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A Night in the Mill
Topínková, Anita ; Havlíček, Jiří (referee) ; Zet, Martin (advisor)
Be moving, seek, hunt for sth, can´t find it so far, that is a promise of paradise, or a paradise itself. Mobility as a protest, pursuit of adventure, searching for escape, authenticity or identity.
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Autobiographical Reflections in Jane Austen's Fictional World
Vošmíková, Marcela ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Grmelová, Anna (referee)
This thesis deals with autobiographical reflections in selected novels of Jane Austen. The theoretical part looks into the social, historical, and cultural background in Jane Austen's lifetime. It also gives a general outline of literary genres in the late 18th and early 19th century. The practical part is focused on the analysis of various aspects in six Austen's books within the context of the available information about the writer's life. These novels are: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. This part deals with the question concerning an extent to which Austen's writing, the fictional worlds of her novels, can be attributed to the influence of her personal life and experience.
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Romantic idealism in George Sand's ''country'' novels
SOCHORKOVÁ, Kristýna
This bachelor thesis is concerned with the work of George Sand, an important French writer of the 19th century. The aim of the thesis is to fathom the writer's rural novels and to determinate the role of idealized elements in these novels. The thesis contains a theoretical and an analytical section. The theoretical section briefly introduces the historical and literary context of the Romantic movement in France and, subsequently, mentions George Sand's biography and literary output. The analytical section consists of analysis of Sand's rural novels (The Devil's Pool, The Country Waif, Little Fadette and Les Maîtres Sonneurs) with emphasis on identifying idealized elements. The analysis focuses on characteristics of main characters and the rural setting where George Sand strove to portray an image of an ideal human being. A summary of all four analyses follows and pursues interconnected themes in her rural novels.
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Christian Kitsch
ŠOJSLOVÁ, Lucie
This diploma thesis deals with kitsch as a manipulative tool parasitizing in the Christian environment, at the heart of which are especially emotionally colored and often sentimental themes that directly attack the feelings of the viewer. The main content is also the definition of similarities and differences between sacred and spiritual art, holy pictures and kitsch. The aim of the thesis is to bring the concept of "Christian kitsch", to point out its power and to think about the question of whether Christianity would even be able to exist without kitsch.
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The Representation of the Svojanov castle in the 19th and 20th Century Czech Literature
URBÁNKOVÁ, Soňa
The small town of Svojanov, dominated by a medieval castle, has become an inspiration for many authors, prose writers, and poets. The first references to Svojanov can be found at the time of the National Revival, and this literary tradition continues to the present time. The aim of this work is to document all available texts in which the literary image of the place was developed during the 19th and 20th centuries. In particular, the genres in which the given image was applied and how it changed in the context of contemporary literary discourses (emphasis will be placed on the dominant discourses of 19th-century romanticism, parnasism, realism). The available electronic resources (Caslin catalog, Retrobi database, ) will be used for the research and the resulting text will be provided to the Svojanov castle administration.
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Italy through the eyes of Romantic writer Alexandre Dumas
KOREŇOVÁ, Noemi
The aim of the presented bachelor thesis is to introduce Italy through the perspective of Alexandre Dumas the Elder, a Romantic writer, which he provides in a travel book dedicated to Tuscany - Une année a Florence. Based on an analysis of the set work, it deals with how the author´s experiences of the journey mediate historical, political and cultural events from contemporary Italy and to give an idea of his personal relation to them.
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The chateau Český Rudolec. Building history and stylistic context.
SMRŽOVÁ, Eva
The Bachelor Thesis The chateau Český Rudolec - building history and arts-historical context summarizes the basic information related to the chateau itself, but also to its close surroundings, with a focus on the last reconstruction into neogothic form and on the prospective owner Michael Angelo Picchioni. The chateau is then set in the context of similar 19th-century historicist buildings.
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Wandering off after Libuše, or the Identities of Josef Jiří Kolár
Futtera, Ladislav
This study analyses three works by the writer and playwright Josef Jiři Kolar: the German-language short story Libussa am Missisippi (Libuše in Mississippi, 1842), its Czech version Libuše v Americe (Libuše in America, 1854) and the drama Věštba Libušina (Libuše’s Prophecy, 1868). These are used as an example to demonstrate Kolar’s artistic development and changes in the identity of a writer working in the Czech lands around the mid-19th century. During the period under review, Kolar, who in 1842 had been an actor in German and Czech ensembles at the Estates Theatre, publishing in both languages, came to be an acclaimed Czech-language playwright. This career is faithfully reflected in these three texts. In the case of Libuše in Mississippi, this is an original attempt to critically come to terms from the position of the Young Bohemia (Junges Bohmen) artistic group with the heritage of romantic poetics, romantic stereotypes about the Czech lands and ultimately with the romantic nationalism of the Czech national movement. Although Kolar made a number of alterations when rendering the novel into Czech, his text was not compatible with the mythological-historical reading of the Libuše legend, dominant in Czech-language culture. It was not until Libuše’s Prophecy, staged to mark the laying of the foundation stones for the National Theatre, that he did conform. Kolar negated both of his previous Libuše texts with her message, which appealed to the historicism that pervaded Czech society. However, this negation also meant a definitive artistic identification with the Czech national programme and the acceptance of a Czech national identity. With regard to his creative trajectory, Kolar may thus be perceived as a typical representative of the generation of artists who began their career in the early 1840s, critically addressing Romanticism and Romantic nationalism, but after the 1848 revolution its members integrated, both on the Czech and the German side, into the nationalized bourgeois society of the Czech lands.
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Pilgrimage, countryside and pilgrim
Černá, Marie ; Daniel, Ladislav (advisor) ; Fremlová, Vendula (referee)
The subject of the diploma thesis is the relationship between the artist and the landscape. The thesis focuses mainly on the tradition of pilgrimage and outlines the aspects of the landscape that the artist uses as a pilgrim in his work. The pilgrimage phenomenon is shown here through the works of Czech as well as foreign authors, from the illustrations from the travels to the performances in the landscape. In the didactic part, the tasks focused on the activities in the landscape are outlined, which reflect the perception of the landscape of the secondary school pupils. In the practical part there is a project dealing with the reflection of my travels around the landscape. Keywords Landscape, pilgrim, performance, action art, romanticism
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