This M. F. A. thesis exhibition consists of painting, sculpture, and video completed over the last five months. In support of the exhibition, an artist's statement outlines my exploration of the interaction between artist and audience, stylization and mass production of image.

This study investigated the Uncanny Valley and whether using stylization and design may mitigate the negative effects of it. A survey was carried out where respondents had to rate a series of images, which where edited to be stylized in progressively higher degrees, in appeal and realism. All levels of stylization saw small gradual decreases in realism, whilst values of appeal remained static until the three last images where it diminished. Possibly there may be a way of designing characters to have a limited degree of realism whilst not evoking the eeriness associated with the Uncanny Valley.

This M. F. A. thesis exhibition consists of painting, sculpture, and video completed over the last five months. In support of the exhibition, an artist's statement outlines my exploration of the interaction between artist and audience, stylization and mass production of image.

This thesis {\clqq}The last paladin`` of czech decadence Jarmil Krecar from Ruzokvet. Erotic, stylization and inspiration in his life and creation tries to present the personality of Jarmil Krecar and tries to place him in to the cultural {--} historical context of Czech history at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Than reflects the erotic themes in his literary works and his life attitude. And also concentrates how his life was pervaded by anachronism decadent stylizations, esthete and dandyism. The thesis is devided into five chapters. The first part of the introduction essay should outline the complex atmosphere of the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century and should deal circumstances, rise and progress of the important periodical organ of Czech decadent artists, Moderni revue. The second part of the introduction essay tries to describe the phenomenon of decadent stylizations and place it in to the larger Europe connections. The subject of the third part of the first chapter is the reflection of erotic and sex in Czech culture at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The second chapter describes Jarmil´s life, emphasizes to the condition which Jarmil came from and the condition he was later living in. The third chapter analysis in literary way Krecar´s published and unpublished literary works with consideration to the substitution of erotic and pornography motives. The fourth chapter tries hard on the basis of the relation to Jarmil´s Muses and mistresses to understand his personality of a radical decadent artist. The fifth chapter want to present by using concrete example the selfpresentation of the decadent personage in his imaginary and his real world.

Au croisement de la philosophie et des études théâtrales, cette thèse présente un double objectif. Montrer en quoi une réflexion sur le théâtre permet de prolonger et de renouveler des problématiques d’esthétique générale portant sur le statut ontologique de l’art, d’un côté. Proposer une interprétation de l’expérience esthétique des scènes théâtrales, d’un autre côté. Nous nous intéressons aux conditions d’expérience de la scène et à ses effets sur notre existence à partir de l’analyse des démarches artistiques de Stanislas Nordey, Claude Régy et François Tanguy, ainsi que d’un metteur en scène émergent, Simon Gauchet. Notre approche méthodologique articule les apports des phénoménologies de la perception (Merleau-Ponty) et de l’événement (Claude Romano) avec ceux du pragmatisme anglo-américain (John Dewey, Richard Shusterman, Stanley Cavell) ou d’inspiration angloaméricaine (Marielle Macé, Sandra Laugier). Le théâtre participe à des processus d’individualisation que nous pouvons comprendre comme des éléments de stylisation pour nos existences. Il a également une force éthique en ce qu’il contribue chez les individus au développement des dispositions du care. Ainsi, le théâtre peut-il être défini comme un art de l’existence / The purpose of this dissertation, at the crossroad of philosophy and theatre studies, is twofold. On one hand, the dissertation aims to point out how a study of theatre helps extend and renew problems of aesthetics concerning the ontological status of art. On the other hand, this work tries to suggest an interpretation of the aesthetic experience of theatrical stages. We are looking into in the experimental conditions of the stage and its effects on our existence, based on the analysis of the artistic approaches of Stanislas Nordey, Claude Régy and François Tanguy, along with a rising director, Simon Gauchet. Our methodological approach combines the contributions of the phenomenologies of perception (Merleau-Ponty) and of event (Claude Romano) with those of the Anglo-American pragmatism (John Dewey, Richard Shusterman, Stanley Cavell) as well as a pragmatism motivated by the Anglo-American tradition (Marielle Macé, Sandra Laugier). Theatre participates to individualization processes which can be interpreted as elements of stylization of our life. It also yields an ethical power by helping individuals to develop care skills. As such, it is possible to define theatre as an art of existence

This thesis deals with the stylization procedures used in the belletristic and journalistic texts written by Ladislav Fuks. The aim of the thesis is to define and demonstrate the basic distinctive methods and procedures such as repetition, intertextuality, ambiguity and mystification, ambivalence and autostylization. This thesis follows the methods mentioned above in characteristic exposures and transformations and examines the diversity of functions these methods fulfil in several texts of different nature. Furthermore, this thesis occupies with the relationship between these methods and author`s artistic stylization as well as to what extent he can be cogitated. This thesis is directed to defining the uniqueness of Fuks`s writing method which offers a variety of reading approaches. It allows to look at Fuks`s writing from different angles and observe the intensity of author`s personal attitudes projecting into his texts. Keywords Ladislav Fuks, stylization, stylization procedures, deliberateness, unpremeditation, repetition, intertextuality, ambiguity and mystification, ambivalence, autostylization, variation(s), memory

This master's thesis elaborates correspondence between F. X. Šalda and Růžena Svobodová. Based on extensive research of their entire correspondence, it tries to give general characteristic of letters (their extent, dating, the question of their publication, the intention for its literary utilization ect.) and compare all of the correspondence with publication Tížívá samota. Despite of the scope of the publication it includes only fragment of their conversations. The thesis analyses letters and their content of self- stylisation of the authors themselves, alternatively stylisation of the addressee, and out of the extraordinary nature of letters it polemizes to what extent is their correspondence reflection of lived out reality or a literary fiction. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

O ponto fundamental desta tese é a comprovação de que os mitos e arquétipos presentes na obra em prosa de Mário de Sá-Carneiro auxiliam na formação de uma visão de mundo do autor. Mitos e arquétipos representam motivos, elementos temáticos fundamentais que aparecem e se repetem nos textos literários ao longo do tempo e revelam metaforicamente um conjunto de valores. Cada autor tem a sua mitologia particular, ou seja, mesmo que a criação literária seja feita pelo desejo consciente do artista de construir o seu texto, esses elementos temáticos aparecem em sua obra, tenha ele consciência disso ou não. Então, fez-se um levantamento dos principais mitos e arquétipos presentes na obra em prosa de Mário de Sá-Carneiro, depreendendo-se os valores ideológicos, éticos e estéticos que eles representam, para assim mostrar que eles auxiliam na sua visão de mundo. Os principais mitos encontrados foram o de Eros e Thanatos, de Salomé, da busca, e o da criação. Os arquétipos fundamentais são o do fidalgo simbolista assim nomeado dentro desta tese, a partir do arquétipo identificado por Edmund Wilson, em sua obra O Castelo de Axel e o da femme fatale. A partir de então, percebeu-se que estes elementos temáticos supracitados revelam alguns valores fundamentais para o autor, forjando uma visão de mundo que se caracteriza por alguns pontos basilares. Um deles é a insatisfação com a realidade, que se tenta resolver com a criação de uma arte tida como genial e superior. Esse sentimento de descontentamento é fruto também do fato de o artista moderno não se adaptar ao mundo de sua época, por isso seu refúgio na arte (que muitas vezes descamba para a estetização da vida), e em uma espécie de dandismo heróico. Isso dá um tom trágico e grandioso à existência desse indivíduo, considerado superior aos demais. Outro ponto importante da visão de mundo de Sá-Carneiro é a noção de que o amor só se resolve na morte. A causa central disso é uma concepção dicotômica da mulher tida ou como femme fatale ou burguesa ingênua , que impede a concretização de um relacionamento maduro e saudável. / The fundamental point of this thesis is the corroboration that the myths and the archetypes of the works of Mário de Sá-Carneiro assist in the formation of his vision of the world. Myths and archetypes represent motifs, thematic elements that appear many times in universal Literature and can reveal a set of values in a metaphoric way. Each writer has his own mythology, and even the literary creation is made in a conscious way, these thematic elements appear in his work, even he doesn´t know that. Then, this thesis made a research of the main myths and archetypes that is relevant in the literary works of Mário de Sá-Carneiro, perceiving the ideological, ethical and aesthetic values that they represent, in order to show how they assist in his set of values. The main myths that were found are Eros e Thanatos, Salomé, the quest and the creation. The main archetypes found were symbolist noble that are named this way from the archetype found by Edmund Wilson, in his work Axel´s Castle and the femme fatale. These thematic elements reveal some author´s essential values, forging his vision of the world, which is characterized for some basic points. One of them, is the sentiment of dissatisfaction with the reality, and the artist tries to solve it with the creation of some superior and brilliant form of art. This feeling of dissatisfaction is also cause by the fact that the modern artist is not well adapted in his own world, because of that he escapes to the art (that in many cases leads to a kind of stylization of life), and to a form of heroic dandyism. All of this gives a tragic and magnificent tone to this individual´s existence, which is considered superior among the others. Another important point in Mário de Sá-Carneiro´s vision of the world is the idea that love can only be resolved by death. It is caused by a dichotomy in the vision of the woman that is considered as a femme fatale or a naïve bourgeois woman that hinders a mature and healthy relationship.

O ponto fundamental desta tese é a comprovação de que os mitos e arquétipos presentes na obra em prosa de Mário de Sá-Carneiro auxiliam na formação de uma visão de mundo do autor. Mitos e arquétipos representam motivos, elementos temáticos fundamentais que aparecem e se repetem nos textos literários ao longo do tempo e revelam metaforicamente um conjunto de valores. Cada autor tem a sua mitologia particular, ou seja, mesmo que a criação literária seja feita pelo desejo consciente do artista de construir o seu texto, esses elementos temáticos aparecem em sua obra, tenha ele consciência disso ou não. Então, fez-se um levantamento dos principais mitos e arquétipos presentes na obra em prosa de Mário de Sá-Carneiro, depreendendo-se os valores ideológicos, éticos e estéticos que eles representam, para assim mostrar que eles auxiliam na sua visão de mundo. Os principais mitos encontrados foram o de Eros e Thanatos, de Salomé, da busca, e o da criação. Os arquétipos fundamentais são o do fidalgo simbolista assim nomeado dentro desta tese, a partir do arquétipo identificado por Edmund Wilson, em sua obra O Castelo de Axel e o da femme fatale. A partir de então, percebeu-se que estes elementos temáticos supracitados revelam alguns valores fundamentais para o autor, forjando uma visão de mundo que se caracteriza por alguns pontos basilares. Um deles é a insatisfação com a realidade, que se tenta resolver com a criação de uma arte tida como genial e superior. Esse sentimento de descontentamento é fruto também do fato de o artista moderno não se adaptar ao mundo de sua época, por isso seu refúgio na arte (que muitas vezes descamba para a estetização da vida), e em uma espécie de dandismo heróico. Isso dá um tom trágico e grandioso à existência desse indivíduo, considerado superior aos demais. Outro ponto importante da visão de mundo de Sá-Carneiro é a noção de que o amor só se resolve na morte. A causa central disso é uma concepção dicotômica da mulher tida ou como femme fatale ou burguesa ingênua , que impede a concretização de um relacionamento maduro e saudável. / The fundamental point of this thesis is the corroboration that the myths and the archetypes of the works of Mário de Sá-Carneiro assist in the formation of his vision of the world. Myths and archetypes represent motifs, thematic elements that appear many times in universal Literature and can reveal a set of values in a metaphoric way. Each writer has his own mythology, and even the literary creation is made in a conscious way, these thematic elements appear in his work, even he doesn´t know that. Then, this thesis made a research of the main myths and archetypes that is relevant in the literary works of Mário de Sá-Carneiro, perceiving the ideological, ethical and aesthetic values that they represent, in order to show how they assist in his set of values. The main myths that were found are Eros e Thanatos, Salomé, the quest and the creation. The main archetypes found were symbolist noble that are named this way from the archetype found by Edmund Wilson, in his work Axel´s Castle and the femme fatale. These thematic elements reveal some author´s essential values, forging his vision of the world, which is characterized for some basic points. One of them, is the sentiment of dissatisfaction with the reality, and the artist tries to solve it with the creation of some superior and brilliant form of art. This feeling of dissatisfaction is also cause by the fact that the modern artist is not well adapted in his own world, because of that he escapes to the art (that in many cases leads to a kind of stylization of life), and to a form of heroic dandyism. All of this gives a tragic and magnificent tone to this individual´s existence, which is considered superior among the others. Another important point in Mário de Sá-Carneiro´s vision of the world is the idea that love can only be resolved by death. It is caused by a dichotomy in the vision of the woman that is considered as a femme fatale or a naïve bourgeois woman that hinders a mature and healthy relationship.

This diploma thesis is based on the bachelor thesis Chodské nářečí ve třech generacích. It expands on the topic of the "chod" dialect from the works of Jindřich Šimon Baar aswell as contemporary authors. The basis of this work is formed by a comparison of the current spoken form of the dialect with the dialect's version from the 1950s and comparison of the dialect stylization in Baar's books with todays stylization. The aim is to examine the evolution of the "chod" dialect's stylization and spoken form. This thesis is based on the hypothesis of a slowly disappearing dialect in all aspects and searches for evidence of this occurrence. Basis for the theoretical part are findings about Jindřich Šimon Baar, his life and his work. Furthermore the current knowledge about dialects with a focus on the southwestern dialect "chod". No less important is the part examining text stylization. The practical part is based on the language analysis of Baar's books partly written in a dialect in comparison with books of contemporary authors. And also comparison of audio recordings of the dialect with recordings from the archive of Jindřich Jindřich.