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The comparison of chosen aspects of Kytice by Karel Jaromír Erben and Ballady i romanse by Adam Mickiewicz
Kaiserová, Michaela ; Benešová, Michala (advisor) ; Chmel, Rudolf (referee)
The bacheloral thesis The comparation of the chosen aspects of Kytice by Karel Jaromír Erben and Ballady i romanse by Adam Mickiewicz will in the opening part describe the complex characterization of ballads on the both primary texts. Next will introduce authors and their works. In the following part the bacheloral thesis will focus for example on the comparation of the literary motives, the characterizations of the real and supernatural characters, the concept of the death or the motive of character's transformation. The bacheloral thesis will focus on description of the atmosphere and time, in which the ballads take place. Afterwards the thesis will be concerned for example with the motive of guilt and punishment or the character of women-heroines. Key words Ballad, Kytice, Ballady i romanse, Karel Jaromír Erben, Adam Mickiewicz, supernatural characters, guilt and punishment, transformation of characters, death motive.
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Fatefulness in the Art of Horacio Quiroga's Short Story
Žaludová, Olga ; Housková, Anna (advisor) ; Poláková, Dora (referee)
This master's thesis aims to compare Horacio Quiroga's short story with a general theory of the short story and to juxtapose it with Quiroga's own Ten Rules for the Perfect Storyteller. The first theoretical part looks at the short story from the point of view of literary history with a special focus on the differences between a short story and a novel. It goes on to give a short overview of the literary development in Latin America, outlining specific features of the given area and their influence on Horacio Quiroga's works. A separate chapter covers the Hispanic - American fantasy short story, its general principles and some examples of Horacio Quiroga's works. In the next chapter the paper refers to Quiroga's essays concerning theories of the short story, particularly Ten Rules for the Perfect Storyteller, aiming to introduce the theoretical concept of Quiroga's art of storytelling. Ten Rules for the Perfect Storyteller provides the paper with the background to interpret a number of selected Quiroga's short stories as well as to compare the theories of the short story between Horacio Quiroga and Edgar Allan Poe. Having briefly outlined the context of Quiroga's complete work, the paper identifies the main recurring themes and touches upon Quiroga's character in his short stories set in the...
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Motiv smrti ve vybraných románech Michaela Cunninghama
KOUKLÍKOVÁ, Tereza
The bachelor thesis focuses on expression of the death motif in selected works of the American writer, Michael Cunningham (Specimen Days, The Snow Queen, Flesh and Blood, A Home at the End of the World), it tries to track this motif not only in narratives as such, but also in acting of individual characters. In the above-mentioned novels it explores their approaches to death itself, answers and reactions to it. It maps how the (non)existence of this motif is experienced and dealt with in different points of view, by what means it is used in a specific story line and which of the various shapes it embraces, for example in a figurative conception or in contrast to the opposite, but not separable entity: life.
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Existential topics in the prose of Karl Brand
Vůchová, Kristýna ; Glosíková, Viera (advisor) ; Tvrdík, Milan (referee)
This bachelor's thesis is about a German writing author from Prague, Karl Brand and his work. In the first part of this thesis the author is introduced in the context of his life and his life feeling, which appears in his works. The second part is focused on the interpretation of selected prosaic texts: Der Gute Mensch, Die Rückverwandlung des Gregor Samsa, Der Elende, Der Tod des Michael Peter Gazin, Novelle im Traum, Lou and Krankenhaus- Atmosphäre. A short introduction of the content of these texts is followed by their interpretation. The objective of this thesis is to interpret existential topics in Karl Brand's prose works, due to the critical state of health of the author, the focus is mainly on the death- motive. The death-motive appears in various forms in all selected prose works. Besides the death are Brand's heroes often confronted with illness or solitude. The benefit of this bachelor's thesis is both a clear biography of a less known Prague German author and the interpretation of existential topics in his work, which can be present for the reader even in the 21st century. Keywords Karl Brand, Prague German literature, existential topics, death-topic
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Folk motifs in Bolesław Leśmians poetry
Jilečková, Alžběta ; Benešová, Michala (advisor) ; Kolmanová, Simona (referee)
Bolesław Leśmian is a polish writer active especially at the beginning of the 20th century. His work is hard to be classified and it does not perfectly fit into any particular literature movement. The main theme of this essay is the confrontation of his poetry with folk motives and folkiness in general, due to the fact that it is one of the biggest source of his inspiration. Lésmian often refers to the original and pure human experiences, found in nature and out of his contemporary world. Inspiration from legends, ballads and fairy tales is apparent throughout his work, including his usage of symbols, motives and characters. His language is also apparently inspired by these sources. In my essay, I focus on the analysis of typical characters and symbols that are taken from the folk literature. Moreover, I also focus on author's specific poetics of death and metamorphosis. The final chapter present several specific examples of author's inspiration by folk literature.
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The comparison of short stories by Stefan Grabiński and Edgar Allan Poe
Slováková, Lenka ; Benešová, Michala (advisor) ; Kolmanová, Simona (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis entitled "The comparison of short stories by Stefan Grabiński and Edgar Allan Poe", is to define and compare the themes found in short stories by Stefan Grabiński and Edgar Allan Poe. The first two chapters will focus on the lives of both the authors and the literary genre of horror. The most notable primary texts that serve as the basis of this part are: Tworczość literacka Stefana Grabińskiego (Artur Hutnikiewicz), Cień wielkiej tajemnicy (Marek Adamiec), Edgar Allan Poe (Roger Asselineau) and Rozbité zrcadlo (Martin Hilský). In the analytic part, the chapters will focus mainly on describing the characters considering the influence of their sorroundings and defining the space and time in which the short stories take place with an emphasis on the themes of house and late night. The texts used in this part are: V domě Sáry a jiné povídky (Stefan Grabiński), Jáma a kyvadlo (Edgar Allan Poe) and Povídky (Edgar Allan Poe). The main goal is to compare the attitudes of both authors towards the literary genre of horror, focusing on their use of genre-specific themes and patterns and to find differeces in Grabiński's and Poe's works. 1
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Fatefulness in the Art of Horacio Quiroga's Short Story
Žaludová, Olga ; Housková, Anna (advisor) ; Poláková, Dora (referee)
This master's thesis aims to compare Horacio Quiroga's short story with a general theory of the short story and to juxtapose it with Quiroga's own Ten Rules for the Perfect Storyteller. The first theoretical part looks at the short story from the point of view of literary history with a special focus on the differences between a short story and a novel. It goes on to give a short overview of the literary development in Latin America, outlining specific features of the given area and their influence on Horacio Quiroga's works. A separate chapter covers the Hispanic - American fantasy short story, its general principles and some examples of Horacio Quiroga's works. In the next chapter the paper refers to Quiroga's essays concerning theories of the short story, particularly Ten Rules for the Perfect Storyteller, aiming to introduce the theoretical concept of Quiroga's art of storytelling. Ten Rules for the Perfect Storyteller provides the paper with the background to interpret a number of selected Quiroga's short stories as well as to compare the theories of the short story between Horacio Quiroga and Edgar Allan Poe. Having briefly outlined the context of Quiroga's complete work, the paper identifies the main recurring themes and touches upon Quiroga's character in his short stories set in the...
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The comparison of chosen aspects of Kytice by Karel Jaromír Erben and Ballady i romanse by Adam Mickiewicz
Kaiserová, Michaela ; Benešová, Michala (advisor) ; Chmel, Rudolf (referee)
The bacheloral thesis The comparation of the chosen aspects of Kytice by Karel Jaromír Erben and Ballady i romanse by Adam Mickiewicz will in the opening part describe the complex characterization of ballads on the both primary texts. Next will introduce authors and their works. In the following part the bacheloral thesis will focus for example on the comparation of the literary motives, the characterizations of the real and supernatural characters, the concept of the death or the motive of character's transformation. The bacheloral thesis will focus on description of the atmosphere and time, in which the ballads take place. Afterwards the thesis will be concerned for example with the motive of guilt and punishment or the character of women-heroines. Key words Ballad, Kytice, Ballady i romanse, Karel Jaromír Erben, Adam Mickiewicz, supernatural characters, guilt and punishment, transformation of characters, death motive.
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Motif of Death in Prose of Jaroslav Durych
HRMA, Josef
The following academic work is aimed on the reception of images of death in prose of Jaroslava Durycha in relation poeticses and chosen genre. It will be considered binding on expressionism, baroque idea in the world between the wars, the social novel of inspiration, or Catholic novel end of the 19th century.The work is based mainly on theoretic findings, with which it works onward and shows some practical examples to them, chosen through the punctual analysis of the Durychs texts. The goal of this work is to capture and describe the wide spectrum of various motifs of death in his texts. Of course, the reader will be acquainted with more general information about the texts.
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