|
|
Literary texts and their adaptations in teaching of Czech as a foreign language
Nedbalová, Monika ; Klumparová, Štěpánka (advisor) ; Nerlich, Lenka (referee)
The thesis deals with possible applications of literary texts in teaching of czech as a foreign language. The first part summarizes the position of literature within the framework of respective methodical directions both in the past and today and also what status is attributed to literature in teaching of foreign languages by contemporary education legislation (especially the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). The work also includes an analysis of czech language textbooks for foreigners and of other publications based on the inclusion frequency of literary excerpts, on their type and potential didactic utilization. The theoretical part of the thesis contains chapters, which deal with the significance of literature in the teaching of foreign languages, in particular with literary texts and the definition of reader's competence, which are an important basis for the practical part of the work. The practical part contains four lesson proposals built upon working with specific literary texts (one prosaic and three poetic texts). The proposed lessons are suitable for level B1 and B1+ and combine reading of czech literature with education of intercultural competence (particularly important is the historical and cultural context of the period between years 1948 and 1989, in which the...
|
|
|
Prague in a work of Clara Janés
Strachotová, Alžběta ; Housková, Anna (advisor) ; Škodová, Denisa (referee)
The following bachelor's thesis deals with the work of Spanish author Clara Janés and it focuses on her works about Prague. The first part outlines her biography. The theoretical chapter deals with the definitions from the studies about the space in the literature. The following part discribes her visits to Prague and mentions also the circumstances of her meetings with Vladimír Holan, who represents an important figure in her works about this city. The main part consists of the analysises of her works, particulary the lyrical-memoir prose The Voice of Ophelia, the collection od poems Kampa and several seperate poems from other collections. The interpretetation has a thematological basis and it focuses on the author's relation to the city and to the Bohemia. It concers about the general question of genius loci, the literary topos of the city and the way of lyrical perception of a city by a stranger. The description of the composition and the language of analysed work is also included. The final chapter summarizes all the knowledge, and charaterizes the literary style of the author, while using the conclusions from the analysis. The thesis is based primarly on the author's works, followed by theoretical studies about this topic and also on yet existing interpretations of the particular works. Powered by...
|
|
| |
|
|
The New York School Poets and Visual Arts: The Poetry of John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara
Žůrková, Michaela ; Veselá, Pavla (advisor) ; Robbins, David Lee (referee)
The New York School Poets and Visual Arts: The Poetry of John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara The poetry of the New York School poets is highly influenced by visual art; the poets, such as Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and John Schuyler, were affected mainly by Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, Cubism and Dada. The reason why visual art had such a strong effect on their poetry is that the painters of the New York School dominated the art world, they set the trends, and poets and musicians followed them. Also, visual art played a major role in the lives of the poets as many of them were art critics and they often collaborated with the artists. The thesis focuses on two of the New York School poets, O'Hara and Ashbery, as the influence of visual art in their poetry is most prominent in comparison to the other New York School poets. O'Hara mainly uses the techniques of Abstract Expressionism and he is mostly interested in the art of Jackson Pollock. O'Hara's poems carry immediacy and they are based on the expression of the present moment. The focus on the present parallels with the techniques of action painting which channels the artist's self and emotions. The use of such techniques as the "push" and "pull" theory, and the work with the surface and perspective are displayed within experimenting with the...
|
|
|
"To be a tree where there is no hubbub": Poetics of Solitude in the Works of Ludmila Macešková
Boháčová, Kristýna ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Vojtěch, Daniel (referee)
The thesis follows the line of solitude in the poetry of Jan Kameník (which is the pen name of Ludmila Macešková). It notices the impossibility of classifying him into the literary groups active from 40's to 60's. It also observes his dramatic way which was motivated by desire to find the expression for his spiritual experience. First, the thesis focuses on places which illustrate the phases during the way. Then it centres on the poetic language which moves to the boundaries of communicability. Last, it comes to the touch like specific revelation of name where all differences are overcame.
|
|
|
Vladimír Houdek
Paulus, Petr ; Merhaut, Luboš (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
This thesis deals with the forgotten poet Vladimír Houdek, whose only two books were published during the turn of the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Emphasis is placed on all of the available materials about his work and life. Based on the analysis of these sources and literary-historical characteristics of author's texts and their motives, my work tries to determine the place of Vladimír Houdek in Czech literature. It introduces the contemporary response of his poetry and compares it with other poet's work at the same time.
|
|
|
Rhythm, sound and form in the work of art of Nicolás Guillén, Sóngoro Cosongo
Grešová, Martina ; Poláková, Dora (advisor) ; Kazmar, Vít (referee)
(English) Caribbean island of Cuba has enriched the world of sugar, rum, cigars, as well as music, dance and poetry. This is what will be the main topic of the given thesis. The art of the early 20th century has changed the view of the island and its inhabitants to a black man who became the center of attention and was the author and the source of inspiration, whether a black man or a white man. His temperament and culture, tradition and character are all aspects that affect the production of artists who devoted phenomenon called Negro poetry. One of the best-known and most influential, as Negro poet or as he says, mulato poetry is concerned, is undoubtedly, Nicolás Guillén. Man from Cuba, who was not afraid to talk about the race issues, even not afraid to open sensitive subject so as to help Cuba to consider the question of nation and culture. The main theme of the thesis, as the title of the thesis implies, sound, rhythm and format collection Sóngoro Cosongo and her selected poems. We will seek a more comprehensive view of the poems that were synonymous with the 1931 revolution. Gradually, we clarify the origin and intensively devote term as bozal, Negro poetry, son, pregón poetic form and rhythm. In conclusion, we will try analyze poem La canción del Bongo and to find the best sound, rhythmic...
|
|
|
Stanislav Zedníček: The Miserable Seeker
Čeplová, Miroslava ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
This work, focusing on the person of Stanislav Zedníček, delineates poet's position in literal context of his and so of our time through study of extant documents, correspondence and other archives. The aim of this work is also to found specifics of Zedníček's poetry and to relate his work with group of authors like Jakub Deml, Vladimír Holan, František Halas, Jan Čep, Jan Zahradníček and Jaroslav Durych.
|
|
|
The New America in Beat Literature:Spontaneous, Far Out, and All That Jazz
Novická, Tereza ; Armand, Louis (advisor) ; Vichnar, David (referee)
1 Thesis Abstract This thesis establishes the Beat Generation as part of the American literary canon despite its rejection of the literary establishment and academic criticism of its day. The portrayal of the American postwar zeitgeist in Beat literature is examined through the innovative literary techniques proposed by Jack Kerouac based on jazz characteristics. The revitalization of poetic and narrative form are identified in Allen Ginsberg's earliest published poetry, notably "Howl; for Carl Solomon" (Howl and Other Poems, 1956), Kerouac's novels On the Road and Visions of Cody and his long poem Mexico City Blues, respectively. The emergence and peak of the initially marginal Beat literary movement that gave rise to the affiliated beatnik subculture illustrates the tradition of avant-garde art becoming incorporated into establishment culture. The first chapter outlines the political and cultural hegemony of the conservative fifties in America with focus on cultural and historical aspects relevant and parallel to the surfacing and development of the Beat/beatnik counterculture, i.e. Cold War policies, McCarthyism, poetic movements, the emergence of bebop and its innovations. The second chapter provides an in- depth analysis of Beat writing in reference to jazz as subject-matter and as influence on both...
|
|
|
Samuel Beckett. Form the essay Dante...Bruno . Vico...Joyce to the novel Molloy
Fiala, Vladimír ; Pelán, Jiří (advisor) ; Jamek, Václav (referee) ; Pechar, Jiří (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to provide a comprehensive view of the works of Samuel Beckett from the beginning to the novel Molloy. It is based on analysis of individual works and the subsequent attempt to uncover their interconnections. The thesis is divided into three parts: theory, poetry and prose. The first part deals mainly with the concept of incoherent reality which Beckett speaks about for the first time in his essay Proust and then returns to in other texts. In the novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women he makes it the basis of his own aesthetic. Behind the phenomena of the outer world lies chaos and nothingness and the artist's task is to integrate it into his work. The second part discusses the changes in the subject of the poems, his being or not being in particular surroundings, the amount of literary allusions, the themes and the form of the poems, above all the particular techniques Beckett uses and the degree of their regularity and elaboration. The third part raises similar questions about prose. The unquestionable centre of Beckett's poems and prose is the subject of the poems and the main character, characterized by tension between inside and outside. The change in the character is caused by outweighing of the tendency to stay inside. This also results in the reduction in allusions...
|
guest ::
