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Rethinking the Animal: Post-Humanist Tendencies in (Post) Modern Literature
Gridneva, Yana ; Vichnar, David (advisor) ; Procházka, Martin (referee)
This thesis posits post-humanism as a philosophy that engages directly with the problem of anthropocentrism and is concerned primarily with the metaphysics of subjectivity. It studies five literary texts (James Joyce's Ulysses, Virginia Woolf's Flush, Djuna Barnes' Nightwood, Brigid Brophy's Hackenfeller's Ape and J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons) that challenge the humanistic or classical subject through critical engagement with what this subject traditionally saw as its antithesis - the animal. These texts contest various fixed assumptions about animality and disrupt the status-quo of the human. Breaking with the tradition that treats animals exclusively as a metaphor for the human, they attempt to see and understand animality outside the framework of anthropocentric suppositions. This project aims to describe the strategies these texts employ to conceptualize animality as well as the methods they apply to delineate its subversive potential and to disrupt the human- animal binary. Its theoretical framework combines the work of thinkers belonging to the new but thriving field of Animal Studies with the ideas of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. It is this project's great ambition to contribute towards the development of new post- humanist ethics defined by its...
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Narrative Structures in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction
Kovačeva, Elizabet ; Wallace, Clare (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
Thesis Abstract One of the basic principles of modernism was to evaluate existing traditions and cultural norms, to innovate them, and to get rid of them if necessary. The need and urge to innovate proved to be immensely productive in the short story genre. The short story is now perceived as independent of other prose forms precisely thanks to the modernists. Virginia Woolf was one of the most enthusiastic innovators of the form, her work in the genre is nevertheless often overlooked in comparison to her novels, or even in comparison to other short story writers, such as Katherine Mansfield or James Joyce. This thesis deals with selected narrative structures in Virginia Woolf's shorter fiction. It works with the basic assumption that when Woolf's short stories are read, her novels have to be taken into account as well due to numerous thematic and other affinities. However, it is also of importance to evaluate Woolf's short fiction without measuring them against her novels as these are two distinct genres. The thesis introduction presents an overview of the literary and cultural context of the times in which Woolf lived and wrote, with emphasis on her familiarity with the Russian writers, primarily Chekhov, and the first Post-Impressionist painters. The thesis then carries out four separate analyses of four...
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Comparative analysis: Virginia Woolf Mrs.Dalloway and Michael Cunningham Hours
Procházková, Lucie ; Kubíček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Mocná, Dagmar (referee)
Adeline Virginia Woolf ( 25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernist of the first half of the twentieth century. In 1925 she wrote her best-known novel. This novel details one day in June of 1923 in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, who organizes a party for his husband and her friends. The second plane is the story of a war hero's Septum Smith, who is haunted by the consequences of the horrific events in the form of insanity, even after five years from the end of the conflict. Although these two characters never meet, their lives are linked to mental basis. Thanks to Septum's suicide occurs reflection of Clarissa Dalloway and "fusion" of the two characters. Woolf does not put emphasis on the story, but to capture a fleeting moment of time, which leads to death. Literary constructs in the form of the characters are carriers of many existential themes such as death, conventions, elusiveness time. Woolf offers readers the technique of stream of consciousness and the technique of monitoring characters and events from multiple perspectives. The result is a characteristic of the characters through the other characters and the internal monologues of the characters themselves. The novels of Virginia Woolf assume a perceptive reader, educated, having an overview of...
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The concept of fleetingness in V. Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway
ZVONÍČKOVÁ, Andrea
This bachelor thesis focuses on the concept of fleetingness in Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway. The aim of this work is to offer a complete overview of these moments in the story, interpret them and show which techniques the author employs to achieve the sensation of fleetingness; all of this with the help of Henri Bergson's theories of time. Based on this philosopher's thoughts the work will analyse the concept of objective and subjective time, which appears in Mrs. Dalloway. As time is one of the main topics of this thesis, there will also be an overview of the most significant philosophical theories dealing with the issue.
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Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" in Czech translations
KUBÁŇOVÁ, Alena
The aim of this bachelor's work is to compare the two czech translations of an english book by Virginia Woolf called "To the lighthouse". It examines closely each of the following levels: lexical, morphological, syntactical and semantic level of language. The work observes mostly the differences in dissimilarity and similarity of the translations in relation to the original english text, as well as the archaicity and expresiveness of expressions when comparing the two translations in relation to each other only.
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Themes and Motifs in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
Limrová, Martina ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Topolovská, Tereza (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to elaborate on the thematic and motivic layers of the novel To The Lighthouse written by Virginia Woolf in 1927. The purpose of this work is to find the themes and motifs most commonly used by Woolf. I am focusing in particular on a detailed analysis of the themes and motifs typical of Woolf's writing style. Among other things, the aim of the work is to find a possible link with the author's life, which could have had undisputed influence on the choice of themes and motifs, as well as the other intentions of the author to use the given motifs. KEYWORDS Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Modernism, themes, motifs
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"All this little affair with 'being' is over:" Metaphysical Crisis in Virginia Woolf's The Waves
Opravil, Vít ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Vichnar, David (referee)
Thesis Abstract The present thesis sets out to follow three different problems in the metaphysics of Virginia Woolf's late novel The Waves and contrast them with the theories of three thinkers - Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and Jacques Derrida. First chapter discusses Woolf's approach to subjectivity. It is shown that Deleuze's and Guattari's method establishing subjectivity as a by- product of a machinic assemblage is particularly fruitful in reading the characters in the first four chapters where their bodies and their "subjectivities" form in diverse ways. D&G comment on the waves of the lyrical passages as an abstract machine of which the character-assemblages are actualizations. They do not, however, comment on the territorialising function of sunlight which seems to be equally important and therefore needs to be analysed. This function corresponds with the ever growing oedipalisation of the characters, which finds its summit in the fifth chapter of the novel and transforms a deterritorialised rhizome into a reterritorialized (or oedipalised) signifying system. The second chapter discusses how the functioning of the territorial machine of the sun reduces the rhizome into a centralised system whose centre can be understood through the prism of Derrida's theory of structure as a play of...
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Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf
Bláhová, Šárka ; Ševčík, Miloš (advisor) ; Kaplický, Martin (referee)
This thesis is dealing with characteristics of Virginia Woolf's aesthetic views which progresses according to the then aesthetic teories. It introduces significant differences between the Victorian and the following Modern period which influenced all areas of human activities. The thesis discusses step by step development of human thinking and its reflexions into production and experience of art. Besides that, the thesis analyses art activities of Bloomsbury group, its philosophy and aesthetics. It includes main aesthetic thoughts of Mr. Roger Frye and Mr. Clive Bell who were part of the group and created its aesthetic views. Finaly we will focus on Virginia Woolf and her aesthetic opinions which were influenced by Mr. Roger Frye's aesthetic views. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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The Influence of Virginia Woolf on Contemporary British Fiction in selected works by Pat Barker, Toby Litt and Ian McEwan
Kocianová, Tereza ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to focus on the phenomenon of Virginia Woolf's influence on contemporary fiction. It attempts to demonstrate the frequent stylistic, thematic and personal imprint of Virginia Woolf in recently published works of British authors. Particular examples are drawn from Pat Barker's novels Life Class (2007) and Toby's Room (2012), Toby Litt's Finding Myself (2003) and Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005). The thesis concentrates on contextualising the allusions found in the four selected novels with the factual information from Woolf's life and her social, cultural and professional milieu. The literary modernist strategies, narrative techniques and characteristic themes employed in the works by Woolf are compared with those used in the selected novels. Key words: Virginia Woolf, Modernism, Bloomsbury Group, Allusion, Intertextuality, Themes, Narrative strategies
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