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Gothic and Realistic Features in the Works of Flannery O´Connor and Carson McCullers
ZÁHOROVÁ, Zuzana
The diploma thesis focuses on a comparative analysis of Flannery O'Connor's and Carson McCullers' Southern Gothic literary works. Special emphasis is put on the relationship between the gothic and realistic features. The comparative analysis is based on the characterisation of Southern Gothic literature (the landscape and environment as the main focus), which leads to the specification of its main features. Individual chapters contain O'Connor's and McCullers' biographies. The comparative analysis itself concentrates on the description of the heroes and their relationships, the function of landscape, the meaning of grotesque motifs, the connection of traditional and comical features, the influence of past, the role of religion and the issue of good and evil.
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The Significance of Meaning Shift of the Word "Slave" in Abolishing Slavery in the United States
Matsche, Denisa ; Toth, Gyorgy (advisor) ; Raková, Svatava (referee)
This thesis focuses on the abolition of slavery in the United States. It examines the power role of discourse in maintaining and abolishing slavery in the United States, particularly the proslavery and the antislavery discourse of the antebellum South. The thesis examines two competing concepts of human bondage which originated in the proslavery and antislavery discourses-that of the slave-as-commodity, the proslavery concept, on the one hand, and the slave-as-human, the anti-slavery concept, on the other. It aims to discuss the significance of meaning shift of the word "slave" from slave-as-commodity to that of slave-as-human, the antislavery concept. Taking into account the very subjectivity of the meanings assigned to the words "black" and "slave", the thesis will demonstrate that in U.S. social and political discourse, the meaning of "slave" was not fixed and underwent significant changes over time. This thesis suggests that the abolition of slavery in the United States can be perceived as a result of "a battle for truth" between the proslavery and the antislavery discourse. The new emphasis on the universal humanity of both "races" in the nineteenth century helped abolitionists link the issue of slavery to a progressive discourse of unalienable personal liberties. I argued that even though the...
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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...
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Media image of Barack Obamaˇs prezidential campaign in dailies Mladá fronta and Hospodářské noviny
Čermáková, Jana ; Němcová Tejkalová, Alice (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
This Bachelor thesis, entitled, "Media image of Barack Obama's presidential campaign in the dailies Mlada Fronta and Hospodarske noviny", examines the presentation of an Afroamerican politician during the primary and general American Presidential election period. It covers the peak primary election campaign and the finish of that campaign, and the start of the general election in 2008. The articles and reports published in the selected period and pursued this theme at length, were subsequently processed by the method of qualitative analysis. The goal is to show Barack Obama's exact media image as presented by both dailies, and this thesis also focuses on whether the coverage of the democratic candidate was aimed primarily at presenting him as an Afroamerican. An important resource for research was media theory that deals with the way the media shows ethnic and national minorities. The object was therefore to study the stereotypical view of the group and when describing Barack Obama based on racial stereotypes. In conclusion is outlined the resulting media image of the Democratic candidate, and is specifically pointed out the errors made by the media in describing Barack Obama. Keywords Barack Obama, american presidential election, election campaign, media, black, Afroamerican, stereotype
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