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Katharsis in Greek tragedy
Duchek, Libor ; Fischerová, Sylva (advisor) ; Kuťáková, Eva (referee)
This paper is focused on the concept of catharsis in classic Greek tragedy. In the first part, it traces historical context of this term particularly trough the work of Plato; and later, the main effort is devoted to Aristotle. It looks closely in Aristotle's Poetics and Politics, which are the only works where he mentions catharsis. After research of the Aristotle's texts, the study presents variety of interpretations that have arisen over centuries, examines them and derives an elementary understanding of catharsis. The second part of this work tries to trace catharsis in a sample of preserved tragedies of main Greek dramatists. It investigates tragic characters, plot and tragic emotions (i.e. pity and fear). The scope is to compare the Aristotle's theory and practice of dramatists, who lived one century before the theory had rised. Last but not least the study concludes by bringing forward an evaluation of this approach to the theory of Aristotelian catharsis.
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Poems on walls. Poetry in public space
Chlumová, Jitka ; Krol, Ellen Jacoba (advisor) ; Sedláčková, Lucie (referee)
In the last years placing of poems in public space has become popular in the Netherlands. The poems are to be found in the cities, mainly on the walls and in the pavements, as well as in the nature. They are specific form of poetry which was not described thoroughly so far. This thesis describes the phenomenon (for which the term wallpoems is used) from three different points of view: it is poetical object by itself, part of the city as a social space and part of literature. (1) The wallpoem is poetical object in which the interaction is very strong between the text and the medium. The interpretation of the poem is strongly influenced by used material (bricks, stone, glas, metal), typography and location (wall, pavement, nature). The location has own social cultural context that influences the perception. Thanks to the unusual placing outside of any book the poems can be seen by another public. Very important is for the reader the surprise and unexpectedness of such a meeting with poetry. (2) The wallpoem is part of the city space. The most poems are part of organised projects which also influences their perception. Some of them have common theme or background idea given by the initiators. These projects can represent particular aspects of the city or create an image of it. Such image is meant as...
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Comics studies. Potentials and perspectives
Kořínek, Pavel ; Jareš, Michal ; Foret, M. ; Prokúpek, T.
options and prospects presents texts based on working versions that were read out at the colloquium of the same name in 2011 in Olomouc. Thus a broad range of various subjects with different research approaches is represented, from historicizing excursions and individual schools, traditions and phenomena to interpretational insights into the possibilities of analysing comics material and its features, or theorizing contributions on problems of definition and methodology, to texts on individual “applied” views of work with comics in various fields. Hence to summarize, the publication presents selected perspectives from comics studies (mediological, semiotic, literary studies, narratological, historical, sociological, anthropological, translatological and pedagogical) and thus perhaps has the potential to become a 'new start' in domestic comicsological research, which on a world scale has been a dynamically developing humanities and social science field over the last few years. The attached poll then expands on papers and studies primarily from domestic researchers to include the reflections of comics studies from elsewhere. A set of archive materials then collects and for the first time entirely reprints several difficult-to-find picture series from the domestic tradition of this medium.
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