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Science Fiction and the Prediction of Technology, Past and Present
Skorobogatova, Margarita ; Sedláček, Pavel (referee) ; Froehling, Kenneth (advisor)
Cílem této bakalářské práce je prozkoumat, zda-li sci-fi dokáže predikovat budoucí vývoj technologií. První kapitola představuje sci-fi spisovatele 19. a 20. století, kteří předpovídali řadu technologických vynálezů vyskytujících se v současnosti. Druhá kapitola se zabývá sci-fi kinematografií, která je popsána a doložena příklady z sci-fi filmů a televizních seriálů. Poslední kapitola je základem různorodých technologických vynálezů současnosti, které jsou popsány a demonstrovány režiséry sci-fi filmů, a považovány za nejvíce pravděpodobné přiklady, které můžou být realizovány v blízké budoucnosti. Závěr popisuje výsledky provedených výzkumů a definuje případný vývoj v budoucnu.
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Community
Matyášová, Hana ; Lungová, Barbora (referee) ; Klímová, Barbora (advisor)
The thesis inspires creation of community of bacteria and people. Selected circle of participants cares for bacterial culture. They create sci-fi stories based on their experience with bacteria. The stories are created during special events. Environment, music, lights and duration of the events set outlines of the stories. Purpose is to raise sensitivity to all critters.
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Translation and study of Crépuscules by Joël Casséus
Štencová, Linda ; Fučíková, Milena (advisor) ; Listíková, Renáta (referee)
This diploma thesis on Commented Translation of Joël Casséus' Crépuscules consists of translation of the first three chapters of the Quebec novel Crépuscules into the Czech language and subsequent expert commentary. This commentary focuses on the analysis of the novel genre that balances science fiction and modern myth, as well as the Christiane Nord analysis of the original text through which it explores external factors such as author, reader, intention, text function or its motive and intra-text factors such as theme and content, composition, nonverbal components, lexicon, syntax, and suprasegmental phenomena. Subsequently, in the commentary, we deal with translation problems, their solutions and applied translation procedures such as transposition, modification, compensation, generalization or specification.
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A Comparison between Science Fiction Works of Arthur C. Clarke and Douglas Adams's Parody of the Genre
HORÁK, Michal
The first purpose of this paper is to define the term of science fiction genre, using literature specialized in the subject and later analyse the theoretical concept of parody in literature. The second part of the paper will consist of brief biographies of both authors (Arthur C. Clarke and Douglas Adams) and an analysis of Clarke's novel series Space Odyssey. The purpose of this paper is a comparison of Clarke's legendary series with Adams' parody of the genre The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by identifying main characters, motifs and symbols, and subsequently compare the settings of both series, character motivations and narrative strategies.
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Steampunk - nový styl designu
Wolná, Eva
This bachelor thesis deals with steampunk a new style of design. The thesis describes the formation a new style and its characteristics. It´s analyses individual furniture, describes the basic types of materials and decorations. The part of the thesis includes the exhibition of selected furniture which is coming from various artists around the world, their typical features and the materials, including the photographs of the furniture.
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Comparison of lives and works of E. A. Poe and Stephen King/ What can make people write horror stories?
Kopečná, Kateřina ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Chalupský, Petr (referee)
The bachelor thesis is concerned with the comparison of lives and works of Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King. In the theoretical part of the thesis the horror genre and its typical features are introduced together with outlining both writers' brief biographies. The main part focuses on the analogies between the authors' lives and similarities in the topics and motifs of their work. Poe and King are world-wide famous horror writers; and besides the obvious similarities, such as the nationality and the choice of genre, there are many parallel events and influences in their lives that might have affected the literary production. The thesis provides a deeper analysis of those facets and it puts them in context with their works. The last part interconnects the findings made throughout and explores the tentative thesis as to whether there can be something that can "make" a person write horror stories.
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Notional ambivalence in the work of Scottish writer Alasdair Gray Translation and stylistic analysis
Zeisek, Adam ; Ženíšek, Jakub (advisor) ; Matuchová, Klára (referee)
This BA thesis is concerned with the translation of A history maker, a novel by Alasdair Gray and interpretation and analyses of the methods of translation which were used. It is divided into two parts. The first one is the translation itself which is the main part. The second part deals with the analyses of the translation and methodology that was applied. It focuses on the translation of Scottish dialect and informal speech. The thesis is predominantly aimed at demonstrating some standard translation approaches and practices, using the chosen textual material.
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Art, architecture and design in the space age
Wollner, Jan ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Hubatová - Vacková, Lada (referee)
Cosmic inspiration influenced huge amount of different artistic material. It was the only one topic, which went through categories such as high art and popular culture, fine and applied arts, all the medias, official and independent production, state ideology and interest of common man. Thesis tries to go through these categories high and low, fine and applied, official and independent. It divils its material into thematic chapters to achieve this goal. First of them Expand your mind deals with projects of visionary architecture, which does not try to create new "cosmic" kapes but expand - with Marshall McLuhan -man's mind and senses. Then Gravitationless state describes petting loose of Earth as principal feeling of space age. Peace and Freedom play role of contradictory ideological terms to fights between politicians, artists and spaceships. How Does Space Look Like is a question for representation of cosmic topics between abstraction and realism ant the last charter Space for Children does not show reduced version of space for children but "adult" ideological construction of connection between the youngest generation and future in space. Individual chapters are preceded by theoretical introductin The World Where We Will Live Tommorow and The Word We Live In. It is a confrontation of...
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Vocabulary of Czech sci-fi short stories
Mráčková, Michaela ; Bozděchová, Ivana (advisor) ; Lehečková, Eva (referee)
The presented Bachelor thesis, Vocabulary of Czech sci-fi short stories, is focused on describing lexicological and morphological means used in a sample of words used in a Czech sci-fi magazine XB-1. The analysed words have been categorized by their terminological, neological, proper noun and slang nature. This served as the basis of structure of this thesis. In the semantic part, this thesis deals with real objects typical for the described literary genre (space travel devices, technical inventions, unusual science fields, etc.) and thus confronts the real and fictional worlds. The thesis summarizes the word-forming means where authors need to create new words for new objects and the thesis describes some of their common trends. Last but not least, this thesis assessed the function of these word-forming means in such a specific literary genre. The analysed expressions (more than 600 entries) are included as a table attachment with notes. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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