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Meanings of Literary Childhood Spaces: The Garden in Twentieth-Century Literature
Izdná, Petra ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
Meanings of Literary Childhood Spaces: The Garden in Twentieth-Century Literature focuses on the analysis of selected twentieth-century childhood novels for adults with regard to the relationship between child character and fictional space, and reflects generally accepted cultural concept of paradisal childhood and its images in literature. In theory, the dissertation is inspired by the treatises on spatiality of human existence by phenomenologists, such as Martin Heidegger, Jan Patočka, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and O. F. Bollnow. It also elaborates insights of the Garden archetype in literary history. The critical reading of selected works examines phenomenological issues, such as child specific perception of space, nature as an extension of the human consciousness, sacred space, home, intimacy of space and death of space. Furthermore, it describes features the literary garden acquires by the union with the child in twentieth-century literature (childhood paradisal gardens, character of divine chid, character of child hermaphrodite, dynamism between fictional house and garden, garden as a miniature of the universe and children games as the imitation of Creation).
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Image of Most Region's in Czech Narrative Fiction of the 20th. and 21. century
Krejčová, Kateřina ; Hnilica, Jiří (advisor) ; Pokorný, Jiří (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the research of the image left by the city of Most, or more precisely the whole Most region in Czech prose from 1945 to the present, and does so by means of an interpretative analysis of nine selected works. In the thesis, fiction is approached as a primary source and thus, from the point of view of literary theory, the thesis ranks among context-oriented theories. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and an analytical part; the theoretical part summarizes the history of the area and the city of Most (old and new), with the emphasis put on major events that could be considered turning points of the 20th and 21st century for the city and the region. It also describes the literature both of the Most region and about the Most region. The analytical part contains an interpretative analysis of nine works - by the authors Hořejš, Jedlička, Páral, Volák, Cach, Šerberová, Brycz, Čechura and Bendová - taking place in the city of Most and its surrounding. The analyses themselves are introduced by an explanation of the selection of these works, which was made in such a way that it was both representative and also outlined how the city and its surroundings were depicted in literature. The analyses are followed by a chapter that reveals what motifs-realities occurred across...
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Expulsion of Sudetes Germans in 20th century literary fiction
Vrbatová, Lenka ; Píšová, Ina (advisor) ; Kubíček, Tomáš (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with literary depiction of expulsion of Sudetes Germans in the Czech fiction of the second half of the 20th century. Based on analysis of five novels it describes the influence of the period political ideology shaping the literary depiction of the Germans, the boarder areas of Czechoslovakia, the act of explusion itself, as well as Czech national identity across more than six decades.
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Meanings of Literary Childhood Spaces: The Garden in Twentieth-Century Literature
Izdná, Petra ; Hrbata, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Heczková, Libuše (referee) ; Hrdlička, Josef (referee)
Meanings of Literary Childhood Spaces: The Garden in Twentieth-Century Literature focuses on the analysis of selected twentieth-century childhood novels for adults with regard to the relationship between child character and fictional space, and reflects generally accepted cultural concept of paradisal childhood and its images in literature. In theory, the dissertation is inspired by the treatises on spatiality of human existence by phenomenologists, such as Martin Heidegger, Jan Patočka, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and O. F. Bollnow. It also elaborates insights of the Garden archetype in literary history. The critical reading of selected works examines phenomenological issues, such as child specific perception of space, nature as an extension of the human consciousness, sacred space, home, intimacy of space and death of space. Furthermore, it describes features the literary garden acquires by the union with the child in twentieth-century literature (childhood paradisal gardens, character of divine chid, character of child hermaphrodite, dynamism between fictional house and garden, garden as a miniature of the universe and children games as the imitation of Creation).
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A Comparison of Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen
Synková, Blanka ; Wallace, Clare (advisor) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
This thesis compares short stories by the New Zealand-born author Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) and the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), namely Mansfield's short story collection Bliss and Other Stories (1920) and Bowen's The Demon Lover and Other Stories (1945). It aims to offer a relatively complex view: it discusses the form as well as the content of the short stories, illustrating the arguments with concrete examples from the short stories, famous ones as well as less known; it suggests various influences that may reflect in the short stories, it offers opinions of notable critics on the individual authors and it also occasionally mentions the authors' own opinions on their work and literature in general. There are three chapters in the body of the thesis. One of them provides contextual information about the possible influences that may have shaped the authors' writing as well as about some critical approaches to their work. The other two chapters analyse the form and content of the stories, respectively. The discussion of formal aspects of Mansfield's and Bowen's short stories focuses on various features of the short stories that may be described as impressionist or lyrical, and on technical devices that may be compared to film. The analysis of content is concerned especially...
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Representation of the world by children´s eyes
TALÍŘOVÁ, Elmira
This bachelor thesis focuses on examination of the representation of the world through child's point of view and of its narrative techniques. It deals mainly, but not exclusively, with the work of Czech authors who wrote in the first half of the 20th century. The thesis aims concretely Egon Hostovsky's novel Černá tlupa, Olga Barényi's Janka, and at last but not least, Karel Poláček's novel Bylo nás pět. This bachelor thesis is not orientated only on theoretical part based on narrative techniques but it also deals with historical and cultural context of the time when particular literary work was created.
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