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Concept of woman in André Breton's works written between 1928 and 1937
Veverková, Martina ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Pohorský, Aleš (referee)
This paper explores the concept of women in prosaic writings of André Breton, a key figure of French surrealism. The writings included are Nadja (1928), The Communicating Vessels (1932), Mad Love (1937) and Arcane 17 (1944). To Breton women were those who enable a poet to reach freedom and surreal and he wanted to love and celebrate them. However, many critics see the notion of women in his (and surrealist in general) work as isolated from a real woman, expressing only desires and ideas of a man and giving women only a passive role. In the analytical part of this paper the specific women in Breton's work are examined to evaluate the above mentioned criticism. The aim is to assess how accurate this criticism is. Also, coherence of the Breton's actual portrayal of women and his theoretical concepts is reviewed. Keywords French literature, surrealism, André Breton, woman
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Zbyněk Havlíček - Reflection of Work and Personality
Havelka, Jan ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The first part of my thesis will be about poet Zbyněk Havlíček's life and work. The work is mostly based on his heritage which is deposit in LA PNP in Prague in Strahov. The first chapter will describe the poet's personality in the view of his mother Marie and in the other part Havlíček's friends - Robert Kalivoda, Vratislav Effenberger and Josef Vyskočil - will comment his life. The second chapter will talk primarily about Havlíček's interpretation of surrealism. In this chapter I will also mention Havlíček's perception of the greatest surrealist André Breton. The last chapter will shortly introduce Zbyněk Havlíček 's poetics. The second part of the thesis will offer collection of his heritage (printed matters, manuscripts, correspondence) which is deposited in LA PNP in Prague in Strahov.
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Situation of the Surrealist Subject
Svěrák, Šimon ; Zuska, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Dadejík, Ondřej (referee)
Univerzita Karlova v Praze Filosofická fakulta katedra estetiky Diploma thesis Šimon Svěrák Situation of the Surrealist Subject (abstract) 2012 thesis supervisor: prof. PhDr. Vlastimil Zuska, CSc. Abstract This thesis focuses on the situation of a substantial subject in the historical development of the surrealist experience and confronts it with our original postmodern interpretation of thoughts of early Marx. The surrealist consciousness is based on a dialectical opposition between rational and irrational elements of cognitive processes. André Breton apprehends this dialectics under the perspective of love life and relates it to values of love, freedom and poetry. Nevertheless, this conception changes in the immanent development of the surrealist consciousness from Breton over the work and thoughts Salvador Dalí and Mikuláš Medek to Vratislav Effenberger. Effenberger removes positive values from surrealism and puts emphasis on the critical functions of the irrational. On the psychological field, all these ideas are based on the conception of the unconscious which means there is the substantial approach in them. Our critical interpretation of Marx shows, that the surrealist concept of subject is in the contradiction with its substantial determination. The subject has to be perceived as the essential...
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Karel Teige, Jan Mukařovský and Bohuslav Brouk as Theorists of Surrealism
Kuchařová, Markéta ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Vojvodík, Josef (referee)
The content of the thesis is the surrealistic object and its reflection among the czech theorists. The first part of the thesis describes the problematic of surrealistic object and subject-objective relations in surrealism. Breton's philosophical approach is introduced, as well as his concept of object's crisis. The first part also outlines the meaning of found object, concept of convulsive beauty and Dali's paranoic-critical method as a source of surrealistic imagery. The second part of the thesis is focused on the reflection of surrealistic object presentation and on relations between arts and reality according to the concepts of Jan Mukařovský. The third part of the thesis is dedicated to conceptualization of aesthetics of Bohuslav Brouk in the light of surrealism. In this part the scope of Brouk's understanding of subject-objective relations is briefly described, as well his interpretation of surrealistic object.The last part of the thesis outlines the Teige's conception of surrealistic work in the terms of the sources of surrealistic imagination.
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Concept of woman in André Breton's works written between 1928 and 1937
Veverková, Martina ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Pohorský, Aleš (referee)
This paper explores the concept of women in prosaic writings of André Breton, a key figure of French surrealism. The writings included are Nadja (1928), The Communicating Vessels (1932), Mad Love (1937) and Arcane 17 (1944). To Breton women were those who enable a poet to reach freedom and surreal and he wanted to love and celebrate them. However, many critics see the notion of women in his (and surrealist in general) work as isolated from a real woman, expressing only desires and ideas of a man and giving women only a passive role. In the analytical part of this paper the specific women in Breton's work are examined to evaluate the above mentioned criticism. The aim is to assess how accurate this criticism is. Also, coherence of the Breton's actual portrayal of women and his theoretical concepts is reviewed. Keywords French literature, surrealism, André Breton, woman
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Situation of the Surrealist Subject
Svěrák, Šimon ; Zuska, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Dadejík, Ondřej (referee)
Univerzita Karlova v Praze Filosofická fakulta katedra estetiky Diploma thesis Šimon Svěrák Situation of the Surrealist Subject (abstract) 2012 thesis supervisor: prof. PhDr. Vlastimil Zuska, CSc. Abstract This thesis focuses on the situation of a substantial subject in the historical development of the surrealist experience and confronts it with our original postmodern interpretation of thoughts of early Marx. The surrealist consciousness is based on a dialectical opposition between rational and irrational elements of cognitive processes. André Breton apprehends this dialectics under the perspective of love life and relates it to values of love, freedom and poetry. Nevertheless, this conception changes in the immanent development of the surrealist consciousness from Breton over the work and thoughts Salvador Dalí and Mikuláš Medek to Vratislav Effenberger. Effenberger removes positive values from surrealism and puts emphasis on the critical functions of the irrational. On the psychological field, all these ideas are based on the conception of the unconscious which means there is the substantial approach in them. Our critical interpretation of Marx shows, that the surrealist concept of subject is in the contradiction with its substantial determination. The subject has to be perceived as the essential...
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Zbyněk Havlíček - Reflection of Work and Personality
Havelka, Jan ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The first part of my thesis will be about poet Zbyněk Havlíček's life and work. The work is mostly based on his heritage which is deposit in LA PNP in Prague in Strahov. The first chapter will describe the poet's personality in the view of his mother Marie and in the other part Havlíček's friends - Robert Kalivoda, Vratislav Effenberger and Josef Vyskočil - will comment his life. The second chapter will talk primarily about Havlíček's interpretation of surrealism. In this chapter I will also mention Havlíček's perception of the greatest surrealist André Breton. The last chapter will shortly introduce Zbyněk Havlíček 's poetics. The second part of the thesis will offer collection of his heritage (printed matters, manuscripts, correspondence) which is deposited in LA PNP in Prague in Strahov.
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Surrealism - War of my world
DOLEJŠÍ, Klára
The bachelor thesis deals mainly with the theme and the comparison of French and Czech surrealism until their peak during the 1970s. At the same time it works with surrealism from the psychological point of view, which means free associations by Freud that were the pillars of the beginnings of surrealism as we know it today. In the practical part, the topic mentioned above is worked with because my paintings are all within the scope of surrealism.
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The Relationships Between Czech and French Surrealists
ŘEZÁČ, Jiří
The core of this work is research and analysis of documents, correspondence, memoir, and secondary reflection of relations among Czech and French surrealists, primarily from the area of literature. Attention is paid both, the Le grand jeu group and the group around Andre Breton. Based on comparisons and analysis that have been carried out, formation of mutual discursive dominant is described, together with way of their period interpretation.
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