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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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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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Metaphors and New Dictionaries of Contemporary Czech Poetry
STANĚK, Libor
The presented dissertation will focus, through neo-pragmatic and post-analytic interpretation, on the discussed discourse of current domestic lyric poetry which is delimited by the period from the revolutionary year of 1989 to the present day. Based on this theoretical background, which will be primarily explained in the methodological part, we will perceive the mentioned literary territory as a certain playing field with specifically defined rules. The work will try to find within the scope of these rules a certain type of successful metaphors (for example "environmental lyric poetry", "conceptual writing", "millennial poetry") and vocabularies connected to them including the speech strategies initiating the new notion apparatus of current Czech poetry. The concept of metaphor will be treated in this work according to the theory of Donald Davidson who comes with an opinion that metaphor does not have any particular cognitive content but it is merely a language game requiring rather an appreciation than clarification. In connection to this theory, the study will try to evaluate the pragmatic approach of Richard Rorty, particularly his ideas about the randomness of language. These ideas will also be an important method on which basis we will examine the presented poetic material. The main merit of this dissertation is five case studies from the already mentioned time period which by means of theoretical postulates mentioned above focus on the interpretation of our delimited poetic field in which we will try to talk about successful metaphors generating new productive vocabularies maintaining the flow of speech on the topic of current Czech poetry.
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"It wasn't the season of summer. It was the season of you." Pavel Buksa in Viola Fischerová's oeuvre.
Tykalová, Tereza ; Neumann, Lukáš (advisor) ; Peterka, Josef (referee)
This dissertation intends to explore the effect of Pavel Buksa's death on the oeuvre of Viola Fischerová. Attention will be paid to the effect this event had on the author, and also to the manner in which Fischerová describes Buksa, the concrete techniques she uses, and the ways in which this figure and her perspective of him changes in individual anthologies. The author will be presented and her work placed in the contemporary literary climate. The following section will briefly introduce Pavel Buksa. The main body of the dissertation will present an analysis of the work and will emphasise an exploration of the way Buksa is characterised. KEYWORDS Viola Fischerová, Pavekl Buksa, death, suicide, love
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Poetry Writing as a “Meeting” with the Czech Past and Present. The Exile Poetry of Ivan Diviš‘s Departure from Bohemia
Flanderka, Jakub
The Exile Poetry of Ivan Diviš‘s Departure from Bohemia deals with Ivan Diviš’s poetic work Odchod z Čech (Departure from Bohemia), which is composed as a stylized “meeting” of a poetic subject with the external world. This “meeting” revolves especially around the themes of emigration and living in exile, and the situation in Czechoslovakia during the period of “normalisation”, which was a particularly strong one for the author, as well as the contemplation of the poet’s subject over his relationship to the motherland. Diviš’s leaving Czechoslovakia was the resolution of an arduous moment in his life, when – as an individual – he came into a clash with momentous historical events (and not for the first time). As such, this became an opportunity for him to reconsider the theme of Czech national identity and milestones of Czech history through his poetry.
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The Prague Legends in the Poems of Sebestian Hnevkovsky
Vítová, Andrea
The gripping stories of the old-Prague legends inhabited by supernatural beings and bringing moral advice, gave to the balladic poems of Sebestian Hnevkovsky, the autor of the Enlightment period, a suitable base for the travestying interpretations satirically focused on the contemporary society.\nThe tales of the princess Drahomira or of the ”devil´s“ obelisk at Vyšehrad, composed by Hnevkovsky in the early 19th century (i. e. in the epoch of the Puchmajer´s anthologies) were focused on the ordinary city people. The content reminding of the well-known stories and the simple way of narration enabled the author to fulfil his intention: to address a wide audience of readers and to amuse them. In his later works from the 1840s Hnevkovsky inclined namely to the genre of historical legend and to the romantic aspects of the Prague legends. However, even in this later poems (Šemík or Podvyšehradská hlubina) he didn´t give up the methods and motives characteristic for the haunted tales from the early 19th century that attracted attention of readers.
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The probing of the Czech poetry of the 90. years of the 20. century
Manová, Vilma ; Wiendl, Jan (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
This thesis examines the poetry of poets who officially entered the Czech literary scene in 1990s - after The Velvet Revolution. That was a period of time when Czech literary life changed completely. The thesis focuses on the artists born during the 1960s and the early 1970s - Petr Borkovec, Martin Langer, Pavel Kolmačka and Petr Hruška. The thesis concentrates on the analysis of their first two individual collections published between 1990-1998. What is important is the fact that the authors are not negatively influenced by the cultural politics from the communism era. First, the thesis outlines the events on the Czech literary scene after the revolution. Then it offers a view of the individual poets' works. This part also presents the critical reflection of the period, while the main focus is on the interpretation of poetic works. Through analytical reading this thesis follows the fundamental motive constants and it also reflects other important components of the early authorial poetics. The aim is to point out the tendencies in young Czech poetry at the time of sudden multiplicity of possibilities and to prove or disprove the presence of traditional poetics. Keywords: Czech poetry, 1990, poetic debut, Petr Borkovec, Martin Langer, Pavel Kolmačka, Petr Hruška
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Myth and Memory in Poetry of Karel Šiktanc
Svatoňová, Eva ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
This thesis is focused on poetry of Karel Šiktanc published between 1966 and 1977. Its purpose is to interpret four of his books from this period (Zaříkávání živých, Adam a Eva, Český orloj, Tanec smrti aneb Pámbu ještě neumřel), dealing especially with themes that are common to all of them. The main theme interpreted in this thesis is the poet's concept of a man firmly rooted in society and in space, being connected with their history. The ambition of this thesis is to explain how Šiktanc builds the portrayal of an individual human, whose being is determined by the community, in which he or she lives, acquires its language, memory and history (dated back to the mythic past), and who is also a part of its great story.
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