The thesis The Phenomenon of Music in Painting on the Example of Image by Roelandt Savery "Orpheus Charming the Animals in the Landscape" treats the work of an early 17th century Dutch painter in the context of the phenomenon of music. The goal of this thesis is to demonstrate both how the phenomenon of music can be represented in painting, using the example of the above mentioned picture, and where its importance resides. The initial section provides the basic characteristics of the painting to be analysed, briefly introducing the painter, bringing forward a pre-iconographic description as well as discussing the problematics of its dating. The next section of the thesis focuses on an iconographic description of particular features of the examined painting, subsequently leading to an iconological analysis emphasising the meaning of the painting with regards to music. The final section deals with the painting and its origin in the historical context.

Kärlek har beskrivits som en estetisk och etisk grund i Sara Lidmans författarskap. Men vad står denna kärlek för och vad står den i relation till? Utifrån Lidmans roman Bära mistel (1960) undersöker uppsatsen bland annat denna fråga. Romanens formspråk präglas av söndersprängning och polyfoni, kategorier kopplade till den modern(istisk)a litteraturen. Därför blir analysen fördelad på tre perspektiv, vars minsta gemensamma nämnare är begär och dess funktion vid (jag)skapandet. Huvudpersonen Björn Ceders homosexualitet bryter mot den heterosexuella matrisen och genom Judith Butler blir det möjligt att påstå att han hotar att luckra upp en gräns mellan ett begär som är kopplat till kärlek och ett begär som hänger samman med identifikation. Den andra huvudpersonen Linda Ståhl går på sin vandring bakom Björn och därigenom kan Bära mistel kopplas till myten om Orfeus och Eurydike. I relation till Roland Barthes och Maurice Blanchots användning av myten visar uppsatsen att Bära mistel avviker från mytens traditionella förlopp. Detta sker genom att hon besjunger honom samt genom att han aldrig vänder sig om och ser på henne. Linda och Björn kläs i romanen av. Genom Giorgio Agambens teologiskt grundade teori om (skamfull) nakenhet fördjupas frågan om begärets roll i Bära mistel och det både i relation till skapandet och i relation till reproduktionen av ett patriarkalt (klass)samhälle.

The aim of this study is to compare selected episodes of Ovid's Metamorphoses with three works of modern literature containing the theme of metamorphosis, and to follow their intertextual relations, dependency and innovation of Ovidian themes. On the basis of a comparison of the ancient and the modern text it is examined which motives remain constant during centuries and which, on the contrary, are evolving and shifting their meanings. Through the perspective of the Metamorphoses an attempt is made to interpret the works from a less usual angle. The most significant Ovidian characters that are examined in this study are Teiresias, Daphne, Hyacinth, Orpheus, Ceres, Icarus, Callisto and Io.

Mgr. Magdalena Kučerová Dissertation work: Myth of Narcissus in French literature at the turn of the 20th century ABSTRACT: This dissertation thesis based on knowledge of French myth criticism deals with the issue of myths in literature, which is a specific manifestation of human symbolic imagination. In its most general level the work studies the definition of a myth and its social function as well as the matter of opposite notions regarding to the mythos and logos, which have gradually more and more differentiated along with the development of European thinking. The myth of Narcissus has probably been one of the oldest myths in European culture. In its most renowned and most comprehensive form, the myth first appeared in the third book of Metamorphoses by Ovid, which has served as an inspiration for remakes by many later authors. The story of a young man who fell in love with his own reflection on the surface of the water contains a great variety of semantically strong structures (mainly the motifs of a mirror, narcissistic love, passively superior character of a hero, or the final metamorphoses into a flower), which are analysed in this study. The author of this study outlines the interpretational evolution of the myth of Narcissus in French literary history...