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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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From Linguistic Aberration to the Subversion of Power: Literary Code-switching and Code-mixing as Tools for Upsetting the Language of Power and Expressing Expatriation
Zelenková, Alena ; Jirsa, Tomáš (advisor) ; Pokorný, Martin (referee)
This thesis explores literary code-switching, i.e. multilingual aspects within a single speech, as a key polyphonic structural element in the selected works. First, it analyzes Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera (1987) as a work, where the author seeks to establish a literary tradition that would reflect the life in borderlands and the given community through a new language. Secondly, the language of photography and multilingual speech patterns in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants (1992) are considered as vital elements of the authenticity play. The following chapter deals with Franz Kafka's short stories, where gestures form an essential part of, if not the whole stories, and determine the fragmentary nature of such writing. Finally, the importance of language of power, the discourse of social realism altogether with their emergence into private and intimate discussions through repetitions and variations is commented upon in Václav Havel's play The Garden Party (1963).
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