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Tenants in the House of Language: English Romantic Authorship
Flanderová, Veronika ; Horová, Miroslava (advisor) ; Beran, Zdeněk (referee)
The thesis examines the phenomenon of Romantic authorship as a conceptual tool of literary criticism. It compares the concept of Romantic authorship, in which the authorial personality plays a crucial role in determining the meaning of a literary work of art, and various positions of the author in relation to the meaning of their text in English Romantic literature itself. The introductory theoretical chapter develops the idea that the Romantic emphasis on the authorial subject and its primacy in interpretation of a work of art is, to a certain extent, a creation of late 19th - and 20th - century criticism. The thesis then examines the authorial position in Romantic thought and connects it with contemporary debates about language and the transfer of meaning between the subject and the outer world. The case study interprets selected poems by and the autobiography of Samuel T. Coleridge against the background of the debate on language and communication, presenting a number of authorial images in which centrality of the author's self for interpretation of a literary text is problematized.
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The Unconscious in Coleridge
Flanderová, Veronika ; Beran, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Horová, Miroslava (referee)
In the Romantic era, the concept of the Self changes its meaning. There is a shift from the traditional Cartesian consciousness towards perception of the Self as a complex structure including the unconscious. Conceiving of the Self anew struck not only philosophy but thinking about poetry and poetry as well. The thesis focuses on Samuel T. Coleridge, who is considered a major romantic poet and theoretician on the British Isles, and it illustrates the conceptual shift on two of his poems: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan". At the same time, the thesis attempts at an explication of two complex philosophical problems that widely influenced the debates around the concept of the Self, i.e. the problem of the unity of subject and object, and the epistemological problem of the means of knowledge acquisition. Foreshadowing of the philosophical context allows us to situate the chosen poems in the process of the aforementioned conceptual modification. Key words: S. T. Coleridge, the Self, imagination, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "Kubla Khan"
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