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Alois Musil - Czech Orientalist and Publicist
Šajmovičová, Barbora ; Pargač, Jan (advisor) ; Hejzlarová, Tereza (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the academic and popularize activities of Alois Musil Czech Arabist and Orientalist. The first part of thesis outline life of Alois Musil which is the key to understanding his publications, whether academic or purely towards the wider public. Biographical section aims to highlight moments and contemporary context, which led the priest originally from Hana begin the way of life of cartographer, ethnographer and ethnologist of the Middle East, parts of the Maghreb, the Horn of Africa and India, making him an indelible place in the human history and discoveries. The main part of the thesis is the analysis of academic and popularize activities of Alois Musil with special emphasis on the period of his tenure in the Czechoslovakian Radio. This part is divided into three subsections, each of them is separately dedicated to: academic activities, further popularize activities, and lastly works for Czechoslovakian Radio. These parts are based on extensive works of Alois Musil written in Czech and English language and his own lectures recorded for Czechoslovakian Radio after 1930. The main emphasis is placed upon factual, ethnographical and ethnological contribution of Musil's work, especially the popularization texts. Overall analysis is output of the careful research...
Japan in the work of Jan Havlasa
Jirkal, Martin ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The main focus of my bachelor's thesis is a presentation and analysis of the works of a Czech writer Jan Havlasa that thematize Japan. The first chapter serves as an introduction on the life of the author, focusing on the two sojourn in Japan described in his four travelogues. The second chapter consists of a characterization of the body of Havlasa's prose work about Japan. The last chapter is of a purely analytic and interpretive nature and the proses are analyzed from a variety of perspectives (construction of the narrative, the narrator, image of Japan in Havlasa's works and thematization of arts). Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
Brazil seen by the traveller František Čech-Vyšata
Tkadlečková, Věra ; Binková, Simona (advisor) ; Opatrný, Josef (referee)
František Čech-Vyšata (1881-1942) was a Czech traveller and publicist. During his journeys to South America, he realized between years 1914-1917 and 1927-1937 two long-term stays in Brazil. He described his first stay in this country in travelogue V žáru pamp (1927) and another travelogue Středem Jižní Ameriky (1936) he dedicated to his second stay. Particularly in his second travellogue he also gives evidence about Czech compatriot communities in Brazil in between two World wars. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
Alois Musil - Czech Orientalist and Publicist
Šajmovičová, Barbora ; Pargač, Jan (advisor) ; Hejzlarová, Tereza (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the academic and popularize activities of Alois Musil Czech Arabist and Orientalist. The first part of thesis outline life of Alois Musil which is the key to understanding his publications, whether academic or purely towards the wider public. Biographical section aims to highlight moments and contemporary context, which led the priest originally from Hana begin the way of life of cartographer, ethnographer and ethnologist of the Middle East, parts of the Maghreb, the Horn of Africa and India, making him an indelible place in the human history and discoveries. The main part of the thesis is the analysis of academic and popularize activities of Alois Musil with special emphasis on the period of his tenure in the Czechoslovakian Radio. This part is divided into three subsections, each of them is separately dedicated to: academic activities, further popularize activities, and lastly works for Czechoslovakian Radio. These parts are based on extensive works of Alois Musil written in Czech and English language and his own lectures recorded for Czechoslovakian Radio after 1930. The main emphasis is placed upon factual, ethnographical and ethnological contribution of Musil's work, especially the popularization texts. Overall analysis is output of the careful research...
Beauty and ugliness of the savages
Winter, Tomáš
The study deals the descriptions of non-European aboriginal people in the texts of 19th Century with emphasis on using of stereotype categories of beauty and ugliness.

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