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Food, Women, and Personal IdentitySelected Chapters from Contemporary Czech Prose
Słowik, Olga ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Parente Čapková, Viola (referee) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyse selected ways in which contemporary Czech prose manifests the complex interconnection of personal (female) identity, gender, and dietary practices. The first part of the thesis develops a theoretical and methodological framework based on anthropologizing approaches to literature, especially those developed in contemporary Polish literary criticism. In these approaches, literature is understood as one kind of linguistic - and more broadly cultural - practice, and interpretation is taken to be one of the most important tasks of literary research. Another theoretical impulse is feminist criticism, which the thesis reflects in its gynocritical selection of texts to analyse and in its understanding of corporeality, everyday life, and personal identity as always gendered. The main part of the thesis consists of four relatively separate interpretative chapters (2-5), which are probes into different ways in which personal (female) identity, gender, and dietary practices are grasped in contemporary Czech prose. The second chapter focuses on autobiographical prose by female authors who have experienced anorexia. The chapter traces the authors' association of the illness with the search for the self, and it addresses key aspects of this search, such as the conflict between...
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An Analysis of Erben's Bouquet within the Context of Feminist Literary Theories
Kynčlová, Tereza ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis An Analysis of Erben's Bouquet within the Context of Feminist Literary Theories is the first study within Czech literary criticism dedicated to this canonical collection of poetry that has been carried out from a gender perspective. In its analysis of the gender aspects contained in Erben's collection, the thesis mostly draws on methods introduced by Anglo-American feminist literary criticism during the seventh and eighth decades of the 20th century. The thesis then touches upon the potentials of poststructuralist theory for addressing gender analyses of this particular collection of poetry. Fetterley's resistant reading and reader response criticism that investigate the relationship between readers - female readers particularly - and literature, especially within the broad context of both the patriarchal society based on hierarchical gender organization and the specificities of women's lived exeperience, are the major methodological and theoretical points of departure of the thesis. The author of the thesis positions herself in an opposition towards the existing interpretations of Erben's poems that permeate the theoretical works of major literary critics which she sees as based on unreflected reproduction of gender stereotypes. The author seeks to subvert misogynist representations of...
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Gender analysis of chosen novels of Miloš Urban
Husáková, Martina ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis A Gender Analysis of Selected Novels of Miloš Urban researches two concrete literary texts, novels Sedmikostelí and Lord Mord, which are analysed from gender perspective. By using two methods, feminist "resisting reading" and discursive analysis, there are uncovered various ways of female's characters construction, which are put in the social and cultural context. Theoretically the work is patterned on Judith Fetterley's concept, which was created during second wave of feminism, and it is connected to new poststructuralist and deconstructivist approaches. In this theses literature is perceived as space of impressing and encountering different discourses. Senses, categories and relations, incuding gender relations, are deconstructed in this space. This theses's core is the analysis of different categories and forms of femininity, which are reproduced in Urban's texts. It tries to show the possibility to read literary text "against the hair" and to not succumb to its interpellations. In this way it stresses personality of reading individual and his/her ability to complete/reshape text during every single process of reading and to produce new senses and categories. Keywords: feminism, gender analysis, Lord Mord, Sedmikostelí, Urban Miloš, resisting reading, women characters
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The Analysis of Gender Relations and the Concept of Romantic Love in the Novel of Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kubová, Alena ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (advisor) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis discusses gender relationships, construction of romantic love, and questions of infidelity in the novel Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. These concepts are examined by means of feminist literary theories that deal with gender as an analytic category and that draw on resistant reading and reader response criticism as major theoretical and methodological points of analysis. The first analytical part focuses on the ways in which femininity and masculinity of the main characters are constructed within the context of patriarchal society under socialism. The second part of the analysis is devoted to various forms of love that appear among the characters. It investigates the role of these love schemes within the presented relationships and focuses on motives of infidelity while considering the gender identity of the characters. By employing gender analysis, this diploma thesis offers a new perspective that reflects on the reproduction of gender stereotypes and departs from existing interpretations of Kundera's major novel.
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Gender analysis of chosen novels of Miloš Urban
Husáková, Martina ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis A Gender Analysis of Selected Novels of Miloš Urban researches two concrete literary texts, novels Sedmikostelí and Lord Mord, which are analysed from gender perspective. By using two methods, feminist "resisting reading" and discursive analysis, there are uncovered various ways of female's characters construction, which are put in the social and cultural context. Theoretically the work is patterned on Judith Fetterley's concept, which was created during second wave of feminism, and it is connected to new poststructuralist and deconstructivist approaches. In this theses literature is perceived as space of impressing and encountering different discourses. Senses, categories and relations, incuding gender relations, are deconstructed in this space. This theses's core is the analysis of different categories and forms of femininity, which are reproduced in Urban's texts. It tries to show the possibility to read literary text "against the hair" and to not succumb to its interpellations. In this way it stresses personality of reading individual and his/her ability to complete/reshape text during every single process of reading and to produce new senses and categories. Keywords: feminism, gender analysis, Lord Mord, Sedmikostelí, Urban Miloš, resisting reading, women characters
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Analysis of power relations and gender stereotypes in writings of Gabriela Preissová - Gazdina roba and Její pastorkyňa
Konopáčová, Zuzana ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
This thesis discusses the conception of power relations and gender stereotypes in Gabriela Preissová's literary masterpiece - Gazdina roba and Její pastorkyňa. The analysis employs the concept of power as an analytical categoryand draws on Michel Foucault's theories. The thesis further examines the discourse in which the main characters find themselves. The analysis of male and female characters focuses on the position of the main character and also on the ways in which female protagonists become influenced by their male partners. Selected characters are also interpreted by using Foucault's concept of bio-power and a special attention is paid to the subject type of homo oeconomicus. The thesis attempts to answer the question, whether the discussed literary characters are "disciplined bodies", or whether they embody a subversion of the (gender) system. Part of the text is also dedicated to the comparison of male and female characters in both Preissová's works as to whether they do or do not comly with traditional images of "masculinity" and "femininity" (and related gender stereotypes), or how many of them represent resisting or (in the case of some female protagonists) collaborating entities. Possible interpretations of the characters' inner drive in this regard are also offered. Key words:...
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Feminist Philosophy of Language: Critical Analysis of Concept of Gender-Sensitive Language
Černohorská, Vanda ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Matonoha, Jan (referee)
Černohorská, Vanda. 2012. Feminist Philosophy of Language: Critical Analysis of Concept of Gender-Sensitive Language. Diploma thesis. Prague: FHS UK. Character Count: 125 043 My thesis presents and critically analyses the concept of gender-sensitive language within the context of feminist philosophy of language. The chosen approach combines the evolution of theoretical presumptions with historical development of the sub-discipline. Therefore, the work offers not only excursion into the development of language and gender research from the seventies until today but also focuses on the fundamental "turns" such as shift from language to discourse and the deconstruction of subject. It also presents some thoughts about the future development of modern gender linguistics which is based on a presumption that in order to achieve successful expansion of the field there needs to be consistent philosophical and theoretical foundations for creating necessary arguments and researches as well as emancipative strategies.
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