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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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Gender analysis of chosen novels of Miloš Urban
Husáková, Martina ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis A Gender Analysis of Selected Novels of Miloš Urban researches two concrete literary texts, novels Sedmikostelí and Lord Mord, which are analysed from gender perspective. By using two methods, feminist "resisting reading" and discursive analysis, there are uncovered various ways of female's characters construction, which are put in the social and cultural context. Theoretically the work is patterned on Judith Fetterley's concept, which was created during second wave of feminism, and it is connected to new poststructuralist and deconstructivist approaches. In this theses literature is perceived as space of impressing and encountering different discourses. Senses, categories and relations, incuding gender relations, are deconstructed in this space. This theses's core is the analysis of different categories and forms of femininity, which are reproduced in Urban's texts. It tries to show the possibility to read literary text "against the hair" and to not succumb to its interpellations. In this way it stresses personality of reading individual and his/her ability to complete/reshape text during every single process of reading and to produce new senses and categories. Keywords: feminism, gender analysis, Lord Mord, Sedmikostelí, Urban Miloš, resisting reading, women characters
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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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Gender analysis of chosen novels of Miloš Urban
Husáková, Martina ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis A Gender Analysis of Selected Novels of Miloš Urban researches two concrete literary texts, novels Sedmikostelí and Lord Mord, which are analysed from gender perspective. By using two methods, feminist "resisting reading" and discursive analysis, there are uncovered various ways of female's characters construction, which are put in the social and cultural context. Theoretically the work is patterned on Judith Fetterley's concept, which was created during second wave of feminism, and it is connected to new poststructuralist and deconstructivist approaches. In this theses literature is perceived as space of impressing and encountering different discourses. Senses, categories and relations, incuding gender relations, are deconstructed in this space. This theses's core is the analysis of different categories and forms of femininity, which are reproduced in Urban's texts. It tries to show the possibility to read literary text "against the hair" and to not succumb to its interpellations. In this way it stresses personality of reading individual and his/her ability to complete/reshape text during every single process of reading and to produce new senses and categories. Keywords: feminism, gender analysis, Lord Mord, Sedmikostelí, Urban Miloš, resisting reading, women characters
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