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Comparison of sitcoms "Friends" and "How I Met Your Mother"
Bartalová, Jana ; Kruml, Milan (advisor) ; Křemen, Pavel (referee)
The aim of my bachelor thesis is to compare two favorite American sitcoms Friends and How I Met Your Mother. In this work, I first mentioned the history of the TV sitcom in our country and in the world, mentioned the central plots of the two sitcoms under review, and on the sitcom Friends reflected the events associated with 9/11. The main content of this work is comparative analysis of sitcoms, in terms of characters, locations and relationships. In the end, I introduced the episodic roles of famous celebrities and summed up the idea of this work.
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Narratives of the crusades in czech high school history textbooks published during the 20th century
Kroupová, Pavlína ; Storchová, Lucie (advisor) ; Činátl, Kamil (referee)
This thesis deals with different narratives of the crusades found in czech high school history textbooks published during the 20th century. The paper shows various narrative strategies, use of languages and figures of speech that allow for many different points of view and a wide range of explanations of the same historical material. The paper is grounded in the historical narrativism paradigm and organized as follows: the first chapter introduces the theoretical background of narrativism, the second chapter deals with the theoretical approach to history textbooks and with the research that has gone into them. The third chapter offers analyses of all of the scrutinized history textbooks. The fourth and final chapter presents a synthesis spanning all the textbooks, looking for various recurring themes and phenomena.
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The build-up of a plot in Josef Skvorecky's tetralogy about lieutenant Boruvka
Zamora, Juan ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
The scope of the thesis is the description of plot in the open tetralogy of Josef Škvorecký about the lieutenant Josef Borůvka which was published between 1966-1981. We examine the extent to which the rules characteristic for detective stories are complied with in the series and how passages devoted to private life of main characters relate to the investigation of the cases. Theoretically we draw from professional literature about the detective genre (especially Škvorecký, Sýkora, Todorov) and the literature about the author (Kosková, Trenský). We describe contexts of the tetralogy with other proses of Josef Škvorecký as well.
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Towards the Boundaries of Fictional Narrative
Pčola, Marián ; Glanc, Tomáš (advisor) ; Svatoň, Vladimír (referee) ; Derlatka, Tomasz (referee)
My thesis examines the nature of contemporary fictional narration and explores its relations to other types of narration - mainly texts where educational or informative function prevails over the aesthetic one. The whole work is divided into four parts. The first part is theoretical; it sets up basic areas of interest and names methods, tools and models that will be tested on selected examples from Slavonic literatures. The second part analyses spatial and temporal relations of fictional narrative. Chapter 2.1 treats time and space in a novel mostly from the compositional point of view (based on the example of Sasha Sokolov's A School for Fools), while in the next chapter, focusing on ideational interconnections between literary and social- political utopias, both fictionality and temporality are understood more broadly than mere narrative categories: they serve as certain points of connection between the immanent occurrence of meaning in the "world of text" and its historical background. The third part continues in this direction, only what we mean by context here is not the collective historical background, but an individual sphere of everyday life. Our focus switches to two genres standing on the boundary of literary fiction and non-fiction - personal correspondence and a travel journal (travelogue). The...
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On the theory of narrative computer game
Olšan, Jan ; Češka, Jakub (advisor) ; Fulka, Josef (referee)
On the theory of narrative computer game Bc. Jan Olšan Diplomová práce Univerzita karlova v praze, Fakulta humanitních studií, Katedra elektronické kultury a sémiotiky Vedoucí práce: Mgr. Jakub Češka, Ph.D. Praha 2013 Abstract The paper focuses on computer games that include narrative content (that is, such games that tell a story). Its goal is to reveal a theoretic delineation of the nature and inner working of narrative computer game as a specific (art) form, such that would broaden understanding of its properties, possibilities it opens and also to present a basic sort of a definition for it. This basic nature of the subject is discovered in the way the "agent - game situation" coupling is being formed. This coupling is present in both game and narrative, and being a common base, it facilitates integration of both forms into a new one, in this way: the player of the game becomes the agent, controlling the story's protagonist; and the narrative, constituted by the story plot and the conflict it includes and which the player faces, becomes the game situation. This integration produces a new, homogeneous form, from which both the simulation and the narrative parts of narrative computer game can be deduced. In this way it is shown that the apparent contradictory discrepancy between these two parts and the...
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The House - the Place of Human Family
Adamcová, Veronika ; Mravcová, Marie (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
The work deals with the analysis of literary works, where the story takes place inside the house, namely the rental house. This is a very specific area where large number of meetings and encounterings of tenants takes place. This fact brings great potential to create various sub-plots. Chosen literary works are Week in the quiet house and Figures by Jan Neruda, House in the suburb by Karel Polacek and Spring in the house by Jaroslav Havlicek. The work examines what role the house takes in different literary works, how it is displayed and how it is involved in developing the plot and characters.
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