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Milan Kundera's The Joke supervised. Critical reception of the novel in the context of its release and today.
Batistová, Anna ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Jonáková, Anna (referee)
Thesis "Milan Kundera's 'The Joke' supervised. Critical reception of the novel in the context of its release and today" deals with critical reflection of the novel 'The Joke' in the period from the end of the 1960's up to current reviews. The author dedicates first chapters to the cultural and political background of the release. The core of the thesis focuses mostly on critical reception of the novel, which is divided into three historical periods. In the first part of the critical historical analysis and qualitative analysis, the author examines critical acceptance of the novel in the aftermath of its release (1967-1969), in the Czechoslovakian and exiled journals and literary magazines in particular. The second part considers critical reaction to the novel throughout 1970's and 80's, and stresses outcomes of the reception in the sixties, official normalized critical reviews and the acceptance in the exile and samizdat literature as well. Finally, the last part of the thesis offers contemporary critical response to 'The Joke', analyzed on the basis of Czech journals, literary magazines and newly emergent Kundera's monographs and on the basis of French critical reception of the Milan Kundera's collected work in the prestigious La Pléiade Gallimard edition. Summarizing critical reception in each...
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Confrontation of critical receptions of Neruda's and Hálek's poetry
Skalická, Kateřina ; Mocná, Dagmar (advisor) ; Krejčová, Iva (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the critical reception of Neruda's and Hálek's poetry. The first chapter summarizes the existing knowledge of these authors' creations. At first we focused on the typical traits of their generation, and then on the genesis of their writing. Then using specialized literature, we briefly try to interpret their poetry. At the end of this chapter we show how the critical attitudes towards both poets changed over time. The second chapter also serves as a reference frame for the study of contemporary critical reception Neruda's and Hálek's poetry, because it describes the development of Czech literary criticism in the 19th century, especially in its second half, and its leading personalities who influenced the reception of poetic works of these poets. The next part of the thesis analyzes period reviews of Hálek's poetry in detail. Firstly we briefly describe the main features of Hálek's poetry in general, then we expound the characteristics of his collections of poems. Subsequently for each collection of poems, we provide a description of the critiques published. We further analyze these descriptions to obtain a more complete picture of the reception of Hálek's poetry. This method was used for Neruda as well. The penultimate chapter is devoted to Hálek and Neruda in the...
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Milan Kundera's The Joke supervised. Critical reception of the novel in the context of its release and today.
Batistová, Anna ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Jonáková, Anna (referee)
Thesis "Milan Kundera's 'The Joke' supervised. Critical reception of the novel in the context of its release and today" deals with critical reflection of the novel 'The Joke' in the period from the end of the 1960's up to current reviews. The author dedicates first chapters to the cultural and political background of the release. The core of the thesis focuses mostly on critical reception of the novel, which is divided into three historical periods. In the first part of the critical historical analysis and qualitative analysis, the author examines critical acceptance of the novel in the aftermath of its release (1967-1969), in the Czechoslovakian and exiled journals and literary magazines in particular. The second part considers critical reaction to the novel throughout 1970's and 80's, and stresses outcomes of the reception in the sixties, official normalized critical reviews and the acceptance in the exile and samizdat literature as well. Finally, the last part of the thesis offers contemporary critical response to 'The Joke', analyzed on the basis of Czech journals, literary magazines and newly emergent Kundera's monographs and on the basis of French critical reception of the Milan Kundera's collected work in the prestigious La Pléiade Gallimard edition. Summarizing critical reception in each...
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"The end of the Nylon age" novella from the year 1950 and its critical edition
Poledňáková, Barbora ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the novella The end of the nylon age written by Josef Škvorecký in 1950. It explores the text from a literary historical, literary theoretical and literary "practical", editorial point of view. After the introduction of author's work in necessary period and factual context the thesis focuses on the iterpretation of the novella, its narrative situation and the resulting structure of the text. The thesis then deals with dialogues and dialogic characteristics of the novella. The closing part pays attention to the textological issues - creating of an annotation system to the book. The novella is being related to other artist's work within each theme throughout the entire thesis.
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The reception and influence of fin de siécle Scandinavian literature in Czechia
Thál, Jonáš ; Humpál, Martin (advisor) ; Hartlová, Dagmar (referee)
This thesis deals with reception of Scandinavian decadent literature in the Czech literary milieu on the background of European culture and philosophy in the late 19th century, the cultural homogeneity of European fin-de-siècle literature being stressed. The Scandinavian literature is in this thesis recognized to be an element of importance for the Czech periodicals (the main emphasis is placed on the periodical Moderní revue) as well as publishing houses. The thesis deals more thoroughly with Scandinavian men of letters such as Ola Hansson, August Strindberg, Georg Brandes, Herman Bang, Arne Garborg and considers their impact on the Czech literary ground. The personal contact amongst the European literary personas of the decadent epoch is of certain importance to the thesis.
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Confrontation of critical receptions of Neruda's and Halek's poetry
Skalická, Kateřina ; Mocná, Dagmar (advisor) ; Hrabáková, Jaroslava (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the critical reception of Neruda's and Hálek's poetry. The first chapter summarizes the existing knowledge of these authors's creations. At first we focused on the typical traits of their generation, and then on the genesis of their writing. Then using specialized literature, we briefly try to interpret their poetry. At the end of this chapter we show how the critical attitudes towards both poets changed over time. The next part of the thesis analyzes period reviews of Hálek's poetry in detail. Firstly we briefly describe the main features of Hálek's poetry in general, then we expound on the characteristics of his collections of poems. Subsequently for each collection of poems, we provide a description of the critiques published. We further analyze these descriptions to obtain a more complete picture of the reception of Halek's poetry. This method was used for Neruda as well. The last chapter provides a comparison of the critical reception of Hálek's and Neruda's poetry from their time period. Afterwards these findings were compared with knowledge from specialized literature from later time periods.
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Milan Kundera's The Joke supervised. Critical reception of the novel in the context of its release and today
Baumová, Anna ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee)
Diploma thesis "Milan Kundera's 'The Joke' supervised. Critical reception of the novel in the context of its release and today" deals with critical reflection of the novel 'The Joke' in the period from the end of the 1960's up to current reviews. The author dedicates first chapters to the cultural and political background of the release. The core of the thesis focuses mostly on critical reception of the novel, which is divided into three historical periods. In the first part of the critical historical analysis and qualitative analysis, the author examines critical acceptance of the novel in the aftermath of its release (1967- 1969), in the Czechoslovakian and exiled journals and literary magazines in particular. The second part considers critical reaction to the novel throughout 1970's and 80's, and stresses outcomes of the reception in the sixties, official normalized critical reviews and the acceptance in the exile and samizdat literature as well. Finally, the last part of the thesis offers contemporary critical response to 'The Joke', analyzed on the basis of journals, literary magazines and newly emergent Kundera's monographs. Summarizing critical reception in each period, historical context is of primary importance to a profound understanding of the topic. The aim of the thesis is to find out...
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