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The influence of editorial processing on understanding the text of Babička (The Grandmother) by elementary school pupils
Sotlová, Jana ; Adam, Robert (advisor) ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (referee)
(in English) Diploma thesis The Influence of editorial processing on understanding the text of Babička (The Grandmother) by elementary school pupils focuses on selected editions of Božena Němcová's Babička published after 1989, which are intended for schools and children readers. The primary aim of the thesis is to determine whether the editing arrangements of the Grandmother have influence on its understanding by the pupils of the second level elementary school. The secondary aim of the thesis is to find out whether pupils in the current teaching of the Czech language are familiar with the text of Babička and in what form is the text made accessible to them. Theoretical part of the thesis characterizes the relationship of contemporary Czech readers to Božena Němcová and Babička on the basis of research of reading preferences and attitudes of the general public to non-required reading, which is followed by the description of the practice of compulsory and recommended reading at elementary schools and the publishing practice of non-required reading. The theoretical part concludes with a commented overview of the children editions of Božena Němcová's Babička focusing on two contemporary editions of Babička intended for children - one by Fragment Publishing House from 2011 and another one by Práh...
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Gender analysis of the main female characters in Bozena Nemcova's The Grandmother
Babická, Barbora ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Kalnická, Zdeňka (referee)
The subject of this diploma thesis is gender analysis of the main female characters in Bozena Nemcova's The Grandmother. The Grandmother, as a literary work that occupies an important place in Czech literary canon, was not examined from a gender perspective in Czech literature until this time. In this thesis I focused on the main female characters who play very important role and to whom is given wide space in the story. During analyzing the literary characters I worked with the selected feminist theories that I introduce in detail in theoretical and methodological part. This part is also dedicated to theoretical and methodological resources that I use in this thesis, particularly to women's reading and archetypal theories. This thesis is being examined from receptionist reader's view. I focus here primarily on presence of gender stereotypes, reproduction of values and norms of patriarchal system, and I also focus on presence of feminine archetypes that can be read from description of female characters. The object of this diploma thesis is evaluate the extent to which the book reproduce and further strengthen gender stereotypes, to what extent the main female characters internalize with gender structure of society or whether they act subversively and undermine the system. Keywords: The Grandmother,...
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No rose blooms all year: Viktorka`s image in The Grandmother by Božena Němcova
Fojtíková, Jiřina ; Heczková, Libuše (advisor) ; Málek, Petr (referee)
This thesis gives an interpretation of the image of Viktorka, a female character in Bozena Nemcova's Babicka ('The Grandmother'), as an autonomous thematic antagonism able to communicate with the reader, by means of text, with a similar power to that of the traditionally prioritised image of the grandmother. The reason why the topic of Viktorka was neglected lay in the fact that for a long time the professional acceptance of this work tended much more towards the idyllic, or idyll-making, approach. This, however, is only one of the interpretational approaches or, more exactly, only one side. The other side, relatively overlooked until recently, is the space the author gave to the character of Viktorka. The narrative and semantic structure of this work shows the topical duality of human love which actually rather separates the text of Babicka, and emphasises the antagonisms of these two female characters rather than softening their contours. This thematic emphasis, in the opinion of the author of this thesis, is supported primarily by the contextual relationship of space and time which for the reader transpose into the present babicka's "happiness" as well as Viktorka's "misfortune". The interpretation presented in this thesis consists of four parts. The first and second relate to the book by Bozena Nemcova,...
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