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Czech and French Media Response and Critical Reception of Milan Kundera's Novel Ignorance
Hávová, Kristýna ; Malý, Radek (advisor) ; Čeňková, Jana (referee)
This thesis deals with Milan Kundera's novel Ignorance and its Czech and French media response and critical reception. The first part of the thesis provides a theoretical anchor for the analyzed texts. Therefore, it first defines the terms literary criticism and review, then offers a biographical context of Milan Kundera's work, which is divided into Czech, French and later period in the new millennium, and also introduces and interprets the book Ignorance. Then, through the characterization of the French and Czech media, divided into cultural and literary, news and opinion, and in the case of the French ones, also regional media, on which the examined response is based, it moves on to the analysis of the texts. The thesis aims to map, analyze, evaluate and compare the media-critical reception of the novel in the Czech Republic and France. The main questions the thesis seeks to answer are therefore: How is the novel Ignorance perceived and evaluated by French and Czech critics? In what aspects do the responses differ or coincide in both countries? Since the book, although written in French, was first published in Spain in 2000, then in France three years later in the spring of 2003, and in Czech translation only at the end of 2021, attention will also be paid to the possible influence that the time...
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Comparison of the framing of the Paris Agreement in French journals Le Monde and Ouest-France in 2015 and 2016
Jiráčková, Magdaléna ; Matějka, Ondřej (advisor) ; Tomalová, Eliška (referee)
The Paris Agreement is one of the most important international agreements concerning environmental issues of the world. It aims to keep global warming within a safe range, primarily by reducing national greenhouse gas emissions. The Paris Agreement was adopted at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Paris in December 2015, and it came into force less than a year later. The agreement has received media attention in various countries, including France. Moreover, French politicians saw the Paris Agreement as a success of French diplomacy. The thesis is based on framing theory and uses the method of qualitative content analysis to find and name frames found in articles in the French regional daily Ouest-France and the national daily Le Monde, and then to compare them. The work focuses on the period of one year since the adoption of the agreement, specifically covering the period between 13 December 2015 and 13 December 2016 inclusive. The two selected newspapers contain the same seven frames (the important but insufficient agreement frame, the doom frame, the responsibility of all countries frame, the responsibility of France frame, the economic consequences frame, the intra-state conflict frame, and the inter-state conflict frame, with Ouest-France additionally containing the...
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