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Lu Xun's Short Story "Zhufu" and its Film Adaptation
Kratochvíl, Radim ; Andrš, Dušan (advisor) ; Lomová, Olga (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on a comparison of Lu Xun's short story "The New Year's Sacrifice" from 1924 and its cinematic adaptation of the same name from 1956. Aside from being a comparison of concrete semantic similarities and diversions between the two narratives, the thesis is also a reflection of the reasons behind these changes in a different historical and ideological context. For simple comparison of the two narratives, we have used modern narratological studies taking into account specifics of literature and cinema. As a mean of searching for semantic differences between the short story and its cinematic adaptation we have used the three following thematic issues. These are "motive of a woman", "characters between tradition and modernity", and "role of a narrator". The performed comparison suggests that semantic shifts happened in all three thematic fields even though with a different emphasis on each. While some of the meaning-making elements were emphasised in the cinematic adaptation, others changed or even developed a new meaning. The results of the research urge consideration about the many possibilities and ways of manipulating an artistic composition from the point of ideological demand in the historical context of an adaptation's development. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Literary Creation of Petru Popescu in Context of Romanian Post-war Literature
Horáková, Jarmila ; Valentová, Libuše (advisor) ; Šrámek, Jiří (referee) ; Vajdová, Libuša (referee)
During the communist era in Romania the literature and its authors had been under pressure of normative demands, which substantially restricted freedom of writing. The authors tried to escape the official socialist realism and restore the esthetic function of literature. In the introduction chapter of this work this evolution is described. One of the authors trying to restore the esthetic function of Romanian prose in the 60s was Petru Popescu inspired by the urban background and American literature. His novels express the emotions of the Romanian post-war young generation. Although being successful in his homeland he emmigrated to the USA in 1974, where he made a career as an English writing scenarist and novelist. Other chapters of this thesis describe his work from his poetic debut until his latest work. They reflect the changes in his choices of topics and narrative methods applying the F. K. Stanzel's literary theory. One of the chapters deals with general questions related to exile, writer's identity, selection of the languages and adaptation strategies. Key words: monograph, post-war literature, exile literature, communist regime, July Thesis, Ceaușescu's regime, bilingualism, popular fiction, narrator's role, fiction and non-fiction, adaptation, identity, creative nonfiction
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