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Milan Kundera and The Theme of Revenge in his Novels
Kršňáková, Kristýna ; Češka, Jakub (advisor) ; Novotný, Jaroslav (referee)
This thesis discusses the concept of ressentiment and revenge as a form of ressentiment in Milan Kundera's novels published in the 1960s and early 1970s, The Joke, Life is Elsewhere and The Farewell Waltz. This thesis utilises the definition of ressentiment by Friedrich Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals. This thesis aims to discuss the characters of ressentiment in the light of this definition, consider revenge as a construct and the effects of the characters' revenge on them and other characters.
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One hundred years of Švejk: tranformation of the critical reception of Jaroslav Hašek's novel
Mašek, Filip ; Malý, Radek (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
This thesis deals with one century of Czech critical reflection on Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk, i.e. the period from the publication of the first volume in 1921 to 2021. Using reviews in the press, literary critical polemics, selected literary and scientific studies and relevant articles we follow the transformation of the critical discourse about the mentioned novel. The mutual coherence of the viewed sources is ensured by the emphasis on intratextuality, the overview character of the work is complemented by references to other works. This work then not only collects individual texts in the form of bibliographic records and recapitulations of key theses, but also places them in a cultural, historical or social context using interpretive blocks. Using interpretations, we create a narrative culminating in the conclusion when we report on the evolution of the work's critical reception. After its publication, the book is accepted by a wide readership, but literary criticism ignores it with only few exceptions. The work saw rehabilitation in the second half of the 20s of the 20th century thanks to the critical polemics of the time. Since then, the novel has undergone several revisions - in the 1930s it was interpreted as a proletarian novel, during the Second World War it was banned...
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Analysis of Manuscript The Witch of Holesovice by Josef Vachal
Vlastová, Anna ; Kubíček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Blinková Pelánová, Eva (referee)
This bachelor thesis entitled "Analýza rukopisu Čarodějnice holešovická od Josefa Váchala" focuses on the analysis of the text by Josef Váchal who named it Čarodějnice holešovická aneb Vězeň v holešovickém hradě čili ROMÁN psaný za pomoci svob. zednářů. The thesis tries to present the general features of the manuscript and thus contribute to the spread of information about Josef Vachal's literary work. The manuscript was found in author's estate and now it is stored and available in The Museum of Czech Literature. The thesis mainly focuses on the analysis of the text within a composition, literary type and genre, a theme level, motive, characters and language devices. The thesis tries to pay attention to the fact that it is an unfinished text in a work- in-progress form. The work has never been published yet. KEYWORDS Czech literature, Josef Vachal, The Witch of Holesovice, manuscript
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Meditating in the Interwar Period. A Comparison of František Halas' and Josef Hora's Meditative Poetry Published from 1927 to 1936
FARKAS, Jan
This bachelor's thesis focuses on meditativeness and the spiritual conception in poetry of František Halas and Josef Hora, the two significant Czech poets of the 20th century, specifically in their collections of poetry published from 1927 to 1936. It focuses on the characteristics of approaches to meditating in both of the poets whose poems share many motives and certain themes, e.g. silence, darkness, night, love and others. It also considers the resemblance and blending of their conceptions on the one hand and their dissimilarity on the other hand; it compares the original way of grasping those themes and motives in the work of František Halas and Josef Hora in the given period of time.
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Returning of Ota B. Kraus to Czech Literature
ŽIŽKA, Vít
The diploma thesis deals with the prose of the Czech Jewish author Otto B. Kraus. The methodological part introduces the concept of the motif and the theme which helps with the understanding of important elements of the writer's work. The thesis then focuses on the life of Otto B. Kraus and the interpretation of the titles (Země bez Boha, Můj bratr dým, Vítr z hor, Vepři ve při, Obchodník se sny a jiné galilejské povídky, Cesta pouští). The motivic and thematic analysis aims to unfold the author's relationship with Czech literature of the second part of the twentieth century.
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The topic of drugs in contemporary Czech literature
PEŠKOVÁ, Martina
The dissertation will focus on the chosen books from current Czech literature that are related to drugs and the issues around this topic. The primary aim will be to interpret these works of fiction as well as the texts of authentic literature. The methodological foundation will be the psychology of literature, the author will be focusing on psychobiography, or journal evidence within her research and she will attempt to maintain interdisciplinary approach.
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An Ideal Czech Female Poet. The Poetry of Czech Woman Authors in 1870s According to Contemporary Critics
KLIKOVÁ, Marie
The diploma thesis focuses on the poetic writings of Czech poets: Albína Dvořáková-Mráčková, Berta Mühlsteinová, Eliška Krásnohorská and Irma Geisslová. These authors published their first poetry collections in the 1870s and thus actively participated in shaping Czech poetry. The poetic works of these authors are highly critically appraised (for example, and quite systematically, by Jan Neruda). Also, the thesis presents the authors' biographies and their literary activities in the 1870s (provided in the form of a complete bibliography overview). The aim of this thesis is to analyse the contemporary "ideal" image of the Czech poets and to answer the question regarding how this "ideal" image was required by contemporary reviewers and accepted by contemporary readers. The authors' poetic works are analysed with the use of electronic databases such as Retrobi and Kramerius. Also used were archival materials from the Memorial of National Literature in Prague.
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Metafictional novels of the 30s and 40s in the Czech literature
SELNER, Ondřej
This doctoral thesis focuses on literary texts containing speech acts that are in literary history and theory usually known as self-reflexive. In the first part author attempts to find inspirations for self-reflexivity in a broader historical and cultural European context as well as its potential connections to modernism. Then it tries to find relations between these modernist tendencies and Czech literary production of the day. It also deals with different views of self-reflexivity in the Czech literary theory. After dealing with these perspectives and after analysis of their potential drawbacks, thesis then moves to an attempt to find a precise meaning of self-reflexivity with respect to the term itself. On that account it analyses reflexive philosophy of major philosophers of the 1st half of the 20th century - Edmund Husserl, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The analysis of relevant works of these philosophers dealing with reflexivity leads to the formulation of a thought-map that embodies evident parallels between self-reflexivity in literature and reflexivity in philosophy. In order to verify these parallels, thesis then focuses on interpretation of major texts of Czech literature that are usually considered to be prototypes of self-reflexive novels. These are works Hra doopravdy by Richard Weiner, Rozhraní by Václav Řezáč and Hlava umělce by Milada Součková.
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