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Metamorphoses of Narrator in Novels of Jaromír John
Kleňha, Petr ; Mravcová, Marie (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
Metamorphoses of Narrator in Novels of Jaromír John This diploma paper focuses on the function of the narrator and his various forms in John's prosaic work. It deals with the issue of the construction of the fictional world and how the narrator influences the reader's understanding of the described events. Primarily, we try to compare the narrative categories of the main contemporary concepts as influenced by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Franz Stanzel and Lubomír Doležel. It is our terminology base. Theoretical understanding of the narrator is the basis for the analysis of John's fiction from the aspect of narrative types applied to a selected sample of author's works: the anthology of the tales with war theme Večery na slamníku, novels Moudrý Engelbert, Výbušný zlotvor, Pampovánek, Honda Cibulků; marginally Estét and other works. Concurrently this work aims to describe construction methods that are typical for John's creative style - it is mainly the use of irony, the principle of collage and documentary elements. It shows that the author's work at that time belonged to the experimental stream of Czech prose. Also, we observe the relationship between author's prose work and his aesthetic concept. We hope that we were able to, at least partially, explain the literary style of Jaromir John. His importance and...
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Narrative strategies in the short stories of Raymond Carver
SELNER, Ondřej
The thesis Vypravěčské strategie v povídkách Raymonda Carvera deals with the literary concept of a narrator. It's results - typologically different narrators and their characterizations - are based on reading and analysis of all published Carver's short stories. The thesis is divided into two main parts - into the theoretical part in which we briefly introduce the development and fundamental concepts of narrator in the literary theory (e.g. in concepts of F. K. Stanzel, K. Friedmann, G. Genette, T. Todorov, D. Cohn, S. Chatman, J. Culler, J. H. Miller and W. C. Booth) and into the practical part which analyses and characterizes those narrative strategies and types with the use of previously introduced terms and theories. The result of this thesis is a lucid list of different narrative types in Carver's short stories.
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Representations of "great" (canonically authoritative) texts in contemporary popular culture
PECHOLTOVÁ, Lucie
The thesis focuses on how literary texts of the so called "great tradition" can become parts of contemporary pop culture based on intertextual connections (a wide variety of them from explicit quotation to loose inspiration by the original) with the historical canonical texts, and especially on the changes occurring during such actualization in the narrative categories (storyline, space, time, characters, narrator). The theoretical part defines the concept of adaptation and related terms of intertextuality and intermediality and specifies relevant narrative categories. The analytic part focuses on two literary "giants", William Shakespeare to represent male literary oeuvre and Jane Austen as a representative of female writers' tradition, to show particular narrative modifications by comparing the original versions with their modernized adaptations that function as their pop cultural counterparts.
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Storytelling Actors´ Challenge
Burešová, Eva ; MĚCHÁČEK, Tomáš (advisor) ; TEJNOROVÁ, Petra (referee)
The aim of my thesis is to acquaint the reader with the method of storytelling, which is not well known in the Czech Republic. Throughout the world it is being successfully used in theater, education and dramatherapy. To better understand this method I define the basic features of storytelling, while also defining the differences between storytelling and similar genres such as one-man-shows, monologues or improvisation. The focus of my thesis is the use of storytelling in theater, mainly in acting. This is also manifested in the chapter containing a set of storytelling excercises which I encountered during the rehersals of the První dáma platí, druhá leze z gatí and Všichni Teigeho muži performances. The following comprehensive reflection outlines my own subjective views on both of the performances, the process of developing of the characters in question and the composition of the author's own text. I also attempt to highlight pros and cons of each of the exercises and assess their usefulness to me. I trust that my thesis will draw attention to the benefits of the storytelling method and help raise awareness of this method in the eyes of the public.
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Film interperations of significant works in Czech literature
ŠAUFLEROVÁ, Petra
The aim of this diploma thesis is to discuss film interpretations of major works in Czech literature. At first I discussed with the question of literary work rewritten into a movie, I introduced the basic terminology and analyzed in detail the various elements of literary text. I also mentioned the specifics of literary and cinematic expression, individual adaptation approaches and I briefly stopped by the theory of hot and cold media. The next part of my work is devoted to narrative technologies and the figure of the narrator. There I introduced different opinions of literary theorists on this question. For the practical part of my diploma thesis I chose the representatives of each adaptation approach and then I analyzed them in terms of the credibility of literary text and the figure of the narrator.
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Time and Space in Fantasy
HARŠOVÁ, Pavlína
This work focuses on the representation of the narrative categories of time and space in the fantasy literature's pieces. It delineates the sub-genres of fantasy and describes the particularities of the genre. The prominent pieces of the fantasy genre are used to demonstrate the established knowledge. There is a conclusion of the differences between the representation of the space-time facts in the fantasy genre and the other genres in the final part of the work.
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Fiction Work of Hana Bělohradská Published in the 1960s
HRŮZOVÁ, Šárka
In my bachelor thesis I will deal with works of Hana Bělohradská which were published in the sixties of the twentieth century. In this her early works - Bez krásy, bez límce, Vítr se stočí k jihovýchodu and Poslední večeře I will mainly focus on reflection of displayed reality. I will try this reflection through narratological category of a narrator. I will define this narratological category in theory and then I will try to apply this theoretical knowledge on a narrator in the works of Hana Bělohradská. The important elements of my work will also be chapter which will focus on the personality, life and the benefits of the writer Hana Bělohradská. I will deal especially with the formation of her early poetics and also with the question of blame and offense in her work.
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Narrative Method in Olga Barényi´s Novel Janka
VOLFOVÁ, Eliška
This bachelor thesis deals with narrative strategy in the first Czech Olga Barényi´s novel. Janka, the novel from the early 40´s of the 20th century is still ignored by literary public. This work is trying to change this attitude and to demonstrate why this novel can be attractive for the readers. The aim is to make a detailed analysis of the novel, using mainly narrative methodology and to study which means the author uses in the story and if they are unusual or regularly used in the context of Czech period prose.
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Multimedial Reading-book of Folktales
HORÁKOVÁ, Pavla
The thesis involves the usage and definition of folktale in theory and practice. The thesis consists of theoretic and practical parts. The theoretic part briefly deals with comparative law that used the folktale as one of the suitable material to study. It also compares different attitudes of defining and classifying folktales. Afterwards in the theoretic part there is introduced the influence of folktales on the pre-school and middle-school children. One part is devoted to narratology as a theory of narration and to particular kinds of folktales. The practical part introduces the preparation of worldwide folktale reading-book. It contains the way of selection of the literature, the structure of particular chapters of reading-book and creation of CD. Further there is the chapter Methods of active teaching, where the methods, responding to the trends of nowadays education, are introduced. The practical part ends with two chapters from the prepared reading-book, devoted to Italian and Greece folktales. The chapters fully correspond to the structure of the prepared reading-book. They also contain worksheets using some methods of active teaching.
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