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“Tis beautiful in the spa towns, since one finds much pleasure there for one´s health to suit one´s tastes.” The Spa Town Topos in Czech Literature in the 19th Century
Fránek, Michal
Spa towns represented a space where the middle and higher classes could take in the relaxing effects of various healing procedures but they were also important locations for making social contacts, having fun and enjoying leisurely activities not the last of which included lovers´ trysts. Our essay attempts to examine how these aspects of spa town life appeared in Czech journalism of the time (B. Němcová, J. Neruda), in literary fiction (A. V. Šmilovský, I. Klicpera, T. Nováková, F. X. Svoboda etc.) and in the opera (L. Janáček: Fate). The work also monitors how Czech and German competition and efforts to create their own, purely Czech spa town of Luhačovice, figures in literary representations.
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Image of Everydayness in Teréza Nováková's Short Stories Úlomky žuly and Karel Václav Rais' Prose Skleník
Šteffelová, Denisa ; Mocná, Dagmar (advisor) ; Brožová, Věra (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the depiction of everyday life in Teréza Nováková's short stories Úlomky žuly and in the prose of K.V. Raise Skleník. Its aim is to determine how the authors of realism work with such details of everyday life and in what way they incorporate them into the text. The first part of the thesis focuses on the theoretical outline of realism with the emphasis on two of the newest concepts. Moreover, Barthes' reality effect is accentuated, based on which the function of details affecting the credibility of the image is being examined in the second part. The practical part deals with the analysis of the already mentioned details, which are divided into five main categories (housework, eating habits, clothing, visits and deviations from everyday life). The comparison of the authors also takes into account the gender specification of both male and female writers, which was studied by Marcin Filipowicz. Based on the results obtained, it can be stated that Nováková's everyday life details primarily fulfil a documentary function (in accordance with her ethnographic activities). Rais's style is therefore more interesting as the everyday life details do not only have a characterizing function but they also depict the previously mentioned reality effect.
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The everyday life of publicly active women in second half of 19th century
Damková, Markéta ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor) ; Pokorná, Magdaléna (referee)
The goal of the master thesis is to introduce a woman living in the second half of nineteenth century in her private sphere of influence. It deals with the everyday life of the female half of population belonging to the bourgeoisie and with the rhythm controlling her life. In particular chapters there are concluded parts of female world limited by their household. The thesis describes ordinary actions which made part of female's life, the most important are housekeeping and raising children. The attention is also focused on female's health and body care and on the methods of mental hygiene, especially ways of relaxing and spending free time. An ordinary life of female member of bourgeoisie in the second half of nineteenth century is reconstructed thanks to the primary sources, particularly the diaries and the private correspondence. The thesis is based on the research of the estates of many publicly active Czech women lay-by in the Literary Archive of the Museum of Czech Literature or published as the edition. Key words 19th century, history of women, everyday life, female question, housekeeping, raising children, free time, clothing
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Role of rags and other community events on life of czech woman in 19th century
Šimková, Eva ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
The socio-historical and literary-historical context is delineated in the first part of the thesis. But the essence of the thesis is analysing of three novels and one book of advices written by four female writers of the second half of 19th centrury. The analysis is focused on construction of model female readers for which the books were written. The main theme is analysis of detail of ball or dance event in their influence on the life of teenage girls, the definition and description of how the marriage market works and its changing relationship with the woman's free choice of profession. Based on readings of other texts of the four female authors we followed the extent of projection of ideological orientations and attitudes of the writers into these their analyzed texts.
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Teréza Nováková's position in the Czech literary canon of the 19th century
NEJEDLÁ, Renáta
This thesis analyses literary-historical evaluations of works by Teréza Novaková included in synthetic works, specialized monographs and also secondary paratexts, such as book epilogues. The aim is to describe the dynamics of forming the position of works by Teréza Novaková in the canon of the nineteenth-century Czech literature, to which the literary scientific production contributes significantly.
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