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Autobiographical Reflections in Jane Austen's Fictional World
Vošmíková, Marcela ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Grmelová, Anna (referee)
This thesis deals with autobiographical reflections in selected novels of Jane Austen. The theoretical part looks into the social, historical, and cultural background in Jane Austen's lifetime. It also gives a general outline of literary genres in the late 18th and early 19th century. The practical part is focused on the analysis of various aspects in six Austen's books within the context of the available information about the writer's life. These novels are: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. This part deals with the question concerning an extent to which Austen's writing, the fictional worlds of her novels, can be attributed to the influence of her personal life and experience.
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Postmodern Themes and Strategies in The French Lieutenant's Woman
Valentová, Dana ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Grmelová, Anna (referee)
The thesis focuses on postmodern themes and strategies employed in The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles. The aim of this work is to discuss the postmodern themes and strategies, analyse these elements in the novel, and show what constitutes The French Lieutenant's Woman as a work of historiographic metafiction. The thesis also aims to show the main differences between the traditional nineteenth-century realist fiction and the innovative postmodern genre of historiographic metafiction.
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Conception of Victorianism in The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Maříková, Olga ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Grmelová, Anna (referee)
This thesis deals with John Fowles's conception of Victorianism in the book The French Lieutenant's Woman. The basis of the work is the analysis of various areas of Victorian life and their concordance with corresponding areas from the book. The areas encompass the conventional rules with regard to certain social classes and social situations, the power of religion and problems resulting from it. Another area are the relationships between men and women and the position of women in the society with respect to the importance of courtship and marriage. More attention is paid to the main three characters, Ernestina, Sarah and Charles, as they are the crucial means for developing the story. The attitude to the story and Victorianism of the author himself is analysed in the last part.
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Michael Cunningham's Reading of Mrs Dalloway
Bartoňová, Lucie ; Chalupský, Petr (referee) ; Grmelová, Anna (advisor)
This thesis focuses on Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours in the context of postmodernism. As The Hours is a postmodernist interpretation of Mrs Dalloway, the thesis also discusses Virginia Woolfs modernist approach in order to compare it with Cunningham's postmodernist position. I have adopted the methods of close reading and analysis in both Mrs Dalloway and The Hours. To substantiate my assertions I have consulted a number of secondary sources that form the basis of the theoretical part. The aim of the thesis is to provide a sufficient theoretical background to a detailed analysis of the two novels in question and support it by a number of adequate examples contained in the novels. The thesis consists of four chapters, each divided into several sections that focus on specific aspects of modernism and postmodernism. The first chapter "Major principles of modernism" deals with the basic features and principles of modernism, with a special focus on the genre of the novel. The second chapter "Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway' focuses on Mrs Dalloway in the light of modernism and draws an outline of the techniques used and themes contained in the novel. The third chapter "Major strategies of postmodernism" tries to demonstrate the links between modernism and postmodernism to further explore major features and...
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Themes and narrative strategies in selected works of Ian McEwan
Ludvíková, Eva ; Grmelová, Anna (referee) ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to focus on selected works of Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden and Atonement. It attempts to compare and contrast the dominant themes and narrative strategies the author explores and employs in these novels. Also, the thesis concentrates on how the narrative techniques influence the structure of the texts as well as on how the readers perceive the main themes of his novels.
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Aspects of L2 Literature Teaching in the Foreign Language Classroom in the Context of Grammar School Curriculum Reform
Skopečková, Eva ; Grmelová, Anna (advisor) ; Betáková, Lucie (referee) ; Mánek, Bohuslav (referee)
The present dissertation examines certain crucial issues in the field of literature teaching and the use of literature in the foreign language classroom. In particular, it focuses on the specific aspects of the didactics of English literature in the context of the current trends and changes of the Czech grammar school curriculum. Therefore, it explores the relation of literature and education, the question of interpretation and reception of a literary work in connection with the foreign language classroom, which is currently influenced by the new curricular documents. At the research level, the dissertation attempts to find a potentially ideal combination of the disciplines related to this field, i.e. literary scholarship, EFL methodology as well as the outcomes and intentions of the new curricular documents, and searches for new possibilities of the optimal use of English literature in the EFL classroom. The theoretical section consists of three main chapters that correspond to the three main theoretical grounds of the dissertation reflecting the above mentioned disciplines. At first the focus is given to the role of literature in education, its specific position in the foreign language classroom and to the introduction of the basic principles of reception theory and Wolfgang Iser's approach to the...
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Major Topics in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossett
Doležalová, Martina ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee) ; Grmelová, Anna (advisor)
The thesis focuses on the most significant topics in the works of Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti, members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, formed in the Victorian era, who were influenced by the aesthetics of the movement and also by the subsiding Romanticism. This study discusses such characteristically Pre-Raphaelite topics in the poems of both authors as unfulfilled love related to the death of a young beautiful woman, or the anticipation of death and doom. Some more modern and provocative themes, such as prostitution, women rivalry and the role of woman in Victorian society are also examined. The thesis claims that the oeuvres of both authors were, to some extent, affected by their lives and their distinctive attitudes, often diametrically diverse, which is mostly palpable in their contradictory perception of religion, faith and redemption as shown in the collections The House of Life and Monna Innominata. The thesis also offers a comparison of Gabriel's well-known artistic production with his less renowned literary output, highly valued by himself and closely connected with his paintings. One of the ambitions of this study is also an attempt to present Gabriel's poetry from an angle which would show that it is as engaging as his artistic creation, but - unlike his sister's - has not yet...
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Encounters with Otherness in E. M. Forster's A Room With a View and D. H. Lawrence's The Lost Girl
Skopečková, Eva ; Grmelová, Anna (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
In my dissertation, I examine encounters with otherness in E. M. Förster's A Room With a View and D. H. Lawrence's The Lost Girl. Primarily, I focus on the development of the main protagonists, which is influenced by such a sudden encounter. I also discuss the particular views of the two writers concerning this issue. In both books, Forster and Lawrence dramatize their belief in the great potential of southern emotionality and suggest a sort of solution to the dehumanized and stiff life of the English middle classes, which the writers severely criticised. In both novels, Forster as well as Lawrence choose Italy as the representation of the great potential of the Southern nations and they place it against the criticised stiffness and sterility of the English middle classes. The portrayal of this southern element, however, differs in several aspects in the respective books. What is more, the conception of otherness appears in various forms in both works, reflecting their author's approaches. The depiction of the development of Forster's and Lawrence's heroines actually demonstrates their author's beliefs in a possible way for a young middle class woman oppressed by social conventions and values towards her inmost feelings and passions on the grounds of an encounter with otherness. Moreover, there is another...
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Music in Literature
Krejčová, Simona ; Grmelová, Anna (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
The work deals with the issue of Music in Literature, especially related to 20th century British fiction. To demonstrate the roles of music in the novel, the thesis analyses selected works by E. M. Forster and Anthony Burgess from the musical point of view. Based on the study and analysis of both primary and secondary sources, the work tries to present the readers both with the existing findings about the theme as well as my own analysis. The aim of the work is to reveal the ties between music and literature and introduce a another possible angle of discussing not only the selected authors but literature in general, enriching thus both our literary and musical experience. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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