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The National Theatre during the "Normalization Era"
Volfová, Viktorie ; Kudlová, Klára (advisor) ; Šmíd, Marek (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to present the functioning of the National Theatre in Prague under the ideological supervision of the ruling Communist Party in the years 1968-1989. The included chapters aim to provide a comprehensive picture of cultural policy during the so-called normalization period. In these conditions, the National Theatre also carried out its activities. The first part deals with the socio-historical context and selected events that influenced further political developments in the country. The entry of Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia led to a change in the existing conditions, consolidating power and censorship. Therefore, the second part describes the Czechoslovak cultural state apparatus, individual institutions, and their activities during the defined period. It explores how the state regulated culture and the censorship regulations that were enforced. The third part generally presents the impact of the political changes after 1968 on the theater scene. The fourth pivotal part of the work focuses directly on the National Theatre, not only on its dramatic and staging directions but also on its selected personalities. This part is directly followed by a case study containing an interview with actress Taťjana Medvecká, who has been active in the National Theatre since 1975....
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The plays R.U.R. and And So Ad Infinitum in the hands of British censors, theatre managers and publishers
Šaričová, Draga ; Kudlová, Klára (advisor) ; Charypar, Michal (referee)
The plays R.U.R. and And So Ad Infinitum in the hands of British censors, theatre managers and publishers The thesis examines the transformations of the texts of the plays R.U.R. and And So Ad Infinitum (The Insect Play), especially their earliest Czech editions, and compares them with their English editions and the versions used as scripts for the first theatrical adaptations in the United Kingdom. Utilising archival materials from Oxford University Press and the British Library Archive, the thesis also traces the closely interconnected processes of publishing both plays and preparing their theatrical adaptations in the United Kingdom. The thesis seeks to provide new insights into Paul Selver's personality as a translator and to demonstrate that, given the material on which he drew, he did not make such extensive interventions within the translations as some of his critics have suggested; here the thesis builds on the research of Robert M. Philmus. The thesis also provides an insight into the interferences (presumably unknown in the Czech Republic) extorted by the British censorship, and introduces other individuals who influenced the form of the various versions of the plays, such as Nigel Playfair, Clifford Bax and others.
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Reflection of historical facts in a fantastic example of the Star Wars saga
Hadrabová Rauschgoldová, Scarlett ; Beneš, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Kudlová, Klára (referee)
The thesis deals with the issue of depicting long-past and entirely topical historical events in the Star Wars film saga. Given the current size of the Star Wars universe, this work must be limited to films known as "Episodes" (numbered I through IX) and two relatively new feature spin-offs, while everything else will be mentioned only marginally. This work maps in detail how each of the three trilogies of this saga, as well as both spin-offs, show the main problems of the time in which they arose and to which other historical facts they want or can refer. The aim of the work is thus to show that the genre widely regarded as "escape" and "completely detached from reality" reflects historical reality very strongly by its specific artistic means. Keywords Star Wars, historical reality, science fiction, speculative fiction, space opera, SF movie, story, neomyth, George Lucas, Cold War, politics
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Poet Karel Doskočil
Krásenská, Klára ; Sládek, Miloš (advisor) ; Kudlová, Klára (referee)
Karel Doskočil (1908-1962), historiographer, archivist, editor and poet passes unnoticed over a long period of time. This thesis' primary goal is to introduce Doskočil's work in the literary historical context, including two published collections Větve stromů (1941) and Milosrdenství (1947) and other unpublished texts as a part of Doskočil's estate. Approaching Doskočil's literary work in its wholeness (as enabled though access to personal archive) as well as putting it into perspective of the so-called catholic literature appears to be a desirable reminder of an author threatened by collective oblivion. The thesis also remembers Doskočil's scientific activities, altough it does not constitute a crucial subject of our work.
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Shakespearean Themes in the Works of Oscar Wilde
Řehounková, Andrea ; Charypar, Michal (advisor) ; Kudlová, Klára (referee)
In my master thesis, I will concentrate on Oscar Wilde's usage of William Shakespeare's work and its influence on some of his chosen texts. Special attention will be paid to The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Portrait of Mr. W. H., and the essay The Truth of Masks, one of Wilde's earliest known works. My thesis will methodologically make use of intertextuality, especially based on the concept of artistic influence written by Harold Bloom in The Western Canon and possibly other publications, too. Bloom describes William Shakespeare as the core of the Western canon to whom younger authors, including Wilde other Victorians, and also Joyce, refer to either polemically or in agreement. If needed, comparations might be used in my thesis as well. Oscar Wilde vastly references the plays and poetry of William Shakespeare in his work. Simultaneously, Shakespeare influenced Wilde in his personal life - for example in his defence during his trails or when he partook in the opening of Shakespeare's memorial. The goal of my thesis is to map Oscar Wilde's understanding of the character of William Shakespeare and the difference in his approach to Shakespeare in the comparation of the traditional Victorian perspective. I wish to examine how did Oscar Wilde agree and disagree with the traditional Victorian idea through...
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C. S. Lewis, The Voice of Faith in the Heat of WW2
Bílková, Alžběta ; Kudlová, Klára (advisor) ; Charypar, Michal (referee)
The thesis C.S. Lewis: The Voice of Faith in the Heat of World War II briefly presents the key events and works of the important British writer and lay theologian C.S. Lewis, breaks down his varied life into different periods and focuses on Lewis's work at the BBC, an unknown chapter of his life for the Czech audience. It presents the development of his thinking about society and faith, as well as the evolution of his work, not only fiction but also Christian work. A biographical introduction is followed by a section on British society during the Second World War, with a subsection on culture, which played a major role at the time. The third chapter deals with Lewis's work on BBC radio between 1941 and 1944 in Right or Wrong (1941), The Case for Christianity (Broadcast Talks, 1942), Christian Behaviour (1943) and Beyond Personality (1944). It aims not just to provide historical information but to present the popularising role and moral role these programmes played for British society during the Second World War. The final chapter then looks at the end of Lewis's life and the impact his radio programmes had on British society at the time, including the legacy this multi-faceted author left behind.
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Pretext of the Fictional Setting of the novel Sedmikostelí in Prague's New Town
Hrazdírová, Eliška ; Kudlová, Klára (advisor) ; Charypar, Michal (referee)
This thesis aims to analyse the possible forms of the relationship between historical architecture and urban concepts and literary fiction. As a concrete subject for this analysis it chooses the genre of the Gothic novel and its very concrete case, the novel Sedmikostelí (1999) by the Czech writer Miloš Urban. In the individual explanatory and interpretive chapters, he puts two unique ideological concepts in relation to each other. The first is the concept of the New Town of Prague in the thought of its founder, Charles IV. The second is the literary mirroring of this concept and its inspirational role for the fictional New Town in Urban's novel Sedmikostelí and for the central idea of the work, which is the utopian escape from the everyday into the Gothic period with its aesthetic and social ideals and rules. This escape is to enable the re-presentation in the work of the vanished Chapel of Corpus Christi, which in the minds of the novel's characters represents the centre of the space of the so-called Sedmikostelí. This work introduces the history and architecture of the New Town and the symbolic dimension of the urban concept in the thought of Charles IV and reveals step by step the relationship between this concept and the individual buildings, characters, and the ideological basis of Urban's...
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Time-Symbolic Horizons of Characters in Several Types of the Contemporary Czech Novel
Kudlová, Klára ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Trávníček, Jiří (referee) ; Papoušek, Vladimír (referee)
Mgr. Klára Kudlová Anotace dizertační práce (Časově-symbolické horizonty postav v několika typech současného českého románu): Anotace: Teoretická část této práce uvádí a představuje nejprve skupinu naratologických konceptů navržených prostředí literárně-vědného kognitivismu a vztažených k problematice postav (v pracích Uriho Margolina) a jejich konfigurací (v práci Catherine Emmott(ové)) a k modelování příběhového světa (u Davida Hermana). Tyto koncepty jsou pak propojeny s tezemi, které Ricoeurův Temps et recit předkládá ve vztahu k románu a jemu vepsaným "spojnicím" historického času. Na pozadí takto založené syntézy je pak vypracován samostatný koncept románového žánru a dále model časově-symbolických horizontů postav. Jednotlivé časově-symbolické horizonty jsou chápané jako obligátně přítomné v "půdorysu" románu a spojené s plány přítomnosti, minulosti a budoucnost, jsou zde označeny jako horizont autorit, horizont současníků a horizont dědiců; horizont věčnosti je pak založen na propojení s oblastí apriorního smyslu a je chápán jako horizont fakultativní. V interpretační části práce byl pak uvedený model časově-symbolických horizontů a konfigurací postav v nich využit pro interpretaci a typologické usouvztažnění několika podob soudobého českého románu. Těmito podobami byly jednak ženský a "autentický"...
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The Late Fiction of Eduard Štorch
Krajíčková, Kamila ; Charypar, Michal (advisor) ; Kudlová, Klára (referee)
The thesis will focus on the chosen late fiction of Eduard Štorch, an important pedagogue, amateur archaeologue, and an author of a number of books of fiction for young readers, that are mostly set in the pre-historical times and the antiquity. The main topic of the thesis will be two of Štorch's best pieces of fiction forming a loose cycle, i.e. the novels "The Settlement of the Ravens" and "Minehava", but a broader context of the Czech fiction for young readers in the first half of 20th century may also be taken into account. Apart from analysis and interpretation of the novels, the thesis will also search the situation in which the texts were written. This situation is also connected with Štorch's stay and activities in Lobeč u Mšena.
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Characters of Faust and Mefisto in 19th Century Opera Libbretos
Vacková, Dana ; Charypar, Michal (advisor) ; Kudlová, Klára (referee)
"The Changes of Faust and Mephisto in the 19th Century Opera Libreti": The work compares the characters of the scholar Faust and the devil Mephistopheles from J. W. Goethe's "Faust" with the chosen opera libretti adapting the same subject. In the titles we chose, i. e. in Goethe's "Faust", Boito's "Mephistopheles", Gounod's "Faust", and Berlioz's "La damnation de Faust", we devote our attention to the changes of the literary characters. Goethe's "Faust" is a central work of art which could serve as a model for other authors, each of whom, however, adapted the precursory text according to their ideas. The work compares the common and the different features of the Faustian and Mephistophelian motifs. The metamorphoses of the characters and the endings of the single stories are summed up in conclusion. The authors were interested in the same motif, i. e. in the fight between the good and the evil, heaven and hell, God and the devil. Mephistopheles makes a bet with the God, Faust's soul being at a stake. Faust, searching for absolute knowledge, makes a deal with Mephistopheles. Each of the afore-mentioned authors' inspiration by Goethe reached a different goal. The work focuses on the changes of both the central characters of the scholar and the devil. Other characters are taken into account only when...
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