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Motiv smrti ve vybraných románech Michaela Cunninghama
KOUKLÍKOVÁ, Tereza
The bachelor thesis focuses on expression of the death motif in selected works of the American writer, Michael Cunningham (Specimen Days, The Snow Queen, Flesh and Blood, A Home at the End of the World), it tries to track this motif not only in narratives as such, but also in acting of individual characters. In the above-mentioned novels it explores their approaches to death itself, answers and reactions to it. It maps how the (non)existence of this motif is experienced and dealt with in different points of view, by what means it is used in a specific story line and which of the various shapes it embraces, for example in a figurative conception or in contrast to the opposite, but not separable entity: life.
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Written Voice: Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855) and Miller's Tropic of Cancer
Skovajsa, Ondřej ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee) ; Pokorný, Martin (referee)
The PhD. dissertation Written Voice examines how Walt Whitman and Henry Miller through books, confined textual products of modernity, strive to awaken the reader to a more perceptive and courageous life, provided that the reader is willing to suspend hermeneutics of suspicion and approach Leaves of Grass and Tropic of Cancer with hermeneutics of hunger. This is examined from linguistic, anthropological and theological vantage point of oral theory (M. Jousse, M. Parry, A. Lord, W. Ong, E. Havelock, J. Assmann, D. Abram, C. Geertz, T. Pettitt, J. Nohrnberg, D. Sölle, etc.). This work thus compares Leaves (1855) and Tropic of Cancer examining their paratextual, stylistic features, their genesis, the phenomenology of their I's, their ethos and story across the compositions. By "voluntary" usage of means of oral mnemonics such as parallelism/bilateralism (Jousse) - along with present tense, imitatio Christi and pedagogical usage of obscenity - both authors in their compositions attack the textual modern discourse, the posteriority, nostalgia and confinement of literature, restore the body, and aim for futurality of biblical kinetics. It is the reader's task, then, to hermeneutically resurrect the dead printed words of the compositions into their own "flesh" and action. The third part of the thesis...
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