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Motives and forms of travelling
Fraňková, Soňa ; Půtová, Barbora (referee) ; Junek, Marek (referee)
Motives and forms of travelling, Fraňková Soňa The author's work analyzes three basic motives that lead to travel and subsequently introduces in more detail travel's four institutionalized forms and how these forms are realized. The three basic motives discussed by the author include; escape, instruction, and necessity. In addition, the forms are introduced as ways to implement these themes. The first distinctive modes of travel is described as pilgriming and trips for sacredness. The second form is romantic meandering which is the conscious act of leaving one's home in Romantic times. The third form discussed is wandering which through one realizes escape, instruction, and necessity. Finally, the last option is hiking. All these forms are presented in terms of theirhistorical development and specifics that are inherent within. An integral part of the work is also the comparison of these forms with an emphasis on their interaction.
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Across the Line of the World: On Poetics of Being on the Road in the Central European Novel of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Knotová, Tereza ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
Thesis Across the Line of the World: On Poetics of Being on the Road in the Central and East European Novel of the second half of the Twentieth Century dissert on the phenomen of vagabondism in a given space and time. Analysis of eight texts (Albahari, Bachmannová, Bernhard, Bondy, Chwin, Miłosz, Müllerová, Sebald, Velikić) through the concept of smooth and striated space (Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari), and Milan Balaban's exegesis on the Biblical Exodus shows four basic principals of this rather intensive than extensive vagabondism: nothingness, sense for smoothness, melancholy and fragmentarization. Central and East European Novel Vagabondism Smooth and striated space (Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari) Exodus (Milan Balabán) Melancholy Nothingness Sense for smoothness Fragmentarization
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Media reception of Jack Kerouac's writings in Czech periodicals
Šafářová, Andrea ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Novotný, David Jan (referee)
The bachelor thesis Media reception of Jack Kerouac's writings in Czech periodicals aims to chart the Czech media's interest in the work of Jack Kerouac and analyze the critical acclaim of his work. There were chosen especially the reviews and the epilogues for analysis. The goal of this bachelor thesis is reached by the qualitative analysis using the semiotic analysis at the same time. The chapter dealing with life and period historical and literary context precedes the own comparison of the period experts' response - an acquaintance with the author's personality helps to understand the connections of the media reception of his work. Five books by Jack Kerouac were chosen for the analysis in order to - the individual chosen works were written in all decades in which the writer has written actively; the change of the critics' stances to his books from his early career to his creative block is apparent in the text. This bachelor thesis is based mainly on the literary critics' reviews, it draws information from the critical biography Memory Babe written by Gerald Nicosia as well as from the interview with forty-five-year-old Jack Kerouac by the poet Ted Berrigan, published as The Interview with Jack Kerouac for Paris Review.
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Motives and forms of travelling
Fraňková, Soňa ; Půtová, Barbora (referee) ; Junek, Marek (referee)
Motives and forms of travelling, Fraňková Soňa The author's work analyzes three basic motives that lead to travel and subsequently introduces in more detail travel's four institutionalized forms and how these forms are realized. The three basic motives discussed by the author include; escape, instruction, and necessity. In addition, the forms are introduced as ways to implement these themes. The first distinctive modes of travel is described as pilgriming and trips for sacredness. The second form is romantic meandering which is the conscious act of leaving one's home in Romantic times. The third form discussed is wandering which through one realizes escape, instruction, and necessity. Finally, the last option is hiking. All these forms are presented in terms of theirhistorical development and specifics that are inherent within. An integral part of the work is also the comparison of these forms with an emphasis on their interaction.
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Pilgriming, wandering and hiking (culturological comparative approach)
Fraňková, Soňa ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Půtová, Barbora (referee)
This core work is a mutual comparison approach, which relates to the internal character and motives of the three specific forms of travel: pilgrimage, wandering and hiking. They are presented in chronological order, with an emphasis on comparison, resources, development and continuity of individual approaches. Regarded as the basic motive of these three ways which one sets out of the home; the author considers the human need for change, a desire for knowledge and an escape from everyday life, which are presented in more detail. In addition, being discussed is the concept of looking at these forms of travel as a kind of ritual transition when a person away from their normal environment becomes an individual that is on the border, detached from his past and his future already changed thanks to the newly acquired experiences and expertise - a man who returns is never the same. Pilgrimage, wandering and hiking are presented as activities in which by their own way often enable an individual to abandon everyday life. The level and manner of this work are expressed via a culturally and historical contingent and subject to further transformation. The oldest and most important form of travel is pilgrimage, which is the starting point for the other two forms mentioned. Pilgrimage gradually provides a platform for...
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