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The literary work as a method of researching nonverbal and vocal communication
Hájek, Matěj ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Šebek, Josef (referee)
In my thesis, I will be pondering on the resources of non- verbal material as well as on the methodology of research concerning this topic. The thesis will illustrate the problematics of authentic non-verbal communication derived from scientific publications written by chosen authorities. In the second part, I will introduce the theoretical basis in which I will clarify the reasons why even artistic literature can be considered a valuable tool of research and I will demostrate the effect on chosen extracts with references to the terminology introduced in the first part of my thesis. In this part, I will point out the contribution of artistic literature to the scientific research as well as its possible typology. Key words non-verbal communication, systematization of means, verbalization, interpretation, exposition, discourse, pseudo- reality
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Czech Faces of Franz Kafka before World War II
Soukup, Jiří ; Holý, Jiří (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The present study focuses on the analysis of the changes of Franz Kafka's reception in the Czech context before World War II, i. e. on the analysis of Czech translations and critical reflections in Czech language of his works. The study is divided into two symmetrical (in time) parts: the first one focuses on Kafka's reception in his lifetime (1909-1922), the second one on the reception after his death (1924-1939). In the first part, translations of Kafka's office publications are analyzed in the context of their origin, Kafka's part (as an author) in the formation of the original texts as a source for their translation and set in the context of his belletristic works; in the prosopographically oriented analysis the aim is further focused on the reception of Kafka's belletristic texts in his lifetime and on different strategies of translation by authors who translated his texts into Czech during his lifetime (Milena Jesenská, Milena Illová, Jaroslav Dohnal), Kafka's responses and how they are reflected in his work. The analysis in the second part is structured mainly according to the tendencies of reception whose focus shifts gradually from expressionist to surrealistic interpretations; the analysis of gradual changes of Kafka's image in the Czech press which reflects the changing reception of his...
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The problem of identity in the novel The Long Lost Glory of the Patriarchy by Pavel Brycz
Didora, Anna ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Vučka, Tomáš (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the problem of identity in the novel by contemporary Czech writer Pavel Brycz The Long Lost Glory of the Patriarchy. It emerges from the concept of identity as a process of understanding one's self, the meaning of one's life, one's awareness of his place in an individual image of the world. Based on analysis of characters we try to show how Pavel Brycz portrays various aspects of identity (national, personal, social, professional, gender). Structurally, the thesis is divided into two parts: the first one is devoted to the basic characteristics of identity and represents the generalization of various concepts of identity from the point of view of philosophy, psychology, sociology and literary theory; the second part deals with the analysis of the characters of Brycz's novel The Long Lost Glory of the Patriarchy, which shows that each character carries a certain distinctive identity.
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Between Literature and Photography. Reading of (Empty) Places in the Works of G. Rodenbach, W.G. Sebald and P. Král
Sechovcová, Monika ; Hrdlička, Josef (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The thesis examines the relationship between (photographic) image and text in two novels accompanied by photographs: Georges Rodenbach's Bruges-la-Morte and The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald. As in the essence of photographic image lies the question of its relation to reality, we decided to make from the theme of relation between reality and fiction, which differs according the type of representation, our central theme. The thesis is also concerned with the themes of passing, mourning and order, which connect examined novels. Our interpretation is based mainly on Roland Barthes' theoretical text Le message photographique in which he defines various types of photographic connotation that we search in analyzed phototexts. Concerning the partial theme of connection between photograph and death we base our analysis on Barthes' Camera Lucida, than we proceed mainly from the essays of the collection Co je to fotografie which concern with photographic pose (Thierry de Duve), photograph and remembering (André Bazin), photograph and mirror (Craig Owens).
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Affect, Expression, Performance: Transformation of Melodramatic Excess in the Work of Werner Schroeter
Anger, Jiří ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Svatoňová, Kateřina (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with various possible ways in which the formalized expression of emotions that is characteristic of the melodramatic mode can be reinterpreted in the context of experimental cinema, with the work of the director Werner Schroeter being used as a main (but not exclusive) example. The main argument is based on two interrelated ideas. First, the melodramatic mode as a genre-bending category offers a wide repertory of stylistic features designed to express extreme emotional states or situations which can be encompassed by the term "melodramatic excess". This type of excess manifests itself most visibly in moments of intense passion when the plot breaks down and freezes in a static or symbolic arrangement, either through close-up or tableau vivant. All attention is thereby focused on the heroes' gestures and poses which express their emotional state face to face with an intense situation for which they cannot yet find an adequate response. Second, certain experimental films manage to transform the melodramatic excess through "expressive and performative operations" with filmic space, time and bodies, turning the exterior representation of emotions into the immanent expression of affects. In this case, affect is understood as a certain variation of emotions which demonstrates the...
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Zwischenraum and Denkraum in the context of ascent and fall in the Mnemosyne Atlas of Aby M. Warburg
Váša, Ondřej ; Petříček, Miroslav (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee) ; Konečný, Lubomír (referee)
The doctoral thesis focuses on the Warburg's concept of thought space [Denkraum] and the related concept of artistic creation as an interface between the affections and abstract thinking [Zwischenraum], representing the key concepts of his late work (especially between the years 1920- 1929), culminating in the pictorial atlas Mnemosyne. In this context, the thesis focuses on the motive of ascent as well, and concludes that the pathos formula of ascent plays a crucial historical role in the constitution of modern Denkraum and forms one of the fundamental constitutive parameters of the thought-space, whose own metaphorical perspective is the contemporary aviation. For an adequate reflection of the historical development of this Denkraum, Warburg turns to the physical models of thought and artistic creation, including an attempt to use Einstein's theories of relativity. The key role of the motive of ascent in the constitution of Denkraum subsequently shapes this thought space within the confines of Renaissance humanism.
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Two concepts of poetism. Karel Teige and E. F. Burian
Rozbořilová, Adéla ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
This thesis characterises E. F. Burian's early conception of Poetism in contrast to Teige's "mainstream" avantgarde conception, focusing on the period of Burian's stay in Prague between 1924 and 1930. The crucial aspect of the problem is Burian's emphasis on acoustics and tonality in poetry, opposed to Teige's optical poems based on visuality. First, the main ideas of Teige's program are set up. The thesis then follows Burian's artistic progression, analysing all Burian's fundamental writings (Polydynamika, Idioteon etc.) and explains his idea of polydynamics. The aim is to explicate Burian's vision of poetism and its application in contemporary cultural environment, based on what Burian reflects in his writings. Keywords: Emil František Burian, Karel Teige, Poetism, tonality, visuality, optical poetry, voiceband, polydynamics
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Karel Teige, Jan Mukařovský and Bohuslav Brouk as Theorists of Surrealism
Kuchařová, Markéta ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The content of the thesis is the surrealistic object and its reflection among the czech theorists. The first part of the thesis describes the problematic of surrealistic object and subject-objective relations in surrealism. Breton's philosophical approach is introduced, as well as his concept of object's crisis. The first part also outlines the meaning of found object, concept of convulsive beauty and Dali's paranoic-critical method as a source of surrealistic imagery. The second part of the thesis is focused on the reflection of surrealistic object presentation and on relations between arts and reality according to the concepts of Jan Mukařovský. The third part of the thesis is dedicated to conceptualization of aesthetics of Bohuslav Brouk in the light of surrealism. In this part the scope of Brouk's understanding of subject-objective relations is briefly described, as well his interpretation of surrealistic object.The last part of the thesis outlines the Teige's conception of surrealistic work in the terms of the sources of surrealistic imagination.
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Motives of fire and blood in Bohuslav Reynek's Thirsts and in Pierre Jean Jouve's Les Noces
Raušerová, Andrea ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
AN ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE This diploma thesis regards poems of Bohuslav Reynek and Pierre Jean Jouve with a prism of fire and blood motives. The analysis is focused on their early works, i.e. on Bohuslav Reynek's Thirsts and Pierre Jean Jouve's Les Noces. The diploma thesis is divided into two parts, the theoretical and the practical ones. The theoretical part gives the view into problematics of blood and fire motives. It is encouraged with several theories, such as literary (Bachelard), psychoanalytic (Jung) and theological (Spidlik). The second chapter of theoretical part sums up already existing perception of the analysed texts, with the main focal point on the motives. This aim fulfils either Med's and Putna's interpretations of Reynek or Pic's and Kelly's interpretations of Jouve. The main part of the diploma thesis is then seen in the analysis of motives itself. The author of the diploma thesis searches for different representations of these motives, e.g. flaming tongues of fire (the symbol of the Holy Spirit), a pierced heart of Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary equally as their mixing, such as flaming heart, bloody sun etc. In the results of this diploma thesis there is summarised the analysis of these topoi - fire and blood and their different realisations in each work of the poets. Their attitude...
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Technology of morbid in fairy tales
Prokopová, Eliška ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
(in English): The diploma thesis deals with the specific conception of body and corporeality in fairy tales, especially with morbid elements which are often reflected as non-fairy tale. The fairy tales of Karel Jaromír Erben, Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde are the main focus. The thesis also introduces the theory of the Swiss scholar Max Lüthi formulated in The European Folktale: Form and Nature into the Czech context. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical section provides a complex explication of Max Lüthi's theory of the fairy tale. It examines the main terms that Luthi defined for the fairy tale: One-dimensionality, Depthlessness, Abstract Style, Isolation and Universal Interconnection, Sublimation and All-Inclusiveness. Then the frame of this theory is extended into the field of the authorial fairy tale. The diploma thesis then sums up the differences and the points of contact between those two subgenres using The Story of the Eldest Princess as an example. The practical part focuses on relevant strategies of handling the body and corporeality in fairy tales. The last chapter deals with techniques of breaking the surface of the fairy tale characters' bodies, with internal destruction of the body and with the elements in between. All is...
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