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Individual and systemic factors as a cause for emotional detachment in Dutch novels of the millennial generation
Nedvědová, Tereza ; Krýsová, Anna (advisor) ; Phillips, Anna (referee)
Tereza Nedvědová Individual and systemic factors as the cause of emotional alienation in Dutch novels of the millennial generation Abstract This bachelor thesis deals with individual and systemic factors that cause emotional alienation in Dutch novels of the millennial generation. It is based on the theory of the book Affectieve crisis, literair herstel by Hans Demeyer and Sven Vitse, where the cause of alienation is identified as the dysfunctional world and late capitalist society. This work complements the theory by defining another category of causes, namely individual factors that affect the characters on a personal level. It uses novels representing the Dutch generation of millennials, Gebrek is een groot woord by Nina Polak and De avond is ongemak by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, the latter having been awarded the International Booker Prize 2020. These novels appear in the corpus of Demeyer and Vitse but their interpretation needs to be supplemented by individual factors. The study analyzes the causes of emotional alienation on systemic and individual levels and points to the importance of interpreting the motifs of the text, which would not be considered if one were to follow only the theory of Demeyer and Vitse. This work thus draws attention to the complexity of the individual's experience, who faces...
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De kleurensymboliek in Turks fruit van Jan Wolkers
Stejskalová, Johana ; Gielen, Albertus Josephus Dominicus (advisor) ; Krýsová, Anna (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the color symbolism in the book Turks fruit which was written by Jan Wolkers. Jan Wolkers was an artist and in this thesis is a possible connection between his two careers being explored in direction of the use of colors in association with the two main characters of the novel. De love relationship is written from the perspective of Erik who is also an artist like Wolkers was. In the thesis is mainly the use of color in connection with his second wife Olga being explored. The answers are through assessment determined. The thesis offers interesting conclusions which are based on some color theories and they answer the question whether there is a pattern to follow in the relation between the two main characters. Key words: Turks fruit, Jan Wolkers, color symbolism, artist
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"Historical Romance" or a "Tale of Virtue and of Pity"? Thaddeus of Warsaw as a "New Species of Writing"
Krýsová, Anna ; Nováková, Soňa (advisor) ; Beran, Zdeněk (referee)
in English The aim of this thesis is to interpret and categorize the lesser known novel Thaddeus of Warsaw by the Scottish author Jane Porter. The novel is characterised by the use of several genre conventions - most importantly those commonly found in the conservative anti-jacobin novel or national tale, historical novel and novel of sensibility. Porter's novel is interpreted from all three perspectives and also compared to other relevant novels from roughly the same period: Self- Control by Mary Brunton, The Old English Baron by Clary Reeve and The Wild Irish Girl by Lady Morgan. The comparison aims at the contextualization of Thaddeus of Warsaw and the observation of similarities and differences in the approach to certain themes or motives. The most important motives is that of a trial that shows the character of the protagonist in action, continuity, universality and even a certain parabolic nature of history, an emphasis on virtue and the use of sentimental conventions to portray the emotions of characters. This analysis is preceded by an interpretation of two authorial prefaces. The new one (from 1831) claims that the work it comments on is a historical novel published even before Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, usually considered the first historical novel. The older preface published alongside...
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Speech and Characters in Sir Walter Scott's Waverley and The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Krýsová, Anna ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Clark, Colin Steele (referee)
in English The following bachelor thesis is primarily an analysis of two works of Sir Walter Scott: Waverley and The Heart of Mid-Lothian in the light of the theory of Mikhail M. Bakhtin with a marginal consideration of the poetry of Robert Burns. The aim was to find out what is the nature of the use of direct speech in both novels and how does it help to promote the aim with which the books were written. The respective aims of both books affect the nature of the use of direct speech: because its aim is to portray the consequences of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 in a positive light, Waverley is therefore to a large extent single-voiced. The Heart of Mid-Lothian is on the other hand mostly double-voiced because it is focused on showing all the different social groups of Edinburgh. The use of heteroglossia also allows the author to show a historically important event from many different perspectives and it enables to bridge the differences between regions, cultures, languages and different time periods. Such an approach also helps to overcome stereotypes and prejudices.
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