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Visual interpretation of literary works of Jules Verne
FRENCL, Ondřej
This master thesis called Comics Paraphrase of Jules Verne´s Original Book consists of a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part is focused on the personality of Jules Verne, his literary works and his influence on the genre of science fiction. The thesis is also dealing with adaptations of the book Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. The final section of the theoretical part is presenting comics as an art form. The practical part consists of a realization of a set of drawings in the form of a comic book, a documentation of the drawing workflow is a part of annex I. - IV.
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Novel adaptations for youths
Položijová, Jana ; Špirit, Michael (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee)
The thesis focuses on literary adaptations and their relations to the originals. First the adaptation as a literary genre is introduced, together with the history of clasical works adaptations for children in Czech literature. The main body of the thesis compares three novels written by Jules Verne, namely: Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island, and their adaptations by Ondřej Neff. In case of the Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen Ondřej Neff mostly preserves the original story line, whereas there are changes related to the ending of the story, in which new involutions and conclusions are introduced. The novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is the most modified of the compared novels. Ondřej Neff comes up with new story lines changing the backbone of the novel. Even personalities of some main characters are distinctively changed, including captain Nemo. The novel The Mysterious Island is the least changed; Ondřej Neff altered mainly the descriptive scenes, which were shortened or completely ommited to make the text more dynamic. In the end of the thesis results of a short questionary are reported; the attitude of young readers to adaptations and their purpose and functionality are assesed.
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