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The thesis provides an overview of the life and work of Pavel/Paul Eisner (1889-1958), a Czech translator of Jewish-German origin, focusing on his translation activities and "marginal" cultural identity, which served as the basis of his triple ghetto theory and "Prague interpretation" of the works of Franz Kafka. Eisner's translations of the novels The Castle and The Trial are examined using Gideon Toury's descriptive model of translation analysis, with the aim to determine their most prominent features and asses them in terms of their acceptability/adequacy in the target literature. The selected excerpts are subsequently compared with the source text to reconstruct the translator's method and find out in what way it was influenced by Eisner's theories on Kafka, stemming from his own life experience of a Prague German Jew. Key words: Pavel Eisner, Paul Eisner, Franz Kafka, triple ghetto, The Castle, The Trial, translation analysis, Gideon Toury

The thesis focuses on modern translations of the classic American novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald within the Czech cultural setting. Initially, in accordance with Gideon Toury's (2012) descriptive model, two Czech translations will be compared in light of their functionality within the target literary canon, their dominating stylistic features will be determined and they will be assessed in terms of their acceptability or adequacy. Subsequently selected excerpts will be compared with the source text to reveal how each of the translations treats Fitzgerald's text, and in relation to these findings their shifts between acceptability and adequacy will be specified. The central goal of the thesis is to evaluate the transfer of Fitzgerald's very specific writing style, with special focus on its poetic character, lyricism and imagery. Therefore individual translation strategies will be identified and the invariant core of both of the translations will be determined. For an even more detailed explanation of the translation strategies the thesis employs the preceding translation by Lubomír Dorůžka (1960) which helps clarify the relationship between the studied translations. In conclusion all of the findings are summarized and characteristics of each of the Czech versions of Fitzgerald's The...

This thesis concerns the violation of the right to a fair trial by the appointment of ineffective public defenders. The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees the right to appointed counsel if a defendant cannot afford it. The first section of the thesis focuses on how the history of the case law which constitutionally mandates effective appointed counsel for all United States citizens who cannot afford otherwise. However, this right is not being fulfilled for millions of American citizens. The judicial system is structured so that many indigent accused criminals are convinced by their overworked and underpaid public defenders to plead guilty. This "meet and plead" style of representation expedites the trial process at the expense of indigent defendants. The second section covers the epidemic of fair trial rights violations in the United States. In order to fix this problem there are solutions that the Supreme Court, trial courts, and the legislature can address. The third and final section concludes the thesis with a discussion of possible remedies for the deficiencies of the American public defender conglomerate.

Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-92).

Thesis (M.A.)--Wheaton College, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-92).

This thesis presents a descriptive study of the Czech translations and reception of Horrible Histories, a popular science book series written by British author Terry Deary. The methodological framework is based on Gideon Toury's 1995 model, which is reflected in the structure of the thesis. First, the Czech translations are contextualised, whereby the preliminary norms derived from an interview with the initiator and commissioner of the translations are described. With regard to the original works by the series translator Robert Novotný, a hypothesis suggesting an initial tendency towards acceptability is formulated. What follows is a stylistic analysis of two Czech translations, based on which distinctive stylistic features of the translated series are determined and ways in which the texts deviate from acceptability are presented. Next, the thesis focuses on the Czech metatexts Děsné české dějiny ('Horrible Czech Histories'). After the circumstances under which the series originated are explained, a stylistic analysis of two metatexts is carried out, followed by a comparison with the translated texts. Subsequently, the thesis discusses the Czech reception of Horrible Histories in general, whereby reception trends are identified using an analysis of readers' comments in online databases. The...

The goal of this thesis "The king Abimelek: interpretation of Judges 9" is to analyse biblical text Judges 9. Reader is first introduced to the topic of the Book of Judges, to which the analysed text belongs. In first chapter the state of present research is briefly summarized. Synchronic method, used in the analysis, are being described later in the thesis. Main part of the thesis deals with the interpretation of Judges 9. Step by step a reader is introduced to a form, content and interpretation of particular verses. All graduates to the conclusion of the thesis, which summarizes, what was found out using the analysis. At the end of the conclusion is a recommandation, what a nowadays reader of Bible can gain from the studied text. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The diploma thesis Jan Zábrana, translator and poet - translating poetry while inspired by it? examines the relationship between the original works of Jan Zábrana and his translations, taking into account the similar thematic and formal inclinations of all the authors and the sociocultural context, preventing Jan Zábrana from publishing his own poetry. Based on the analysis of three variants of Zábrana's poem collections Utkvělé černé ikony, Stránky z deníku and Samosoud and his translations of poems by Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso and Kenneth Patchen, the thesis aims at finding the tendencies and models present both in Zábrana's original poems and his translations.

The United States is among one of the only democratic industrialized nations in the world that does not provide guaranteed access to civil representation in cases involving basic human need. This leaves indigent litigants who are at risk of losing their homes or their children left to seek counsel through insufficient pro-bono programs or limited scope legal self-help centers. This thesis provides a history of the struggle for the right to civil counsel, known as Civil Gideon, and explores a variety of proposed solutions to bridge the justice gap for indigent litigants. Despite considerable support for Civil Gideon among scholars and the legal community, the public is unaware of the justice gap- about 80% of Americans assume the right to civil counsel already exists. This thesis conducted two studies to understand possible reasons for this gap between public knowledge and reality and to identify the possibility of manipulating public knowledge through exposure to injustices. The findings from these studies are used to inform a network approach to shape public support for Civil Gideon so that the US court system can truly represent opportunity and equality for all citizens.