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Robert Frost: the village and beyond
Mecner, Michal ; Roraback, Erik Sherman (referee) ; Quinn, Justin (advisor)
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) was a prominent American poet, teacher, lecturer, scholar, public figure, American symbol and thinker of the 20th century. As Archibald MacLeish emphasizes, Frost was not only a poet of his time, of the American nation, but - much like William Shakespeare - a poet of the English language itself (MacLeish, 439). Frost's command of colloquial speech and the New England dialect is considered by the critics to be outstanding. Depiction of rural life is dominant in Frost's poetry and Frost himself took the life of a farmer-poet. And, as MacLeish reminds us, Frost was city-born, town-bred and his story is rather one of a stranger who falls in love with New England and makes his life in it (MacLeish, 442). However, there is a gap between the traditional pastoral poetry and Frost's oeuvre which is modernistic in many ways. Nature clearly dominates Frost's verse but it is arguably not its central theme. Rather, it serves as a shifting background for the portrait of man, for the experience of what it means to be human. The merit of Frost's poetry lies in the dramatized relationship between the character portrayed and the environment surrounding him. Rather than depicting the dominance of one over the other (e.g. of man and technology over nature or the submission of man before nature),...
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The Language and Subjectivity of a Portrait
Dudešek, Štěpán ; Armand, Louis (advisor) ; Vichnar, David (referee)
In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce shifts away from the traditional objective narration to a more subjective mode of writing. The reader can experience the story and the characters not only through what is actually written but also through how it is written. Joyce employs various language techniques to show different styles that create the feeling of different voices. Four major registers can be distinguished: a child's language, 19th century lyricism, the language of the Catholic school and the more complicated style of the last chapter. The prevalent techniques suggesting a child-like usage are manifested through repetition, childish expressions, use of modality and questions. Lyricism then draws on Byronic and other 19th century parallels, for instance the overuse of adjectives, elevated metaphors and frequent occurrence of standard poetic tropes. The language of the Church is reflected in sermon-like repetition, archaic words, biblical expressions and heavy diction. The language of the last chapter tries to use precise technical terms in an imitation of Thomist and other scholastic texts and manages to incorporate many of the previous elements as well, although often in a self-mocking way. All these techniques and devices in part substitute the traditional objective narrative and help to...
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Translation as a Cultural Phenomenon. Geirge Steiner: After Babel.
Grauová, Šárka ; Housková, Anna (advisor) ; Svatoň, Vladimír (referee) ; Pelán, Jiří (referee)
The thesis is based on the translation of a seminal work by George Steiner After Babel (1975), published in Triáda Publishing in 2010. The study presented in this volume is divided into three parts: the first one sketches a general portrait of George Steiner as a literary and cultural critic, language philosopher and a Jewish thinker much of his thought is dedicated to the Shoah. The second part traces Steiners intellectual profile with regards to his life story. The third part introduces Steiner's poetics and ethics of translation, paying attention especially to the phenomenon of translation in the colonial and postcolonial world. It maps the succession of metaphorical images Steiner uses to pinpoint translation and interpretation in general, especially the metafor of war and of hospitality. It concludes that a metaphorical use of the term "translation" for the whole field of understanding, interpretation and cultural tradition is not of much help in our apprehension of what translation proper is.
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Program education of citizens in the field of population, with special emphasis on disabled persóna
MAZÁK, Tomáš
The aim of this thesis was to analyse the current state of upbringing and education in the field of human protection in emergency situations, with particular emphasis on persons with disabilities. For this purpose, there was implemented a questionnaire survey and there were created two questionnaires a questionnaire for teaching staff at special schools and a questionnaire for their directors in the South Bohemia region. The questionnaire for teaching staff comprised 37 questions and was organized into two thematic sections. The questionnaire was a combination of open and closed questions. The first seven questions were used to obtain the information needed to characterize the investigation file. The first block was focused on respondents' knowledge; questions were focused on the issues of the integrated rescue system, civil protection, first aid and questions of selected emergencies (floods, radiation accident, biological agents), then the knowledge of the recommended ways of behaviour in the development of selected incidents. The aim of the first block of the questionnaire was to find out the awareness of teachers. The second block was aimed at self-education in this field and the assessment of the importance of teaching these issues in schools. The replies of teachers of this thematic bloc served to complement the views, experiences and observations of respondents related to this issue. The questionnaire for directors contained 19 questions. The questionnaire was a combination of open and closed questions. The first 6 questions were used to obtain the information needed to characterize the investigation file. The second part of the questionnaire focused on issues that dealt with school directors' own opinions in the South Bohemia region. The results of the questionnaire were analysed using Excel from Microsoft Office software package. The main objective of this thesis was to determine the awareness of teachers. For good measure of awareness I set the limit of 75% correct answers. Results can be assessed as very startling. I learned that most of the teaching staff haven´t basic knowledge in the issues of personal safety in emergencies. For this reason, they would like to educate themselves in the form of organized trainings. Directors, who also think that their schools have enough teaching aids for both normal and disabled students, also showed this interest. Although these answers were disproved by the teaching staff, who claim the opposite. As a result, it can be understood that the present state of education in the field of human protection in emergency is very individual and depends only on the approach of teaching staff. There are no special teaching materials and uniform system that would unite all schools and provide them with the necessary tools. The thesis provides insight on teaching human protection in emergencies and the teaching staff's own opinions about it. My results can be used as a basis for further research investigation, because I think it would be appropriate to elaborate on some passages. Performance of work at special schools for the disabled entails a number mentally, but also physically demanding situations. These situations teachers and directors manage very well. In this area there are many schools, specifically aimed at one disability, but also those that work with various disabilities. School education programs and this teaching the topic of human protection in emergencies need to be adapted to the needs of children and students with special educational needs so as to achieve consistency between educational requirements and actual abilities of these pupils. Currently, schools use to teach a variety of assistive aids to address special educational needs of the pupils, but there are no didactical tools, special textbooks (study materials in Braille, sign language recordings) that would through its form and content reflect the needs of disabled persons.
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Key moments in the life of Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960's and their reflection in contemporary Czech Slovak media
Vančurová, Kateřina ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Cebe, Jan (referee)
The bachelor thesis is about the portrayal of four key moments in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. in contemporary Czechoslovak media in the 1960's. We picked three main contemporary dailies: Rudé právo, Svobodné slovo and Mladá fronta. We analyzed the following events: the march on Washington on August 28th, 1963, the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates on October 14th, 1964 and the ceremony on December 11th, 1964, the so-called Bloody Sunday on March 7th, 1965 and the following march on March 21st, 1965 and the assassination on Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4th, 1968. The analysis includes texts that were published one week before the event and two weeks after it. With this interval, it is possible to cover the main texts about the event and consequential events. The thesis compares the objective portrait made by contemporary and present history sources and the contemporary media portrait by analyzing the language means and resources. The aim of the thesis was to determine the difference caused by the regime control over media contents and the limitations of information resources.
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Poetry of Ludvík Kundera
Hubená, Ester ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
The thesis focuses on the poetry of Ludvík Kundera. It introduces his work in chronological order and within the contemporary literary-historical framework. The analysis and the interpretation of his early poems often refer to the war period. Language and its potentiality are a main concern in Kundera's other work. His poetry is defined in the context of avant-garde modern art: surrealism, dadaism and expressionism. The thesis researches the impact of Brecht's poetics on Kundera, too. It also introduces the persona of the artist, who significantly contributed to forming the Czech literary field during the second half of the 20th century. Kundera's poetry relates to Czech and foreign artists and their works. The poems rise from ordinary occasions, as well as showing the poet's intertextual approach. Experimentation, wordplay, lyrical humour and irony are an inherent part of Ludvík Kundera's work.
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The bottomless pit: the diverse portrayal of the miner as the subject in Czech literature
Sedlářová, Barbora ; Janoušek, Pavel (advisor) ; Mravcová, Marie (referee)
The main topic of this thesis is a portrait of the miner as a character in Czech literature. It follows some of the selected pieces, which begin at the start of 20th century leading up to 1978. The pieces are separated into three main groups (social novels of the 1st half of 20th century, drama from the 50's and the novels of the Czech political detainee). There are a couple of aspects that reflect the method of portrayal of the miner and its process; firstly, its the relationship between the narrator and the character, and secondly, the variation can be found within four aspects of the character of the miner - the visual aspect, activity, surroundings and language. There is a note about the authors at the beginning of every chapter.
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