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Female Characters in Karen Blixen's Work
Dolejší, Agáta ; Březinová, Helena (advisor) ; Slouková, Radka (referee)
This paper introduces at first the inception of feminism in the society and later in Denmark. Then it presents feminist literary theory and the motives which the theory pursues. In the second part the paper analyses three Karen Blixen's tales and compares them to Sigrid Undset's novel. At this comaparison it endeavours to point to a difference of the authors and to a Blixen's unique perspective on female status in society through her work. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Courtesy and Women in the Scandinavian Knightly Epic
Ivánková, Markéta ; Březinová, Helena (advisor) ; Polách, Vladimír (referee) ; Malaníková, Michaela Antonín (referee)
Courtesy and Women in the Scandinavian Knightly Epic Abstract The aim of this dissertation was synchronic and diachronic evaluation of gender roles in Scandinavian courtly epic from its beginning in the 13th century until the end of the 15th century. Its different conceptions of women, love, and courtesy were chosen as criteria, which make the main specifics of continental courtly fashion apparent - of the fashion which these translations were meant to introduce into Scandinavia. Besides literary analyses of gender norms, we have considered texts of pragmatic nature and even selected artefacts of material culture. Our focus, therefore, included a broader social, cultural, and political context of this literature and social norms and literary conventions of other contemporary literary genres in Scandinavia. Our work is based not only on primary sources and findings of literary history, but also on interdisciplinary research. Our analyses demonstrate the destabilisation and redefinition of gender boundaries in Old Norse literature, which was caused by translations of knightly epic, where the male hero was allowed so far unparalleled degree of sensitivity and feminine openness of emotions. Prior to these translations, honour and status of any man, who would humbly beseech his beloved like the heroes of...
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Archaeological textile research in the Czech Republic
Bravermanová, M. ; Březinová, Helena
The paper is a synoptical summary of scientific research focused on research of archaeological textiles in the Czech Republic. It maps the development of this discipline from the 19th century to present, lists the most important experts involved in the research of the historical development of textile production and its archaeological evidence.
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Ekphrasis in the Works of Karen Blixen
Slouková, Radka ; Humpál, Martin (advisor) ; Březinová, Helena (referee) ; Jedličková, Alice (referee)
This thesis analyses ekphrastic passages in the short stories of the Danish writer Karen Blixen. It points out the various definitions of ekphrasis while drawing on a wider conception of this phenomenon which is based on the current intermediality discourse. The texts are analysed on two levels: 1) Ekphrastic thematization, i.e., the transfer of content elements from visual arts to literature, especially regarding landscape painting, portrait and still life. 2) Ekphrastic realization, i.e., the practical use of painting techniques in literary texts, such as the choice of colours or the depiction of light. The results of the analyses indicate a diversity of forms of ekphrasis in Blixen's works, be it in terms of scope, form or integration into the text structure. The results also point out the importance of the so-called pictorial model concept in the author's poetics.
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Middle and Late Bronze Age Textile Production on the Greek Mainland and in Western Anatolia
Staničová, Jana ; Pavúk, Peter (advisor) ; Březinová, Helena (referee)
This thesis is concerned with textile production in Middle and Late Bronze Age on the Greek continent and western Anatolia. First part explains the description of methodology of approach to textile manifacture in the studied area, followed by description and properties of threads used to weave the cloths, as well as technologies used in their making. Terms related to textile are mentioned on clay tablets with linear writing B, hence the thesis engages in their interpretation and comparison between particular centres. Second part analyses tools used in textile manifacture, namely whorls and loom weights based on their shape. Then follows topographic overview of the most prominent localities of textile manifacture in which textile-making tools were found. Localities not included in the overview are mentioned in the table. The overview describes locality, number and types of whorls and loom weights and what materials are they made of. Whenever possible, the most important specification is mentioned - the weight - based on which the type of weaved textile is described. The aim of the thesis is to create overview of localities with tools used in textile making as well as their analysis and comparison. Collected data are converted into tables, graphs and maps. In the last part called discussion,...
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Music as a structural component and motif in Nordic novels: Juloratoriet, Ormens väg på hälleberget, De fortabte spillemænd
Miesslerová, Zuzana ; Březinová, Helena (advisor) ; Hartlová, Dagmar (referee)
(česky) Tato diplomová práce se zabývá otázku, jakou roli hraje hudba ve třech vybraných skandinávských hudebních románech Ztracení muzikanti Wiliama Heinesena, Cesty hada na skále Torgnyho Lindgrena a Vánoční oratorium Görana Tunströma. Analýza komplexních intermediálních vztahů mezi jednotlivými literárními díly a hudbou postupuje v souladu se zásadami Feyerabendova metodologického anarchismu induktivně a heuristicky. U všech tří románů nachází strukturální i obsahové literárně-hudební souvislosti, které vykazují různou míru komplexity a vzájemné provázanosti. Struktura Heinesenova románu úzce kopíruje sonátovou formu, struktura Tunströmova románu o něco volněji následuje strukturu Bachova Vánočního oratoria a struktura Lindgrenova románu vytváří prostřednictvím délky kapitol rychlé a pravidelné tempo, které ovšem v klíčovém bodě příběhu kolabuje. Romány obsahují také řadu tematických souvislostí, kdy hudba figuruje jako zdroj radosti nebo naopak předehra ponížení, atribut života nebo naopak prostředek úniku do fantazie, genderová charakteristika spojená buď s mužskými nebo s ženskými postavami, nebo jako základ dalších, složitějších dichotomií. Abstract (in English): The thesis poses a question about the role of music in three selected Scandinavian music novels: Wiliam Heinesen's Lost Musicans,...
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The collection of archaeological textiles of waste layers in the centre of Prague
Březinová, Helena ; Kohout, D.
The paper summarizes the information about an unique assemblage of several hundreds of textile fragments from rescue archaeological excavations in the centre of Prague, in the New Town of Prague (Jungmannova, Vodičkova and Školská Streets), carried out in 2004-2008. During the excavations, a massive stratigraphy of organic origin was uncovered, which was the relic of a rubbish dump from the 14th and 15th centuries, and provided an unusually large amount of objects from organic materials - textile, wood and leather. The most interesting conclusions from the survey of woollen and silk textiles are presented, their broad spectrum provides an interesting view of medieval textile material culture. The results of the analyses of used dyes and the information about the restoration and adjustment of this extraordinary assemblage are presented too.
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Czech Translations of Knut Hamsun's Novel Hunger
Martínková, Věra ; Humpál, Martin (advisor) ; Březinová, Helena (referee)
The subject of this master thesis is a comparison of four Czech translations of Knut Hamsun's novel Hunger (Sult, 1890) - from 1902 (Hugo Kosterka), 1932 (Milada Lesná-Krausová), 1959 (Milada Lesná-Krausová) and 2016 (Helena Kadečková). The thesis consists of a theoretical part, dealing with the analysis of the original text and the historical context of trends in translation, and a practical part, analysing and comparing the translations. The aim of the thesis was to assess the adequacy of the translations and the correlation between the methods and the corresponding contemporaneous trends. As we expected, the language and methods applied in the translations correspond with the practices in the respective periods. In terms of the method consistency and thoroughness, the versions of Kosterka and Kadečková proved to be the most adequate.
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