5.2 Resumé v anglickém jazyce Aesthetic Education in the concept of Bohumil Markalous. The object of this thesis is the work of Bohumil Markalous. This author dedicated his lifework to Aesthetic Education. His works on this topic have never been published together. They were published only in form of many articles and essays in newspapers, journals and magazines. This work is based on texts about Aesthetic Education written not only by Markalous, but also by other authors as we try to present their concepts as well. Among the most important authors we can name Otakar Hostinský, Josef Patočka and Otakar Zich. In the first part of our work we dedicate ourselves to the way Bohumil Markalous formed his opinions about the development of Aesthetic Education. The second part of our work focuses on the author`s concept of Aesthetic Education itself. In the third part of this work is we deal with the current state of education in relation to the development of Aesthetic Education. In addition to the topic of aesthetics, we deal with the term Eidiko, used by the author to refer to the cultivation of the senses, especially of sight.

The diploma thesis focuses on the ‚skaz' narrative on the example of the literary work of Bohumil Hrabal and Jaroslav Rudiš. The theoretical definition and main features of this narrative strategy are based on the works of Boris Ejchenbaum, Viktor Vinogradov, Wolf Schmid, and Miroslav Drozda. The thesis also introduces a Czech variant of ‚skaz' in the form of a ‚pub story', defined by Emanuel Frynta and Václav Černý. The following analytical chapters are devoted to ‚skaz' in the literary work of Bohumil Hrabal and Jaroslav Rudiš. Finally, the characteristics of ‚skaz' in the work of both authors are compared.

The thesis is about theatre play I served the king of England, written by czech autor Bohumil Hrabal. In first theoretical part I briefly concentrate on author, his life and his work and I choose performances of I served the king of England with this script. At the end I analyze a drama. I describe history of clothing and history of the Czechoslovak Republic. In a practical part of my thesis I analyze all dramatical characters and give description and explication of their costumes. And then I use designs at the end of my thesis.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the interpersonal influences which Bohumil Makovsky, Director of Bands and Chairman of the Music Department at Oklahoma A&M College from 1915 to 1943, had on his students and peers, as confirmed through the perceptions of selected individuals, and to determine what personal characteristics and means he drew upon to induce changes in his students and peers.

En Tchécoslovaquie, les lendemains du Printemps de Prague (1968) sont marqués par une forte répression. Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997), devenu célèbre par ses parutions des années 1960, est alors interdit de publication dans les maisons d'édition d'État, à l'instar de nombre d'auteur·e·s de l'époque. Il diffuse donc son texte Une trop bruyante solitude (1973-1974) en samizdat, un moyen d'auto-publication employé en Tchécoslovaquie comme en Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques (URSS) ainsi que dans d'autres pays du bloc de l'Est pour contourner les contraintes censoriales. Par le prisme de ce texte, cette étude s'intéresse à la rencontre entre la figure ambiguë de Hrabal, qui collabore parfois avec les autorités, parfois avec la dissidence, et la sphère des samizdats, sorte de brèche dans l'ère Gutenberg. Ce mémoire examine les contextes sociohistorique, symbolique et matériel d'Une trop bruyante solitude en s'appuyant sur des théories de l'histoire du livre et de la matérialité de la littérature. La recherche montre comment le récit fait écho à sa forme matérielle - un samizdat qui circule clandestinement dans un contexte de censure étatique pour raconter une histoire de livres que l'on détruit. Cet exemple amène à considérer la censure, thématisée à l'intérieur du récit, non plus seulement sous l'angle de l'interdiction ou de la restriction de la parole, mais aussi sous celui de la création. / In Czechoslovakia, the aftermath of the Prague Spring (1968) was marked by severe repression. Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997), who had become famous through his publications in the 1960s, was banned from publication by state publishing houses, as were many other authors of the time. He therefore distributed his text Too Loud a Solitude (1973-1974) in samizdat, a means of self-publication used in Czechoslovakia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and other countries of the Eastern Bloc to circumvent censorship constraints. Through the prism of this text, this study focuses on the encounter between the ambiguous figure of Hrabal, who sometimes collaborates with the authorities, sometimes with dissidence, and the sphere of samizdats, a kind of crack in the Gutenberg era. This dissertation investigates the socio-historical, symbolic, and material contexts of Too Loud a Solitude by drawing on theories of book history and the materiality of literature. It shows how the narrative echoes its material form - a samizdat that circulates clandestinely in a context of state censorship to tell a story of books being destroyed. This example leads us to consider censorship, thematized within the narrative, not only from the point of view of prohibition or restriction of speech, but also from that of creation.

The subject of this thesis is a two-part novel Heidi's Lehr- und Wanderjahre (1880) and Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat (1881) by Swiss author Johanna Spyri and its two Czech translations from 1933/34 and 1971. The theoretical part deals with the author's personality and her work. The original text is then put into cultural-historical and literary context of that time and is examined from literary scientific and linguistic points of view. Subsequently, the thesis describes translation norms of the given time periods, personalities of both translators and briefly presents their translations. In connection with the latter translation, text adaptation and text manipulation issues are also discussed. Further attention is paid to the specifics of translation of children's literature and the reception of both the original text and the translations. The empirical part of the thesis provides a translation analysis of selected parts of the original and the translations and concludes with a comparison of both Czech versions.

(EN) The doctoral thesis Varianta v poetice Bohumila Hrabala [The process of variation in Bohumil Hrabal's poetics] studies the creative process of writing variants, which the author employed in the whole of his literary production. The main theoretical focus of the thesis is the concept of semantic "openness" introduced by Italian semiotician Umberto Eco (1932-2016) as the possibility of inter­ preting a literary work on the basis of the aestetic information (i.e. the formal construction) of the text. A further elaboration of Eco's concept is to be found in a case study conducted by Michael Špirit (1965-) on one text written by Hrabal in the 50s and presented by Špirit as an example of a concluded text yet open in meaning, and its variant published in the 60s, which according to Špirit has the features of an open text, but is semantically closed. Through the textual analysis of three groups of variant texts written by Hrabal, the thesis argues the development of the process of variation from texts written in the 50s towards the semantic closed­ ness of their variants published in the 60s (epos Krásná Poldi- the short story Krásná Poldi; short stories Kain and Fádní stanice-novella Ostře sledované vlaky-short story Legenda o Kainovi), whi­ le demonstrating the opposite direction of the same process...

Too Loud a Solitude is one of the most famous texts of Bohumil Hrabal and possibly it is his most philosophical one. The following thesis interprets this text from the philosophical points of view as a statement about modern age and an individuals place in it. Based on one of the central sentences - "The heavens are not humane" - spoken by the protagonist Haňťa in his monologue in, the text is read as defense against incommensurability of the world with an indiviual. Christian a ancient Greek's way of defense are considered as not appliable to the age Haňťa lives at, but also as somehow present in his way of defense, which is described as a specific type of "pábení". "The end of Christian epoch" (as Hrabal himself puts it) which occurs in Too Loud a Solitude is described then in terms of mechanizing and forgetting of actual humane being. Existencial analysis of Haňťa's state after the end of epoch follows. The thesis mostly reffers to following thinkers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Jaspers, Albert Camus and Jean Améry.

This thesis deals with works of Bohumil Hrabal in British and American context. The goal of the thesis is to describe the reception of Bohumil Hrabal's books by literary criticism written in English from its beginnings to the present day. In this relation, the attention is paid to the phenomenon of Bohumil Hrabal as a writer and to literary history, the position of his name in Anglo-American scholarly literature and translations of Hrabal's works into English and its publishing. Key words Bohumil Hrabal, reception, publishing, translating, England, Great Britain, United States of America

In my diploma thesis, I looked at part of Prague 8 - Libeň, in the kontext of the life and work of writer Bohumil Hrabal. I tried to show Libeň in the twentieth century, when the famous writer lived there. At first I made efforts to describe Bohumil Hrabal's life and Libeň, how we can find it in his books. Than I outlined the history of Libeň. In the main part I tried to show real locations in Libeň, which Bohumil Hrabal visited and he liked them. It was mainly Libeň castle, a lot of views of hills in Libeň, the vicinity of Vltava river and Rokytka brook and atmosphere of pubs in Libeň. The diploma thesis shows Libeň in last century especially in the kontext of Hrabal's trialogy Weddings in the house.