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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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Alienation and Changes in Intimacy in Contemporary Czech Literature and its Critical Response
Motyčková, Kateřina ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Malý, Radek (referee)
This thesis focuses on four prose works of contemporary Czech literature. These are the novel Možnosti milostného románu (Ways of Writing about Love) and the short story collection Hra pro čtyři ruce (The Game for Four Hands) by the writer Jan Němec, the novel Smrtholka (Deathmaiden) by the writer Lucie Faulerová and the novella Přípravy na všechno (Preparations for Everything) by the poet publishing under the pseudonym Elsa Aids. The thesis focuses in particular on how the themes of alienation and the transformation of intimacy are manifested in the selected works. The thesis first defines these concepts theoretically. Then focuses on contemporary Czech literature and the ways in which it relates to the present and its problems. It will then also theoretically define the concepts of literary criticism and interpretation. In the practical part, the interpretation of individual literary works will be carried out. It will also include an analysis of critical responses that have appeared in the Czech media, most of which are culturally or literary oriented. The aim of the thesis will be to map how the selected works reflect feelings of alienation and modern transformations of intimacy and how these themes are addressed by literary critics and reviewers. The thesis also includes the interview with the...
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Bestseller phenomenon in the contemporary literature
Slavíčková, Tereza ; Mocná, Dagmar (advisor) ; Neumann, Lukáš (referee)
This master's thesis analyses two novels written by the Czech author Alena Mornštajnová (Hana, Slepá mapa). The aim of the thesis is to investigate the differences and similarities between the novels, while making a thorough analysis. The thesis answers the question whether there are some specific attributes that can be found within every bestseller, and if so, which are these attributes.
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Characters of Space in the Trilogy Trýznivé město by Daniela Hodrová
Macháčková, Klára ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Wiendl, Jan (referee)
This bachelor thesis aims to interpret the trilogy Trýznivé město (subsuming parts called Podobojí, Kukly and Théta) by the Czech novelist and literary scholar Daniela Hodrová. A complex structure of the novel is in the analysis "opened" through the categories of space and characters; an axis of the thesis is the idea that in the poetics of D. Hodrová, some places can acquire certain features of living creatures (such as memory, free will, temper etc.) and vice versa, that some characters can coalesce with the space they inhabit. In spite of a firm mutual connection between the two categories, they will be discussed separately, in the following order: after having defined the background (using mainly theoretical works of D. Hodrová as secondary sources), firstly, we will focus on the localization of particular topoi (i.e. "literary loaded" places, e.g. the mountain, the pass, the abyss etc.) and on the description of their connotations in terms of the general sense of the trilogy; the attention will be also given to the non-topographical places (i.e. objects or parts of the body). Then, we will consider the issue of characters, primarily their ambivalent status between personalities, though fictional, and mere literary constructs performing certain functions, and also their transformations...
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Body as Key Topic in the Prose of Marek Sindelka
Bydžovská, Marie ; Píšová, Ina (advisor) ; Brožová, Věra (referee)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the literary work of the Czech contemporary author Marek Šindelka, specifically with his key prose works Chyba, Zůstaňte s námi, Mapa Anny and Únava materiálu. The analysis of these titles, based mainly on the literary-theoretical approaches of Daniela Hodrová, Blanka Činátlová and linguists George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, focuses on the way in which their central theme of body and physicality manifests itself at various levels of literary work. The aim of the bachelor's thesis is to verify with the appropriate literary tools whether the body and physicality are only a key topic connecting most of Šindelka's texts or whether it enters the deeper levels of the text, eg. as its compositional principle or as - the only valid - way of seeing the world. KEYWORDS Marek Šindelka, contemporary Czech literature, prose, body and physicality, theme, composition, metaphor
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Reception of Magnesia Litera in media between 2016 and 2019 and of various winning books
Karešová, Pavla ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Malý, Radek (referee)
This bachelor theses addresses analysis of literary critical response of four titles which were awarded in one of the categories of the competition Magnesia Litera between 2016 and 2019. The thesis aims to present the profile of the competition Magnesia Litera and subsequently to define the term literary criticism, to describe its development and principles. Furthermore, it addresses four specific winning titles which include two awarded for Prose: Do tmy (2015) by Anna Bolavá and Teorie podivnosti (2018) by Pavla Horáková, one awarded for Journalism: Brnox. Průvodce brněnským Bronxem. Akce Kateřiny Šedé (2016) by Kateřina Šedá and one for Children's and Youth Literature: Transport za věčnost (2017) by František Tichý. Each book is then subject of my own interpretation. The thesis then analyses critical reflection of each book within Czech media environment before and after being awarded in Magnesia Litera competition, regards the quantity of response and compares its content; in both cases it also points out whether the literary critical evaluation had been influenced by the award itself.
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