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Role of Fantastic Themes in Selected Shorter Prose by Julius Zeyer
Neradová, Eliška ; Blinková Pelánová, Eva (advisor) ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the analysis of three texts by Julius Zeyer (Dům U tonoucí hvězdy, Na pomezí cizích světů, Miss Olympia). The work aims to analyze and interpret the motifs in connection with the fantastic genre of literature. The motifs include for example figures of women and a motif of a star or fire. The thesis also deals with the subject of the literary context of the author and the classification of his work in terms of a literary movement. The interpretation of Zeyer's texts is based on Tzvetan Todorov's fantasy concept presented in the study The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre. KEYWORDS Julius Zeyer, fantastic, Dům U tonoucí hvězdy, Na pomezí cizích světů, Miss Olympia, Tzvetan Todorov
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The genre of fairy tales in Julius Zeyer's work
MALÁ, Nikola
This diploma thesis deals with the specific process of adaptation of folklore topic in the work of Julius Zeyer. The thesis is divided into the explanatory part and the practical part. The theoretical part is focused on the history and development of the fairy tale genre, its main representatives, characteristic features, classification possibilities and also the history of folkloristics. There is also included is a chapter on the lumírovci movement and the life and work of Julius Zeyer. The practical part describes the plot of selected works, which are then analyzed on the basis of theories of C. G. Jung, Marie-Louis von Franz and V. J. Propp that are explained in the explanatory section. Finally, every work is categorized according to Toman, Šmahelová and Propp classifications.
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Short exotic stories in work of Julius Zeyer
Macháčková, Pavla ; Hrabáková, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Stejskalová, Anna (referee)
Work "Short exotic stories in work of Julius Zeyer" deals with five selected Zeyer's works that are set in the exotic land of India and Far East. One prose is associated with India, the other four with China and Japan. The works are a result of careful collecting, translating and creative work of Julius Zeyer. The present diploma thesis outlined in brief the life of Julius Zeyer and its role in the contemporary literature. It characterized Zeyer's interest in the exotic motives and way he followed them. The diploma thesis also considered form of the Zeyer's prose. The present work examined characteristics of plot and main characters and as well as the representation of the exotic places. It showed that the narrative places take part in creating the atmosphere that corresponds to the current experience of the characters. The nature of the characters is revealed against the background of the plot. Zeyer elaborated mutual connection between the characters and areas. Part of the interpretation was in each case devoted to the overall Zeyer's evocation of India, China and Japan and its artistic depth.
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The Eternal Boyhood of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic
Kolařík, Karel ; Vojtěch, Daniel (advisor) ; Lishaugen, Roar (referee) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
The thesis attempts to describe the life and work of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic through an analysis of his lifestyle, i.e. the way in which he organized, embellished and individualized his life. Karásek sought to shape his existence as an artwork, in accordance with the inspirational concepts of the contemporary and antecedent thinkers and artists (e.g. Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater and Maurice Maeterlinck). He accented its integrity and orientation towards beauty. In accord with his aesthetic vision (and his literary work) Karásek conditioned beauty with sadness and pain and attempted to emphasize melancholic beauty, unity in disunion. For that purpose he would accentuate particularly the disintegrative, critical elements, evoking the impression of unsuccessful, self-destructive endeavor to reach life's high ideal. This corresponded with his tragic concept of the artist immolating himself for his Art. I approach Karásek's lifestyle through the use of the terms youth and (eternal) boyhood, which Karásek himself employed as symbols of mournfully beautiful existence in his literary work. I define a youth - in accordance with the romantic and symbolist interpretation - as a person at odds with reality (contemporary truths, customs and rules), a solitary, unique being, trying to construct a new world - only...
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Far East Motifs in the Works of Selected Authors at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century
Světlíková, Jana ; Brožová, Věra (advisor) ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee)
This dissertation Far East Motifs in the Works of Selected Authors at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century deals with works written by Julius Zeyer, Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic and Josef (Joe) Hloucha. The thesis analyses selected works from the viewpoint of typical motifs and themes. It pursues to depict different authorial images of Far East and to find out why are these authors so fascinated by this region. Some motifs are characteristic for all the authors: love; art and beauty; fairy tale and dream. Spirituality is characteristic for Julius Zeyer - his "renewed pictures" direct the reader to think about the values that are worth searching - regardless where or when we live. Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic uses Far East surrounding to run away from monotonous reality. In his play Dream of the Empire of Beauty he wants to create a symbol depicting his own soul. His typical motifs are secret and individuality. Hloucha's Far East image is based on real facts. Cognitive function is many times more significant than aesthetic. His typical motif is Europeanism. Among others he is the only one who confronts the Asian surrounding with the European. In his works he often uses the techniques of lowbrow literature - especially love novel - that possibly caused his enormous popularity among female readers of his time....
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Vlasta and Libuše. The mythic representations of woman in the epics of Julius Zeyer
Schödelbauerová, Viktorie ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
The bachelor thesis is devoted to chosen women's heroines of the circle of epic poems Vyšehrad by Julius Zeyer, and it tries with help of selected definitions of myth and pathos to cover principals, that are expressed through these characters and ways, by which are their roles constructed. After in the introductory chapter we familiarize with main features of myth and a role of pathos and in short we take a look of the author's life, the formation of the cycle itself, context in which the writing fits thematically and period reception, in the principal part of the thesis we firstly focus on issues of women's characters in Julius Zeyer's writing in general, and subsequently in analysis of text on description and explanation Vlasta and Libuše specifically. In comparison of these two heroines has been managed to rehabilitate the character of Vlasta, whose traditional interpretation of the evil character is not valid in the case of Zeyer's epic. The meaning of this thesis primarily consists in an interest of exploration fewer usual types of women's characters in Czech literature, that means a woman - a warrior and also in possibility to consult the phenomenon of the princess Libuše from the different perspective.
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Female characters in early proses of Julius Zeyer
Kumžáková, Karolína ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Činátlová, Blanka (referee)
(in English): This bachelor thesis looks at female characters in early novels of Julius Zeyer. The main theme of the thesis is Šalda's statement that highlights a strong position of women in Zeyer's novel and devides female characters into angels and hellcats. The aim of the thesis is to verify this division in following novels: Ondřej Černyšev, Román o věrném přátelství Amise a Amila and Gompači and Komurasaki. The analysis of novels focuses on differences in artistic interpretation of female and male characters, reflecting the polarity of the woman as angel and the woman as devil, and explores the position of female characters in all their subtleties.
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Fairy Tale Drama around the turn of the 19th and the 20th century
Šestáková, Kristýna ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is an attempt to define and characterize the genre of fairy tale drama and also by analysing individual plays we outline the changes within the entire genre. When defining the term of fairy tale drama, we highlight mainly the elements that show the difference between the fairy tale drama and the fairy story. As to the changes within the genre we will first focus on authors from other countries and then we will deal with Czech authors. To characterize the changes within the genre in Bohemia, we have selected seven texts in which we will observe the circumstances leading to their conception and creation, as well as the composition, reception, motives, the way of describing space-time and the psychology of the characters featured.
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From sources to the relationship of Czech writers to Russia in second half of the 19th century: Julius Zeyer and Josef Holeček
Hrebiková, Anežka ; Hojda, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Doubek, Vratislav (referee)
The aim of this Bachelor's work is to describe the relationship of two prominent Czech writers to russian tsarist empire in second half of the nineteenth century on the basis of their visits in Russia. The author of the Bachelor'work focuses on the work with the primary sources, placed in the Památník národního písemnictví (correspondence in the fund Julius Zeyer, Josef Holeček and in the funds of recipients of correspondence) and with the secondary sources, mainly of literary character (Ondřej Černyšev by Zeyer, Zájezd na Rus and Ruskočeské kapitoly by Holeček). On the basis of analysis of the sources - with the emphasis on the sources of the primary character (correpondence) - the author focuses on personal experiences of both writing figures, their engagement in Russia and the opinion on local political events. It will be also take account on the way, how was the attitude of the writers to tsarist empire reflected in their own writings.
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