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Masculinity and its Crisis in the work of E. Hemingway, K. Kesey and Ch. Palahniuk
HOFFMANN, Daniel
The diploma thesis sets out to analyse and compare the portrayal of masculinity and its crisis in the novels The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. Firstly, it defines masculinity as gender and it introduces the fundamental theoretical framework for gender analysis. The thesis focuses on gender and its key aspects, the relation of gender and human physiology, the theories of gender acquisition and the basic perspectives of understanding masculinity. After that, the thesis describes the concepts of hegemonic and toxic masculinity, followed by the debate about masculinity crisis as a political category and individual identity. The literary analysis of each novel introduces the life of the author as well as his literary and historical context. Initially, it analyses each male character separately so that it can later conclusively describe the ten examined key aspects of masculinity and its crisis in the novel. After the analysis of each novel, the thesis presents their comparison put in the historical context.
Representation of mental disorders in early works of Chuck Palahniuk
Konečná, Tereza ; Topolovská, Tereza (advisor) ; Chalupský, Petr (referee)
This thesis is concerned with the ways mental disorders caused by trauma are represented in the novels Fight Club, Invisible Monsters and Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. The theoretical part focuses on introduction of the mental disorders and trauma, while the practical part analyses the individual ways the disorders are presented in the novels.
Elements of Transcendentalism in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club
LIEDERS, Tereza
Transcendentalism, a literary and philosophical movement prominent in the 19th century in the United States of America, significantly influenced some of the subsequent literary movements. Some of the main tenets of Transcendentalism, like the belief in the power of an individual and rejection of authorities and materialism, are prominent in Chuck Palahniuk's novel Fight Club. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the portrayal of these social phenomena in selected Transcendentalist works and in Palahniuk's novel and to propose what could be some of the historical and social changes that influenced their depiction.

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