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Symbology of grass-snakes in Lithuanian folklore
Butzke, Petra ; Lemeškin, Ilja (advisor) ; Štoll, Pavel (referee)
The object of investigation in this work is to analyze užovky symbolism and its role in individual tanru spoken Lithuanian folklore. The symbol is pohlíženo as to the importance of perception užovky, its position and role in oral folklore. Examined the Lithuanian fairy tales (mythical) reputation, proverbs and sayings, riddles, prayers to užovce, incantations against snake bites and phraseologisms. We took examples from a number of available, folk sources. The analysis užovky symbolism and its role in appointed tanru we focused on features užovky in the Lithuanian pagan beliefs, mythologies of other nations and Christianity.
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Modernisation of Latvian classical prose in work of Eriks Adamsons
Korbélyiová, Lucie ; Lemeškin, Ilja (advisor) ; Štoll, Pavel (referee)
The purpose of this diploma thesis is to describe the short stories of Latvian writer and poet Eriks Adamsons as an integral and internally linked artistic and ideal system as well as to analyse their composition and thematic structure and to specify the originality of the author's artistic expression. Importatnt part of the work is also detailed biografy of the author, a chronological description of the Latvian literature evolution and Adamsons's position in it. Integral part of the thesis is also our translation of three of the short stories and remarks dealing with some translation and terminological aspects.
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Latvia between Germany and Russia in the novel by M. Zariņš Calendar of Bandmaster Kociņš
Chlupáčová, Edita ; Štoll, Pavel (advisor) ; Lemeškin, Ilja (referee)
The subject of the thesis is an analysis of the novel Calendar of bandmaster Kociņš by M. Zariņš, which is considered as a dynamic structure characterised by the fact that the process of signification is always in motion and by this very motion the meaning is constituted. The observed motion takes place on two axes, firstly on the axis novel - calendar, secondly on the axis author as writer - author as producent, and thus the distancing effect arises. As understood in the thesis, the concept of distancing effect is based on the theoretical writings of B. Brecht, further elaborated by W. Benjamin and R. Barthes. The distancing effect in semiotic interpretation enables to identify the grotesque nature of the novel as hypersignification, i. e. as meaning overload, and therefore to read the novel as an open text referring to how it is made. Moreover, the workings of the distancing effect give rise to political appeal of the text which consists in the transition from competition and individualism to sharing and collectivism.
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The Latvian Movement of "Dievturība"
Vacíková, Michala ; Lemeškin, Ilja (advisor) ; Štoll, Pavel (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to describe origins, history, activity and influence of a Latvian religious movement called Dievturība, established in Latvia in the interwar period, interruption of their activities as a consequence of the Soviet occupation in 1940 and its renewal in exile, especially in the United States, where the followers of Dievturība built an important Latvian cultural centre, as well as its rebirth in the independent Latvia after 1990. With the help of the American Dievturi Latvian followers try to gain more attention through organizing cultural events and raise public awareness of Dievturība. Furthermore the thesis surveys origins of the movement's doctrine, contacts of Dievturība with folklore groups, attitude of its followers, Dievturi, towards politics and media and especially the significance of Dievturība for forming the modern Latvian society. Special attention is paid to Ernests Brastiņš, a founder of the movement, to his life, thoughts, ideas and plans connected with his effort to revive Latvian national cultural consciousness. There are also important the views of critics of Dievturība's doctrine and its understanding of pre-Christian Latvian religion, to which Dievturība relates. In my work I also try to outline the pre-Christian Latvian religion and to find differences...
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Poetics of Dramatic Works of Mara Zalite
Česnohlídková, Barbora ; Lemeškin, Ilja (advisor) ; Štoll, Pavel (referee)
The first chapter of the thesis presents Mary Zālīte's personality. The next chapter deals with sources of inspirational works. Here are the figures mentioned by name, that affected the author so much, that their legacy is in her work very noticeable. The following chapter examines and also analyzes the author's poetry, which has features in common with her drama. Another chapter has been focused on the Zālīte's drama, particularly the poetic drama, where the author's analysis in the form of plays and librettos found connection between, that were typical for the authors motives. These analyses were also helpful in the creation of the last chapter of the thesis, which explores the poetic drama M. Zālīte's Margaret. Based on a detailed analysis of the play Margaret was performed comparing the modern play with the Goethe's classic work Faust, which revealed a number of common elements but also innovations of the author.
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Czech contexts of Latvian cultural traditions
Štoll, Pavel ; Parolek, Radegast (advisor) ; Švec, Luboš (referee) ; Hoskovec, Tomáš (referee)
1 ABSTRAKT Tato práce vychází z autorova dlouholetého teoretického i praktického působení v oboru česko-lotyšských literárních a kulturních vztahů a současně ze zvýšeného zájmu o odkaz ochranovské Jednoty bratrské, který se v posledních letech projevuje jak na lotyšské, tak na české straně. Autor zkoumá určité lotyšské kulturní tradice a jejich české kontexty, zejména na základě konkrétních lotyšských textů a jejich smyslu, který je kontextem spoluvytvářen. Usiluje přitom o dialogický pohyb mezi strukturálně-sémiotickými a recepčně- -hermeneutickými přístupy, mezi syntézou a analýzou, dedukcí a indukcí s těžiskem v konkrétních jevech. Práce byla strukturována podle Komenského programu nápravy "moudrosti mysli", "zbožnosti srdce" a "životního klidu": v těchto oblastech v Lotyšsku působily také ideje české náboženské reformace. Mezi lotyšskými a českými kulturními tradicemi byly nalezeny mnohé shody a některé odlišnosti, k nimž v Lotyšsku patří silný vliv luterství s prvky pohansko-křesťanské synkreze. Ta se projevuje také ve výrazné tradici "kultury srdce", v níž byly rozlišeny tři roviny: (1) individuální - náboženská a etická, vycházející zejména z ochranovského pietismu (2) kolektivní - sociální, národní a politická, úzce související s českou náboženskou reformací (3) přírodní - panteistická, navazující...
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Corpus analysis of chosen Latvian somatisms
Rýdza, Eva ; Škrabal, Michal (advisor) ; Štoll, Pavel (referee)
This corpus-based diploma thesis deals with the analysis of selected Latvian somatisms containing the keywords galva, kāja and roka, using principally data from the parallel corpus InterCorp v11. The aim of the thesis is to identify corpus categories and creative alterations of Latvian somatisms, as well as determine how they can be translated to Slovak and Czech. The theoretical part comprises an introduction to the fields of phraseology, cognitive and corpus linguistics; a description of the features of idioms as well as their classification; and a demonstration of the differences between phraseological terms in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Latvia and the West. The practical part focuses on the analysis of patterns in the context of somatisms, the assessment of creative alterations in comparison with linguistics textbooks, and finding translation equivalents in Slovak and Czech.
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Latvian feast "Jáni"
Bahenská, Veronika ; Štoll, Pavel (advisor) ; Ante, Kristine (referee)
This diploma work is the result of the analytical comparison of mostly written and partly also sourced documents in the meaning of diachronic knowledge and at the same time synchronic even though not really terrain research of Latvian John (Jáni) and Czech St. John the Baptiste (Jan Křtitel) holiday. The way of the processing and the interpretation mostly participates on the ethnological study of verb folklore and changes of ethnocultural traditions of new-age Latvian and Czech nations. Respectively it deals with Central European cultural heritage of both nations, even despite the condition that the generally acknowledged definition of "a nation" is currently non-existent. It was the utmost interest in the folklore that influenced my choice of firstly the bachelor and also the progressive work. The transmission of sociocultural phenomena and manifests of culture of single persons, local society and interest groups are connected with folklore and have their place in the national cultural life. These aims were fulfilled primarily by nationally oriented emancipation of Czech lands, the process connected with social cultural romanticism as from the end of 18th century, so called "national revival". Secondly, they were fulfilled by the outcome of the industry revolution in 19th century in accordance...
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Non-periphrastic and Periphrastic Tenses in Latvian and their Equivalence in Czech
Verostová, Veronika ; Štoll, Pavel (advisor) ; Škrabal, Michal (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the verb tenses in Czech language and simple and complex tenses in Latvian language. In the theoretical part is described, how tenses are constructed, when they are used and also what relation they have to verb aspect. Complex tenses of indicative are analysed in detail in the empirical research. The goal of research, which is based on processed data from Czech National Corpus, is to find out, how the czech translators translate complex tenses from Latvian to Czech and also how latvian translators translate verbs in past, present and future tenses from Czech to Latvian.
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Contribution of Fricis Brīvzemnieks to the Latvian-Russian Cultural Relations
Skorvid, Alexandra ; Štoll, Pavel (advisor) ; Ante, Kristine (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with an issue of the dialogue of the Latvian and Russian cultures in a situation, when Latvian territory was the part of the Russian empire. The purpose of this work is to analyze materials that are related to the activities of the important representative of the Young Latvian movement, folklorist, ethnologist, publicist and litterateur Fricis Brīvzemnieks in Russia in the years 1867-1887. His activity is set within the wider context of the Latvian National Revival in the second half of the 19th century, with the special reference to the Latvian-Russian cultural relations in this period.
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