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Characteristics of the Potential Winner of Magnesia Litera in the Children's Literature Category
Hronková, Barbora ; Smrčka, Jiří (advisor) ; Laufková, Veronika (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on contemporary Czech literature for children and youth in connection with literary awards. The theoretical part of the thesis presents basic knowledge of these disciplines, which are supplemented by the characteristics of current literary awards appreciating literature for children and youth. The second part of this work provides an analysis of the books awarded by the Magnesia Litera prize in the Children's Literature Category. Content of the analysis provides a description of phenomena common for ten chosen children's books that were awarded in 2011-2020. The work aims to describe the characteristics of a possible winner of the literary award Magnesia Litera. Crucial finding is that in case of category for a book for children and youth professional jury of Magnesia Litera tends to award books that are richly illustrated and written in prose. As for the main character it is usually a boy or not sexually specified character that is getting to know and is building his/its personality in real space-time. KEYWORDS literature for children and youth, literary awards, Magnesia Litera
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Reception of Magnesia Litera in media between 2016 and 2019 and of various winning books
Karešová, Pavla ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Malý, Radek (referee)
This bachelor theses addresses analysis of literary critical response of four titles which were awarded in one of the categories of the competition Magnesia Litera between 2016 and 2019. The thesis aims to present the profile of the competition Magnesia Litera and subsequently to define the term literary criticism, to describe its development and principles. Furthermore, it addresses four specific winning titles which include two awarded for Prose: Do tmy (2015) by Anna Bolavá and Teorie podivnosti (2018) by Pavla Horáková, one awarded for Journalism: Brnox. Průvodce brněnským Bronxem. Akce Kateřiny Šedé (2016) by Kateřina Šedá and one for Children's and Youth Literature: Transport za věčnost (2017) by František Tichý. Each book is then subject of my own interpretation. The thesis then analyses critical reflection of each book within Czech media environment before and after being awarded in Magnesia Litera competition, regards the quantity of response and compares its content; in both cases it also points out whether the literary critical evaluation had been influenced by the award itself.
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Critical reflection of the winners of Jiří Orten Price in the Czech media in 2013 and 2014
Motyčková, Kateřina ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Malý, Radek (referee)
This bachelor thesis is dedicated to Jiří Orten Prize and the awarded poetry collections Výjevy by Ondřej Hanuse and Co s tím by Alžběta Stančáková. The subject of interest is their critical resonance in the Czech media in 2013 a 2014. The theoretical part presents the profile of Jiří Orten Prize, defines the concepts of literary criticism and review and interprets the selected poetry collections in the context of contemporary Czech poetry. The second part maps and then analyzes critical response of the collections in the Czech media in 2013 and 2014. The reviews and critics are from cultural journals, servers and radio station shows. The bachelor thesis also includes the interview with Ondřej Hanus focused on Jiří Orten Prize, contemporary Czech poetry and literary critisicm.
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Significant children's and young adult literature awards (recommended free time activities with a specific title)
ŽIDOŇOVÁ, Lenka
This bachelor thesis maps important children's and youth literary awards and searches for uses of concrete books in leisure time activities. The thesis is seperated into a theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part defines children's and youth literature, describes specifications of these books and their possible uses. Then children's and youth literary awards are analysed and compared. Four concrete title are chosen based on the analysis of awarded titles in the past 5 years: Himálajské pohádky, Proč obrazy nepotřebují názvy, Velké dobrodružství Pepíka Střechy a Julie mezi slovy. These books make a starting point for proposed leisure time activities.
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Impact of literary prizes awarded to the media image of books
Linhart, Jiří ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Halada, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis researches the impact of a literary prize on the media image of the awarded book in 2012. More precisely I pursue these awards and winning titles: Jaroslav Seifert Prize (Vladimír Binar: Číňanova pěna), Jiří Orten Award (Vratislav Maňák: Šaty z igelitu), Josef Škvorecký Award (Kateřina Tučková: Žítkovské bohyně), Magnesia Litera - The Book of the Year (Michal Ajvaz: Lucemburská zahrada). First I analyse the change of the quantity (the number of references and the share within the text), then I focus on the modification of the journalistic assessment of the title (on the scale positive - neutral - negative). In first case I use a quantitative analysis of media content, in the second case I use a comparative semiotic analysis. My sample are these Czech periodicals, in alphabetical order: A2, Aktuálně.cz, Hospodářské noviny, Host, iDnes.cz, Lidové noviny, Literární noviny, Reflex, Respekt, Tvar. The main output is a discovery, how the Czech print and online written media reflect the results of the literary prizes, also I (try to) determine the media power of each award.
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Contemporary British Drama in the View of The Critics' Circle
Vondráková, Adéla ; SCHLEGELOVÁ, Martina (advisor) ; JOBERTOVÁ, Daniela (referee)
The subject of this thesis is the contemporary British drama. Firstly the thesis performs a brief excursion into the context of the origin of the plays. It summarises the basic facts about the British theatre system, the development of British criticism and of the British association of the critics The Critics' Circle. The thesis deals with the plays awarded with The Critics' Circle Theatre Award for the best new play between years 2000 and 2010. These are Blue / Orange by Joe Penhall, Humble Boy Charlotte Jones, The York Realist by Peter Gill, Democracy by Michael Frayn, The History Boys by Alan Bennett, Harvest by Richard Bean, Rock'n'Roll by Tom Stoppard, A Disappearing Number by Simon McBurney and Complicite, August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth, and Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris. Subsequently, based on the overall analysis of all eleven awarded plays the thesis gives the assessment of their common features in terms of dramatic form and also in the terms of theme. Finally it deals with the British as well as Czech critical reflections of the particular plays. It attempts to draw conclusions about the nature of contemporary British drama in relation to the British criticism.
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French literary prizes and their importance for French literary life and for market of the book
ŠIMKOVÁ, Kristýna
The essence of the presented bachelor thesis is adumbration of handover trend in french literary awards, related course of events in the area of media, reaction of the book review and the public to their running. Last but not least short adumbration of their history, which gives the prices their touchmark and they are nationally in the centre of course of events in the cultural circles not only during the joust period. The first part is devoted to the existent french literary awards, their origin and formation on which are these awards focus on. Another two parts communicate interests and information concerning book marketplace in France, book sales rankings and main publishing houses in present France. The last part is mainly devoted to the present and provides view into the course of events around the literary prices for the year 2010. It deals concretely with attitudes of literary criticism, which are abundantly commented by french media. The conclusion summarizes the main points of bachelor thesis which describes this literary event.
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