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Image of mafia in Leonardo Sciascia's works
Bubela, Petr ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
The aim of my thesis is an analysis of the literary image of mafia in Leonardo Sciascia's works from the 60th and 70th of the 20th century. The literary techniques are documented using the examples of the concrete parts of the text in which the mafia operates. At the same time I give an account of the way Sciascia applies the genre rules of the detective story. The subjects of study represent four novels (The Day of the Owl, To Each His Own, Context and One Way or Another) together with one drama L'onorevole. The above mentioned works have been interpreted and analyzed in terms of the structure, genre and language used while the findings of other scholars focused on Sciascia's work have been taken into account of as well. Mafia constitutes one of the key motifs in the work of Leonardo Sciascia. His reoccurring interest stemmed from the fact that he was well acquainted with the phenomenon, partly due to his personal experience and partly due to his intensive study of the matter. Nevertheless he refused to attribute the existence of the mafia solely to Sicily. In his perception, mafia was only one manifestation of Power on which he critically reflected all his life. Sciascia perceived mafia as a result of the social conditions and as an integral part of the power system of Sicily, or consequently the...
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Luigi Pirandello and Sicily
Sevald, Václav ; Flemrová, Alice (advisor) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
The introduction familiarizes us with basic characteristics of Sicily and its inhabitants, as well as biographical facts regarding Luigi Pirandello's period of life during which he lived there. Subsequently, based on analysis of author's selected writings, we try to find out to what extent has Pirandello's work been influenced by the Sicilian environment, history, inhabitants and veristic themes. For the analysis we will make use of three stories (Certificate, Amphora, Pensaci, Giacomino!), two plays (Il berretto a sonagli, Liolà) and the novel I vecchi e i giovani. In the end we summarize the results of the analysis to determine the degree of influence on Luigi Pirandello's work. Keywords Luigi Pirandello, Sicily, modern italian prose, italian theatre.
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Financial the Administration of Sicily as a Roman Province
Hejda, Josef ; Skřejpek, Michal (advisor) ; Falada, David (referee)
This work aims to introduce readers to the Roman administrative and financial law. These laws are closely related to the development of Roman law as such and with its transformation from a small city-state to the land state and finally to a large empire with vast territories on three continents. During this evolution can be observed increasing demands on the state administration and various approaches to the territorial organization of the empire. On the one hand Italian territory was initially given priority as the Roman homeland, on the other hand were provincial units, which alone have been forced by Rome to pay taxes. In the period of dominate these differences were removed without significant exceptions. Sicily was standing at the birth of the provincial administration. Here arose the first forms of provincial rights and also appeared first practical problems of its active application. This remarkable island was a place where Rome learned to control other nations, province which funded the development of the late Republic of Rome, and a platform which helped to control the Mediterranean.
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Organized crime
Šembera, Kryštof ; Žák, Květoslav (advisor) ; Spirit, Michal (referee)
This work is about organized crime in Italy, specifically in Sicily. It focuses on it's history and connects it with social, economic and political development of the island as well as Italy itself. In the first chapter I describe the birth of organized crime in Sicily and it's evolution until the end of the 20th century. The second chapter is about the people who fought against organized crime throughout the history. In the third chapter I focus on organized crime in the 21st century and I also describe other illegal organizations that are active in Italy today.
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Particularities of the entrepreneurial environment, business a cultural particularities of Sicily
Jan, Tomáš ; Gullová, Soňa (advisor) ; Zamykalová, Miroslava (referee)
The aim of this Bachelor work is to analyse the entrepreneurial environment of Sicily under the influence of local business and cultural particularities. The work is divided into three main parts. The first chapter deals with some geographical features and history of the country. The second chapter is devided into four more parts successively dedicated to economic, political, sociocultural and technological environment. In the last chapter I summarize the advantages and the disadvantages of the local market. Then I put together the results of the questionnaire concerning the companies with a seat in Sicily.
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