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Comparative analysis of book reviews on the social site Instagram and in literary magazines
Sladovníková, Eliška ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Malý, Radek (referee)
The popularity of bookstagram accounts is gaining momentum and reach. For this reason, the thesis focuses on the format of book reviews both on Instagram and in literary and online magazines. The aim of the thesis is to define the structure of book reviews on Instagram and in literary magazines, the nature of bookstagram, and, above all, to assess whether bookstagram influences literary reviews. Another objective is to explore the perspectives of literary reviewers and bookstagrammers on book content on Instagram. The theoretical part mainly deals with the definition of book reviews and literary criticism, methods of text interpretation, and also defines new media and social networks, with a specific focus on bookstagram. In the analytical part, book reviews of Šikmý kostel are first described through direct description in both types of media. Subsequently, they are compared in several key categories such as the presence of the book's context, language form, or topics. Semi-structured interviews with literary reviewers and bookstagrammers follow, including two informants who engage with both media. The research section thoroughly analyzes the structure of book reviews and the opinions of their authors, providing insights into the characteristics of high-quality reviews, texts on bookstagram, and...
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Literary - critical response of selected works by Jostein Gaarder
Benešová, Anežka ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Malý, Radek (referee)
The bachelor theses deals with two works written by Norwegian writer and philosopher Jostein Gaarder, the novel The Orange Girl (2004) and the novel The Castle in the Pyrenees (2011), and their selected critical responses. The aim of this thesis is to interpret both works and place them in the context of their critical responses. The theoretical part of the thesis introduces the personality of the author, his life and the features characteristic of his work, and in a separate chapter further defines the terms literary criticism, review and interpretation. The practical part is divided into two chapters, each of which is devoted to one of the selected literary works - it offers its interpretation and analysis of Critical responses, which include Czech, German and English review published in the daily press, online media and culturally oriented periodicals or websites. The analysis of individual literary Critical texts is followed by separate subchapters that summarize the findings regarding the common features or differences of the analyzed reviews.
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Critical Responses of Selected Works By Petr Stančík in the Czech Media
Bočková, Jana ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Malý, Radek (referee)
This Master's thesis focuses on the analysis of the critical responses in Czech media to selected works of Petr Stančík. The theoretical part focuses on the definition of the terms literary criticism, postmodernity and postmodernism. The literary criticism chapter features a subsection about the current situation of literary reviews in the Czech Republic with a focus on reviews of children's books. The theoretical part also includes a characterization of the cultural and literary print and online media. The media included in the analysis are cultural and literary print and online periodicals A2, Host, iLiteratura.cz, Tvar and Týdeník Rozhlas, and newspapers and web Aktuálně.cz, Hospodářské noviny, Lidové noviny, Mladá fronta DNES, Právo, Reflex and Respekt. The thesis also includes a profile of the author himself and his literary and theatre works. The practical part of the Master's thesis maps the critical responses to three books by Petr Stančík - Mrkev ho vcucla pod zem (2013), Mlýn na mumie (2013) and Andělí vejce (2016), in the chosen Czech media. The analysis is divided into chapters by the chosen books. First, the individual reviews are analysed and then the findings are summarised in the relevant subsections. As part of the work, an interview with Petr Stančík that was done on 30th January...
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One hundred years of Švejk: tranformation of the critical reception of Jaroslav Hašek's novel
Mašek, Filip ; Malý, Radek (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
This thesis deals with one century of Czech critical reflection on Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk, i.e. the period from the publication of the first volume in 1921 to 2021. Using reviews in the press, literary critical polemics, selected literary and scientific studies and relevant articles we follow the transformation of the critical discourse about the mentioned novel. The mutual coherence of the viewed sources is ensured by the emphasis on intratextuality, the overview character of the work is complemented by references to other works. This work then not only collects individual texts in the form of bibliographic records and recapitulations of key theses, but also places them in a cultural, historical or social context using interpretive blocks. Using interpretations, we create a narrative culminating in the conclusion when we report on the evolution of the work's critical reception. After its publication, the book is accepted by a wide readership, but literary criticism ignores it with only few exceptions. The work saw rehabilitation in the second half of the 20s of the 20th century thanks to the critical polemics of the time. Since then, the novel has undergone several revisions - in the 1930s it was interpreted as a proletarian novel, during the Second World War it was banned...
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Critical Reflection of Slelected Works of Karin Lednická and Jakuba Katalpa in the Czech Media
Maděrová, Anna ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Malý, Radek (referee)
The diploma thesis entitled Critical reflection of selected works of Karin Lednická and Jakuba Katalpa in the Czech media deals with the topic of contemporary Czech literature returning to the history of the 20th century. Specifically, it analyzes the critical response to Karin Lednická's novel chronicles Šikmý kostel I-II (Leaning Church I-II) and Jakub Katalpa's novels Němci (Germans) and Zuzanin dech (Zuzana's Breath). The theoretical chapters deal with the concepts of criticism and reflection, the introduction of literary periodicals and selected female authors, the characteristics of the chosen literary phenomenon or the definition of the interview genre. In the practical part, critical reflections of the works Šikmý kostel I-II (Leaning Church I-II), Němci (Germans) and Zuzanin dech (Zuzana's Breath) published in literary periodicals, daily press, online or as radio contributions are analysed. The aim of the work is to map the critical responses to the works, put them into context and answer the basic research question - how critics and reviewers evaluate the selected works of the authors Karin Lednická and Jakuba Katalpa.
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Cultural Image of Northern Bohemia in Contemporary Czech Literature
Kubelka, Jan ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Malý, Radek (referee)
This thesis focuses on literary representation of North Bohemia region in five prose works of contemporary Czech literature. These pieces consist of Grandhotel (2006) by Jaroslav Rudiš, Daniel Petr's Straka na šibenici (2015), Jakub Dotlačil's Až zhasneme (2019), Veronika Bendová's Vytěženej kraj (2019) and Tři kapitoly (2020) by Daniel Hradecký. First part of the thesis follows geographical, historical, and socioeconomic context of North Bohemia. Second part firstly analyses the difference between literary and non- literary reality, with focus on the theory of possible worlds. Furthermore, it covers key concept of space while using perspective of structuralism and narratology combined with perspective of thematology. In practical part of the thesis selected literary works are being analysed. This interpretation is based on presented literary and media theory and on the analysis of critics and reviews published in media. The aim of the thesis is to summarize individual analysis and to map, how North Bohemia region is being presented by contemporary Czech literature.
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Media reception of Michel Houellebecq's work in Czech media
Brys, Martin ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Maňák, Vratislav (referee)
The thesis presents an analysis of the critical response to Michel Houellebecq's books Elementary Particles (1998), Platform (2001), Submission (2015). In the theoretical part, the concepts of literary criticism and review are defined and the development of Czech literary criticism is described. The next chapter traces the life of Michel Houellebecq, in terms of the personal and professional experiences that shape his authorial pose. In the practical part, a quantitative analysis of published mentions of the books under study is made. Those mentions that are reviews or critiques are then qualitatively analyzed. The range of media studied includes the mainstream media, which normally write about literature in their literary columns, as well as specifically targeted magazines. The range of media studied includes a variety of periodicity and media format. The time period is always set from the first mention of each book examined and ends in August 2021.
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Poetical work of Josef Hanzlík in the 1960s and its period critical response
Michálková, Gabriela ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Malý, Radek (referee)
The aim of this bachelor's thesis is the analysis and comparison of critical response to the poetical work of Josef Hanzlík from the time period 1961-1967. These responses were published mostly in culturally or directly literary focused period press. The period and literary context also precedes the analysis. In the first chapter, the author briefly introduces the poet's life, then the literary and historical context of his work (the characteristics of the time period and its literary environment) and lastly the themes and the most frequently used motifs of Hanzlík's poetry. The second chapter deals with the term of "literary criticism", summarizes the evolution of literary criticism in the Czech environment of the 1960s, and the third one presents selected period press used in the thesis. The last chapter which forms a major part of this thesis, is dedicated to the analysis of critical responses. The author first shortly introduces the sources. She continues with the analysis of poetry collections with an emphasis on the opinions of individual literary critics. She then compares their critical attitudes and also observes the changes in their approach to the progression of the poet's work over the years.
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