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Media reception of Allen Ginsberg may's visit in Prague 1965
Randuška, David ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Media reception of Allen Ginsberg may's visit in Prague 1965" analyzes articles of the Czechoslovak and foreign periodicals, which react to the American beatnik's curious visit in Prague 1965. Author of the thesis first creates the biographical and literature context of the famous poet and briefly presents main protagonists of the "beat generation". The main part of a thesis consists of processing media reception and authentic visit of Allen Ginsberg. Author qualitative describes events from perspectives of witnesses, historians, also as contrasting perspective of StB agents, who wrote a final report of poet's visit in the Czechoslovakia. By the search retrieval, author searches thematic articles in the Czechoslovak official, exile, and foreign press. Analysis of examined material brings interesting differences between censored and unattached periodicals. Furthermore the thesis describes the effects of Ginsberg's visit to Czechoslovak culture, society and beat generation authors.
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Understanding Space and Landscape in Jack Kerouac's Novels
HANISCHOVÁ, Sandra
In the introduction of this thesis I will introduce the main authors of the beat generation and their thought reference. The thesis then focuses on the understanding of space and the landscape in Jack Kerouac's novels (On the Road, Big Sur) in connection with the theme of the creation of the Beat Generation (search for the meaning of human existence, the motif of the road, spiritualism and the relation to religion). One of the chapters of this thesis compares the biographical facts of the representatives of the beat generation (Kerouac, Ferlinghetti) and the autobiographical features of Jack Kerouac's work, especially in the novel Big Sur. The conclusion of the thesis summarizes Kerouac's image of literary California and its space perception of America as an unit.
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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...
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Media reception of Allen Ginsberg may's visit in Prague 1965
Randuška, David ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Media reception of Allen Ginsberg may's visit in Prague 1965" analyzes articles of the Czechoslovak and foreign periodicals, which react to the American beatnik's curious visit in Prague 1965. Author of the thesis first creates the biographical and literature context of the famous poet and briefly presents main protagonists of the "beat generation". The main part of a thesis consists of processing media reception and authentic visit of Allen Ginsberg. Author qualitative describes events from perspectives of witnesses, historians, also as contrasting perspective of StB agents, who wrote a final report of poet's visit in the Czechoslovakia. By the search retrieval, author searches thematic articles in the Czechoslovak official, exile, and foreign press. Analysis of examined material brings interesting differences between censored and unattached periodicals. Furthermore the thesis describes the effects of Ginsberg's visit to Czechoslovak culture, society and beat generation authors.
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Jan Zábrana - a translator and a poet. Inspiration by and translations of Beat poetry
Eliáš, Petr ; Kalivodová, Eva (advisor) ; Josek, Jiří (referee)
The diploma thesis Jan Zábrana, translator and poet - translating poetry while inspired by it? examines the relationship between the original works of Jan Zábrana and his translations, taking into account the similar thematic and formal inclinations of all the authors and the sociocultural context, preventing Jan Zábrana from publishing his own poetry. Based on the analysis of three variants of Zábrana's poem collections Utkvělé černé ikony, Stránky z deníku and Samosoud and his translations of poems by Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso and Kenneth Patchen, the thesis aims at finding the tendencies and models present both in Zábrana's original poems and his translations.
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