|
|
Czech Underground Female Writers
Kubáč, Vilém ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Machovec, Martin (referee)
This thesis will concentrate on Czech underground women writers. It takes into account the phenomenon of "women's writing" and the positionof women writers within mainly male underground community.It assumes that the women writers in Czech underground consciouslycreated within the "women's writing" or that they were influencedby feminism. The thesis poses a question whether women writers in the underground were more emancipatedthan official or engaged writers in other countercultural communities,and also than women in the underground and outside the underground who were not literaryactive. It compares the work and the position of the women writers in the Czech underground with the those who createdliterature in the West. Female underground creators were very often engaged in music or visual arts, so the comparison with their other artistic activitieswill be important too. The thesis will focuse onthe period of culture startingfrom the 50s and the phenomenon of the "Edice Půlnoc" and Jana Krejcarová to the punk generation of the 80s.
|
|
|
The Theatre Plays by Hélène Cixous for Théâtre du Soleil
Kuslová, Kristýna ; Christov, Petr (advisor) ; Sarkissian, Alena (referee)
The thesis deals with four plays written by French dramatist and theorist of feminism Hélène Cixous for the Parisian Théâtre du Soleil under the directorial guidance of Ariane Mnouchkine. The analysis focuses on three different perspectives - firstly on écriture feminine, defined in the 1970s by Cixous herself, secondly on exile studies, a field of literary criticism concerned with the writings of exiled authors and exile as a fundamental category of human existence, and lastly on the concept of orientalism developed in the 1970s by American literary historian of Palestinian origin Edward Said.
|
|
|
Archetypal analysis of Radka Denemarkova's novel Příspěvek k dějinám radosti
Pavlisová, Petra ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (advisor) ; Baslarová, Iva (referee)
This master thesis constitutes the feminist archetypal analyses of a novel Příspěvek k dějinám radosti written by Radka Denemarková. It approaches the problematics with an intesectional point of view focused on rape-revenge. The methodological and theoretical part introduces the work of the novelist Radka Denemarková and her style of writting that is characterized as feminine writting, which is also defined in the thesis and specified by examples. Besides analysis of archetypes which are part of feminist theoretical texts, the analytical part analyses particular characters of the novel that are divided in three groups: the characters that take revenge on rape, those characters who rape or are part of groups that rapes others, the third group links previous two and the characters are part of police investigations of a murder. The thesis analyses archetypes of femininity that prevail in the novel and masculinity that are in minority.
|
|
|
The Concept of Violence in Kobold, a Novel by Radka Denemarková
Fridrichová, Jana ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (advisor) ; Baslarová, Iva (referee)
The master's thesis The Concept of Violence in Kobold, a Novel by Radka Denemarková inquires into a representation of violence in the selected literary text, written by a Czech author, from the perspective of gender analysis. Integral part of the master's thesis is the writing style "feminine writing", in which the double-novel Kobold is written. The analysis is carried out in the context of feminist literary theories. The work is therefore based on the concept of resistant reading, which is inseparably associated with the name of Judith Fetterley, and which allows us to examine the text without being influenced by the author's concept. Other inseparable pillars of this master's thesis are the works of literary theorists Pam Morris, Elain Showalter, Jan Matonoha and Hélène Cixous. Keywords: gender, resistant reading, "feminine writing", violence
|
|
|
Gender Consciousness and Representation in Virginia Woolf's Writing in Light of Contemporary Feminism and Gender Theory
Hrbková, Martina ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to analyse Virginia Woolf's novels and non-fiction in light of several recent trends in feminism and gender theory relevant to her work. The thesis considers Woolf's label of a feminist writer from a contemporary perspective. It examines a variety of ways in which her writing poses a challenge to patriarchal values regarding the treatment and representation of women. Woolf's position regarding gender issues, women and feminism is not monolithic or unified which must be accounted for. At points, some of her stances can be seen as problematic from a present-day feminist perspective. At the same time, in her work she raises concerns which have been relevant for and expanded by proponents of contemporary feminism and gender theory. The thesis focuses on three areas regarding gender awareness and representation in Woolf's work. They are her narrative style, the sociopolitical context of her work and the questioning of gender categories. Woolf's narrative style and strategies are viewed in light of écriture féminine as conceptualised by Hélène Cixous. Through her manner of writing Woolf aimed to disrupt established ways of narrating women's experience. Her concept of the woman's sentence can be seen as foreshadowing écriture féminine. Apart from her style, Woolf's development as a...
|
|
|
The feminine world in the work of María Luisa Bombal
Norocká, Monika ; Poláková, Dora (advisor) ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (referee)
This work examines writing of the Chilean author, M. L. Bombal (1910-1980), one of the first exponents of surrealism in prose in the region of Latin America. The work presents the position of women in the Latin American society of the first half of the 20th century to the reader, and on this background attempts to analyze the feminine world the author creates in her work. It focuses on its heroines and situations they live in and on this basis, investigates different components of their world - matrimony, love, sexual life, dream-like world and their fusion with nature. Another objective of the present work is to put in contrast of the feminine and masculine worlds and to capture the difference between them. It also briefly comments on the problems of feminism and its potential influence on the Bombal's narrative. Keywords: María Luisa Bombal, The House of Mist, The Shrouded Woman, feminine literature, surrealism
|
|
|
The Theatre Plays by Hélène Cixous for Théâtre du Soleil
Kuslová, Kristýna ; Christov, Petr (advisor) ; Sarkissian, Alena (referee)
The thesis deals with four plays written by French dramatist and theorist of feminism Hélène Cixous for the Parisian Théâtre du Soleil under the directorial guidance of Ariane Mnouchkine. The analysis focuses on three different perspectives - firstly on écriture feminine, defined in the 1970s by Cixous herself, secondly on exile studies, a field of literary criticism concerned with the writings of exiled authors and exile as a fundamental category of human existence, and lastly on the concept of orientalism developed in the 1970s by American literary historian of Palestinian origin Edward Said.
|
guest ::
RSS feed.