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Pretext of the Fictional Setting of the novel Sedmikostelí in Prague's New Town
Hrazdírová, Eliška ; Kudlová, Klára (advisor) ; Charypar, Michal (referee)
This thesis aims to analyse the possible forms of the relationship between historical architecture and urban concepts and literary fiction. As a concrete subject for this analysis it chooses the genre of the Gothic novel and its very concrete case, the novel Sedmikostelí (1999) by the Czech writer Miloš Urban. In the individual explanatory and interpretive chapters, he puts two unique ideological concepts in relation to each other. The first is the concept of the New Town of Prague in the thought of its founder, Charles IV. The second is the literary mirroring of this concept and its inspirational role for the fictional New Town in Urban's novel Sedmikostelí and for the central idea of the work, which is the utopian escape from the everyday into the Gothic period with its aesthetic and social ideals and rules. This escape is to enable the re-presentation in the work of the vanished Chapel of Corpus Christi, which in the minds of the novel's characters represents the centre of the space of the so-called Sedmikostelí. This work introduces the history and architecture of the New Town and the symbolic dimension of the urban concept in the thought of Charles IV and reveals step by step the relationship between this concept and the individual buildings, characters, and the ideological basis of Urban's...
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Media perception of Miloš Urban's novels Sedmikostelí a Hastrman
Grim, Jakub ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Malý, Radek (referee)
1 Abstract This bachelor thesis is about two novels by writer Milos Urban - Sedmikostelí and Hastrman, which are from his early work on the turn of the millennium. The thesis also contains an interpretation of these novels, their discrepant genre classification, films, foreign translations or the correlation with the rest of Urban's work. The theoretical part of the thesis also contains a chapter about literary criticism. The second part of the thesis is mainly about media reception of both novels. Selected reviews are from daily newspapers, magazines or special cultural periodicals. During the analysis of reception, there was a focus on parts of the novels which were highlighted or criticized by reviewers. At the end of the thesis, there is also an interview with Milos Urban.
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Reception Story of Novels by Miloš Urban
Budílková, Jitka ; Králíková, Andrea (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
The thesis deals with the author's personality and the novels of Miloš Urban. The aim was to map their existing reception, especially with regard to the development and reflection of author's style and appearance of the narrator. With respect that this is the current author and his work is not yet reflected in a separate monographic material consisted the thesis primarily of review works, both published in the literature review journals and those published by the daily press. Work focused on confrontation the perspective of the reviewers and my own critical reading of the author's novels.
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Historical fiction and post-modernism. View of the older Czech history in the works of Milos Urban
Brožová, Karolína ; Šedivá Koldinská, Marie (advisor) ; Beneš, Zdeněk (referee)
(in English) The aim of this work is especially the post-modern art, its symbols and manifestations. The main area of this research is post-modern literature and effort to concretise post-modern symbols in literature. This work is also trying show the influence of post-modern on historiographical approach. The solution of this work goes from general manifestations of post-modern to particular manifestation in post-modern literature. The main source represented the set of monographs about this theme. The significantly part is about publications of Czech author Milos Urban, and especially the interview of author this thesis with him. On the particular symbols was able to improved, that Milos Urban really writing literature with influence of post-modernism. The post-modern symbols in literature and also the influence of post-modern on historiography were managed to described and instanced.
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The Prose Fiction of Miloš Urban within the Frame of Key Narrative Categories
Koubová, Denisa ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
(in English): The bachelor's diploma thesis deals with the prose fiction of Miloš Urban and aims at a complex interpretation of his work with the help of the key narratives categories. The text of the thesis is based on textual analysis and application of established narrative concepts and categories. Therefore, it covers the categories of the plot, protagonists, space, time and the narrator; each category is first specified in its general terms and then applied to the analysis of specific texts.
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