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Depiction of British Society in Selected Novels of Agatha Christie
Čechová, Anežka ; Higgins, Bernadette (advisor) ; Topolovská, Tereza (referee)
The Thesis explores how the British society is depicted in Agatha Christie's detective stories. The theoretical part introduces briefly the Golden Age of detective fiction and Christie's position within the genre. It also gives an outline of the social conditions between the Wars. The analysis is based on three country-house mysteries, the attention being paid to the classes, village and the social changes that took place in the inter-war and post-war period.
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The Cultrure of the Assembly of the Russian Nobility and its image in 19th century Russian literature
Bykanova, Yulia ; Vasilyeva, Elena (advisor) ; Rozboudová, Lenka (referee)
The subject matter of the present paper is the culture of the Russian nobility and its image in the 19th century Russian literature. The aim of the thesis is to study the issue of the closeness of the nobility to the Russian nation's culture. The theoretical part of the paper deals with the history of the nobility: its formation, advancement and prosperity. The concepts of «culture», «Russian culture» and their constituents are explored in the thesis next. This part is aimed at analyzing the main elements of the noble class' culture. A philological analysis of the two 19th century literary works, namely «Eugene Onegin» by A.S. Pushkin and «War and Peace» by L.N. Tolstoy, is conducted in the third chapter to identify the elements of the nobility's culture. After the spheres of culture have been established they were analyzed, namely the relation between the upper class' culture and the culture of the whole Russian nation; education and upbringing; everyday culture; life conditions; matters of marriage, family, love and relationships; leisure and social life; the notion of the manor as the center of the countryside culture. The study showed the examples of both elements of remoteness and closeness to the culture of Russian people. Studies carried out in the theoretical and practical part of the...
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The influence of Thomas Moore's work on Russian poetry of the 19th century
Ataniyazova, Diana ; Vasilyeva, Elena (advisor) ; Hlaváček, Antonín (referee)
This bachelor thesis studies the influence of the work of the Irish poet Thomas More on the development of Russian poetry in the 19th century. The aim of the thesis is to establish the prerequisites for influence, as well as the consequences of this influence in Russian literature. The work consists of three parts. In the first part, we got acquainted with the facts from the biography of Thomas More, which subsequently left a mark in the works of the author. In addition, we examined the poet's work from the point of view of Russian literary criticism. It is worth noting here that close attention to More's work flared up during the period of his greatest fame. The cycle of poems "Irish Melodies" served as inspiration not only for Russian society, but also interested many other consciousness in European countries. In the second part, we examined how the reforms of Peter I contributed to the emergence of Westernism and Slavophilism and how these tendencies subsequently influenced the perception of the Irish poet by the literary society in Russia, as well as how the traditions of Mohr's work are reflected in the poetry of M. Lermontov and A. Pushkin. The third part is devoted to the history of translations of Thomas Moore's works into Russian by such masters as V. Zhukovsky and I. Kozlov. The final...
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Pastoril novel: between the reality and fiction
Vojčíková, Zuzana ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (advisor) ; Housková, Anna (referee)
The work focuses on the study of Spanish pastoral novels presenting their two fundamentally different aspects. On the one hand, the thesis describes the idealised world of shephards living in harmony with nature, singing about their unrequited love. On the other, the work points out, that these novels also include some realistic elements, corrupting the mentioned idealism. It aims to answer the question, to what extent these elements appeare in the studied novels, and what is their function. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Depiction of British Society in Selected Novels of Agatha Christie
Čechová, Anežka ; Higgins, Bernadette (advisor) ; Topolovská, Tereza (referee)
The Thesis explores how the British society is depicted in Agatha Christie's detective stories. The theoretical part introduces briefly the Golden Age of detective fiction and Christie's position within the genre. It also gives an outline of the social conditions between the Wars. The analysis is based on three country-house mysteries, the attention being paid to the classes, village and the social changes that took place in the inter-war and post-war period.
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Jerónimo de Pasamonte's Autobiography in Its Literary Context
Kutová, Jaroslava ; Sánchez Fernández, Juan Antonio (advisor) ; Marešová, Jaroslava (referee)
This thesis aims to present the military autobiography of Jerónimo de Pasamonte called Jerónimo de Pasamonte's Life and Suffering finished in the XVII th century. Firstly, the genre of autobiography and its specifics are discussed, subsequently autobiographies of the XVIth and XVIIth century, such as the picaresque novel, religious and military autobiographies, are mentioned. Pasamonte's autobiography itself is discussed both formally (its language, style and structure are defined) and thematically - issues such as captivity and picaresque features within the Life are brought up. We shall study also its intention and veracity. Discussion is held about the theory that Pasamonte is the author of the fake second part of Cervantes' Quijote. Along, other topics are raised: the alike fate of Cervantes and Pasamonte or Pasamonte's being ridiculed by Cervantes in his Quijote. The aim of this thesis is to present the work of Jerónimo de Pasamonte's Life and Suffering, compare it to other contemporary genres, point out its formal and thematical characteristics and parting from acquired analysis conclude what its contribution to literature and contemporary reader is.
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Courtly and moralistic literature and Spanish aristocratic society of the Golden Age
ELEXHAUSEROVÁ, Jana
The major theme of this thesis is {\clq}qCourtly and moralistic literature and Spanish aristocratic society of the Golden Age``. The goal is to portray european courtly-moral literature, which described aristocratic society of 16th and 17th century. Thesis is devided into six chapters, each presents one of the essential works of art which have influenced the behaviour of the society of the court and which have contributed to the mentality changes of the noble class. The reader thus gains not only a comprehensive picture of Spanish courtly literature and culture of the Golden Age, but of the Spanish courtly society as a whole.
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