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The typology of characters in Isabel Allende's fictional work of The house of the Spirit
Novotná, Tereza ; Poláková, Dora (advisor) ; Housková, Anna (referee)
This thesis analyzes not only the book itself but also the development and transformation of main characters of the novel The House of the Spirits written by Chilean author Isabel Allende. The work deals with an introduction period of the Spanish-American fiction of the twentieth century, with emphasis on magic realism and related spirituality and historical events of the 20th century Chile. The text also focuses on the general theory of characters and plot outlines and structure of the novel. Furthermore, these findings are applied to the fictional character of this work. The conclusion summarizes the results of the investigation carried out and refuted the thesis of literature Isabell Allende. It is concluded that House of the Spirits clearly belongs to the literature of Latin American post - boom and it means much more than just a simple entertaining reading.
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The Return of the Baroque in Hispano-American Novel of the 20th Century - Asturias, Carpentier, Roa Bastos
Doležalová, Barbora ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
The diploma thesis "The Return of the Baroque in Hispano-American Novel of the 20th Century - Asturias, Carpentier, Roa Bastos" examines Baroque motifs and principles in the modern 20th century Hispanic-American novel. It explains how these traits alter in contrast to the historical Baroque, how they are modified or what other functions they acquire. An attempt was made to critically rethink and re-evaluate the literary theories dealing with the reappearance of the Baroque in Hispanic America, as we consider their approach to be generalising and reductive. The interpretative method is based on Josef Vojvodík's Povrch, skrytost a ambivalence and namely how it addresses the manner in which the Baroque, Mannerism and avant-garde relate to one another. A characterisation of the American Baroque as such has been drafted and an attempt to capture the differences between the European Baroque has been made. The essayistic work of Alejo Carpentier is treated with an emphasis on the relationship of the (Neo)Baroque and magic realism. Carpentier wrongly attributes to the continent what he installs through his own optics without realising that such an approach might be itself described as being Baroque. The interpretative part provides a linguistic, thematic and motivic analysis of Baroque traits in a choice...
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Feminism and Mythopoetics in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories and Nights at the Circus
Klepáčková, Michaela ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Higgins, Bernadette (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to present the specific notion of feminism and mythopoetics in the selected works of Angela Carter and demonstrate them on two selected works of Carter's, namely on the collection of re-visited traditional fairy tales The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories and the novel Nights at the Circus. The thesis also deals with chosen features of postmodernism these two works contain. In the first, theoretical part the author and her oeuvre is introduced, followed by the concept of postmodernism and its selected features. The second, practical part is focused on both books' analysis which attempts to establish whether and how the selected works show the features of postmodernism and to which extent it is possible to trace the notions of Carter's feminism and mythopoetics in them.
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Differences in themes in selected works of Contemporary Multicultural British Fiction
Dobešová, Veronika ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
The submitted bachelor thesis deals with postcolonialism, one of the movement within the contemporary British fiction literature. Firstly, the work describes the factual and historical background leading to the establishment of postcolonialism. Subsequently, its charasteric features are demonstrated on works of two postcolonial authors - Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi. The bachelor thesis ends by the comparison of the two authors' points of view on selected themes. Key words: Contemporary British Fiction, Postcolonialism, Hybridity, Magic Realism, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi
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Iraqi exile literature
Klasová, Pamela Markéta ; Ondráš, František (advisor) ; Oliverius, Jaroslav (referee)
This thesis examines the work of the contemporary exilic Iraqi author Ḥasan Blāsim within the framework of magical realism. At the same time it argues for a more formalistic and wider definition of magical realism, which also includes fiction without any supernatural elements. Magical realistic components found in the short story collection Majnūn sāḥat al-ḥurrīya (The Madman of Freedom Square) underline the most important themes in the stories. These are related to the catastrophes that afflicted Iraq and its people in the course of last thirty years. With its emphasis on the documentation of modern Iraqi history dominated by war and exile Blāsim's work belongs to the genre of documentary narrative. The goal of documentary narrative is to contribute to the collective memory of a nation. Despite Blāsim's focus on documenting, magical realism in his work cannot be considered as an attempt to create a parallel cultural world. The supernatural in his stories functions metaphorically and relates exclusively to the real world of war and violence, in which people under heavy circumstances turn into animals, cannibals, which is magical in itself. In addition, Blāsim's work is on a subordinate level discussed from the perspective of postcolonial theory. Postcolonial theory has undergone a complicated...
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Toni Morrison; Magical Realism Serving to Outline Cultural Experience
Hůlková, Kateřina ; Veselá, Pavla (advisor) ; Roraback, Erik Sherman (referee)
Thesis Abstract In my thesis I focus on the application and role of magical realism in Toni Morrison's two novels, Song of Solomon and Beloved. Because the supernatural elements in these two stories serve mainly as catalytic forces that reveal hidden and submerged realities of the characters' lives, my goal was to discuss and determine Morrison's motivations for the use of magical realism, its purpose, and possible final results of the writer's literary effort. I began by analyzing Morrison's own critical work in which she focuses on her position as a writer being confronted with the dehumanized picture of blackness the way it was created by white Americans in order to preserve their own humanity in the wilderness of the New World. As for the literary language, the writer argues that the said point of view and the literary tradition that stems from it offer only two possible approaches: incursive glorification of the minority, or defensive conformity. These nevertheless appear to be metaphorical blind alleys to her attempts, as none has a potential to create an authentic picture of African Americans. A relevant hindering obstacle to mention is that a lot was lost through the process of dehumanization. My attempt was to demonstrate that by the application of magical realism, Morrison tries to re-humanize (to...
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Theatre in Italy in 1920s and 1930s and Massimo Bontempelli
Klesal, Johan ; Christov, Petr (advisor) ; Sieglová, Tereza (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused mainly on the interwar (1918 - 1939) life and work of the Italian writer Massimo Bontempelli (1878 - 1960). The political and social situation in then Italy is described chronologically, together with the brief reference to the art context.. Then the thesis targets the author himself. Its interest concentrates, via Bontempelli's biographical datas, mainly on his dramas with brief information about each of them and also on author's prosaic masterpieces, including the explication of his creative principles. Afterwards the last chapter analyses in details three Bontempelli's dramas with the emphasis on the theoretical knowledge mentioned above.
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Magical realism in literature - typology and interpretation (Márquez, Allende, Bulgakov)
MACKOVÁ, Gabriela
Cílem této bakalářské práce bude typologie magického realismu, a to hlavně ve směru literárním. V rámci teoretické části bude vymezen pojem magický realismus, dále zde budou stanoveny jeho typické znaky a také jeho zařazení do určitého časového období. V teoretické části budou následně představena díla, která jsou v povědomí čtenářů magick-realistická: Sto roků samoty, Dům duchů, Mistr a Markétka, Popraviště, Artefakty a Válka s časem. Část praktická bude orientována na sledování znaků, díky kterým jsou výše zmíněná díla řazena právě k tomuto literárnímu směru. Metodou komparace budou v dílech hledány podobné a rozdílné rysy, a s ohledem k těmto zjištěním, bude v závěru práce objektivní zhodnocení toho, která z těchto děl jsou opravdu magicko-realistická, a která se k magickému realismu přibližují pouze některými prvky.
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P. Coelho and his Alchemist in intercultural communication (A chapter from thematology and reception esthetics)
GRÚZ, Michael
The topic of the bachelor thesis is Paulo Coelho and his Alchemist in intercultural communication (A chapter from thematology and reception esthetics). The thesis deals with analysis of the novel in the background of intercultural communication. Its part will be a research among the readers from which some conclusions about the novel´s effect on them will be made. The output should be an analysis providing new literary and extra-literary connections which are often ignored in traditional reception.
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