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The poet’s window into time. Boredom as a suppressed agent of the artistic maturation of Jaroslav Vrchlický
Hrdina, Martin
The work focuses on the circumstances of the time that poet and translator Jaroslav Vrchlický spent in Italy in the summer of 1875. Based on Vrchlický’s journal entries, correspondence and literary works of the time (especially unpublished poems Spleen and Ideal), the author considers the fundamental role of boredom at a time when Vrchlický was coming of age as a person and a creator. He focuses especially on the period during the formulation of the well-known program of the epic, which was the main artistic output of his stay in Italy. With support from Simmel’s interpretation of the work of Arthur Schopenhauer whose pessimistic view of the world Vrchlický rejected, Vrchlický’s epic gesture appears to be a possible method for overcoming melancholy, which he faced as a modern person.
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Dazzled by the Hellenic Sun: Reception of the Classical Antiquality in the Czech Literature Between 1880 and 1910
Čadková, Daniela ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Stehlíková, Eva (referee) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
The theme of the dissertation is the reception of the Classical Antiquity in the Czech Literature between 1880 and 1910. The aim was to analyse the ways in which Czech culture related to the Classical Antiquity in the period of increased concern with Classical topics, motifs and forms. The first, largest part, methodologically inspired by the demythicizing perspective of Vladimír Macura and Jiří Rak, concerns with stereotypical views of the Classical Antiquity particularly prominent in the contemporary discourse: the antithetical image of noble Greece and corrupted Rome, the topos of bright Hellenic Sun and clear Sky, the ideology behind the common opinion that Ancient sculptures were all white (and the reactions to the discovery that they were, in fact, polychrome), the topos of a Greek athletic body and its employment in the policy of the Czech sports movement 'Sokol' (Falcon), and last but not least the topos of a man unspoilt by civilization and living in accordance with the Nature. Separate chapters are also devoted to two then important intermediaries of reception, grammar schools and translation. In the second part, attention is drawn to the representation of the Classical Antiquity in dramatic plays by Jaroslav Vrchlický, especially the dramatic trilogy Hippodamie, and their reception in...
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Short Prose of Jaroslav Vrchlický
Hubáček, Jiří ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Topor, Michal (referee)
This bachelor thesis aims to offer a complex approach to the short prose of Jaroslav Vrchlický. It proceeds chronologically and pays attention to the particular collections of stories as well as to the items of prose printet individually or ones in manuscript form; as an appendix to the stories, the thesis analyses feuilletons and memories. Yet it is focused primarily on the history of literature, it deals mainly with the genesis of the texts, their editions and critical reception and it examines their intertextual relations to the classical works of the world literature. On the basis of my analysis of individual stories, it strives to grasp the basic enveloping of Vrchlický as a novelist in separate periods of his creative course and hereby, to present the whole of his prosaic works as a dynamically changing and developing part of his entire writing.
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Poetic School of J. Vrchlický
SLÁMOVÁ, Kateřina
The aim is to create a basic imagination about the poetic school of J. Vrchlicky on the basic of selected literary historical synthesis. Subsequently my task is to create a database of information about book publications which belong to this field. The aim of the work is to find a representative sample of book publications which comment Jaroslav Vrchlicky´s work and his after epigones. Therefore, I focus on authors who belong into the enclave Poetry School of Jaroslav Vrchlicky. I chronologically sort and briefly characterize these poets and writers.
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The Czech Literary Naturalism
USTOHALOVÁ, Soňa
I will follow the theoretical and critical discourse, related to establishing of Czech literary naturalism. My sources will be both book editions (essays from the volumes "Lehký harcovník", or "O národní literaturu", made available by the Melantrich publishing company) and journalistic production. Among the personalities she will focus on F. Schulz and V. Mrštík, possibly on other authors according to the primary heuristics results. The idea about general extension of naturalism will be provided by relevant syntheses or partial monographs (ADČL III; Haman: Trvání v proměně; Janáčková: Česká literatura na přelomu století; Český román na sklonku 19. století).
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Jaroslav Vrchlickýs Translations from the French and Italy Literature.
VICIÁNOVÁ, Klára
In my master's thesis I inquire into Jaroslav Vrchlický's translation of French poetry. In five chapters I analyse Vrchlický's translations of the poems by the Parnasists José-Maria de Heredia, Sully Prudhomme, Leconte de Lisle and François Coppée; the fifth is the romantic author Victor Hugo. The analyses are preceded by a bibliographic-descriptive part, an overview of Vrchlický's studies related to the poet in question and reception of Vrchlický's translations in contemporary periodicals. The summarizing chapters describe Vrchlický's translation method and the relationship of F. X. Šalda as the leading figure of contemporary literary criticism to Jaroslav Vrchlický. A substantial part of the work is a bibliographical index of Vrchlický's translations of French poetry published in books and journals as well as a list of his critical studies. As information source we have used the digitalized card catalogue Retrobi available online at the website of the Institute of Czech Literature, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
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The Novels of Jaroslav Vrchlický
JOHNOVÁ, Petra
This thesis focuses on the prosaic writing of Jaroslav Vrchlický. In the first part it monitors an extension of the reception in these novels (it analyzes their editions with the help of the database Caslin). It also observes character of the period reception from the first publication of the corresponding titles up to the year 1918 (there is a support of the database Retrobi and Lexikon české literatury). The second part of the thesis analyzes the Vrchlický's novels according to methods of naratology and literary thematology. The third part of this writing focuses on a genre and a themed characteristic of the Vrchlický's novels in the context of that period.
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The J. Rokyta´s Poetry
NEUBERGOVÁ, Daniela
The work involves personality, which in today's times has completely disappeared from the textbooks of Czech literature, although it is notable not only for its literary production, but also by growing Slavic relations and interests of Slavic culture. The person is Adolf Černý alias Jan Rokyta. The first part is devoted to his life and interests, not only in literature. The following is a list of book publication of his works and related contemporary criticism. Furthermore there is proposed periodization of artist's creative period. A substantial part of the work are parts serving interpretation of the poetry of Jan Rokyta. For better understanding of historical context there is a comparison with a great person of czech poetry Jaroslav Vrchlický.
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Key thems of Parnasist and Decadent lyric poetry in the Czech Literature
ROLNÍKOVÁ, Eliška
The subject of this thesis is a characterisation of key motivic units in lyrical works of Jaroslav Vrchlický and Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic, thus it explores Czech parnassian and decadent poetry of the end of 19th century. It observes and traces literal, esthetical and thought shifts of both authors from the aspect of various motives usage. The thesis is divided into five chapters, each of them dealing with one specific motivic unit. The chapters are: 1. Motives of woman, body and sexuality. 2. Motives of dream, imaginary and escape. 3. Motives of dying, disease and decay. 4. Motives of depressiveness, grief, bitterness and vanity. 5. Motives of nature and landscape. Each chapter compares these motives, examines their usage by both authors and looks at how their form and expression undergo a process of certain changes. It also focuses on those motives that appear as completely new elements in their poetry. The conclusion provides with brief summaries of all chapters and a short look through frequency word dictionary of relevant volumes of poems.
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