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Comparative analysis: Virginia Woolf Mrs.Dalloway and Michael Cunningham Hours
Procházková, Lucie ; Kubíček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee)
Adeline Virginia Woolf ( 25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernist of the first half of the twentieth century. In 1925 she wrote her best-known novel. This novel details one day in June of 1923 in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, who organizes a party for his husband and her friends. The second plane is the story of a war hero's Septum Smith, who is haunted by the consequences of the horrific events in the form of insanity, even after five years from the end of the conflict. Although these two characters never meet, their lives are linked to mental basis. Thanks to Septum's suicide occurs reflection of Clarissa Dalloway and "fusion" of the two characters. Woolf does not put emphasis on the story, but to capture a fleeting moment of time, which leads to death. Literary constructs in the form of the characters are carriers of many existential themes such as death, conventions, elusiveness time. Woolf offers readers the technique of stream of consciousness and the technique of monitoring characters and events from multiple perspectives. The result is a characteristic of the characters through the other characters and the internal monologues of the characters themselves. The novels of Virginia Woolf assume a perceptive reader, educated, having an overview of...
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Motiv smrti ve vybraných románech Michaela Cunninghama
KOUKLÍKOVÁ, Tereza
The bachelor thesis focuses on expression of the death motif in selected works of the American writer, Michael Cunningham (Specimen Days, The Snow Queen, Flesh and Blood, A Home at the End of the World), it tries to track this motif not only in narratives as such, but also in acting of individual characters. In the above-mentioned novels it explores their approaches to death itself, answers and reactions to it. It maps how the (non)existence of this motif is experienced and dealt with in different points of view, by what means it is used in a specific story line and which of the various shapes it embraces, for example in a figurative conception or in contrast to the opposite, but not separable entity: life.
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Comparative analysis: Virginia Woolf Mrs.Dalloway and Michael Cunningham Hours
Procházková, Lucie ; Kubíček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee)
Adeline Virginia Woolf ( 25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernist of the first half of the twentieth century. In 1925 she wrote her best-known novel. This novel details one day in June of 1923 in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, who organizes a party for his husband and her friends. The second plane is the story of a war hero's Septum Smith, who is haunted by the consequences of the horrific events in the form of insanity, even after five years from the end of the conflict. Although these two characters never meet, their lives are linked to mental basis. Thanks to Septum's suicide occurs reflection of Clarissa Dalloway and "fusion" of the two characters. Woolf does not put emphasis on the story, but to capture a fleeting moment of time, which leads to death. Literary constructs in the form of the characters are carriers of many existential themes such as death, conventions, elusiveness time. Woolf offers readers the technique of stream of consciousness and the technique of monitoring characters and events from multiple perspectives. The result is a characteristic of the characters through the other characters and the internal monologues of the characters themselves. The novels of Virginia Woolf assume a perceptive reader, educated, having an overview of...
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The Theme of (Homo)Sexuality in the fiction of Michael Cunningham
Bárta, Pavel ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
This bachelor thesis, The Theme of (Homo)Sexuality in the Fiction of Michael Cunningham, focuses on the approach to homosexuality in the United States of America and its position in American literature, particularly in the fiction of Michael Cunningham. The major part of the thesis deals with the theme of sexuality in three of Cunningham's novels, A Home at the End of the World, The Hours and By Nightfall, its impact on the protagonists and provides comparison among them. Key words Michael Cunningham, gay literature, sexuality, homosexuality, homoeroticism, AIDS, interpersonal relationships
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