Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [116]-130).

This thesis is devoted to the topic of representation of Italy in the travel literature by Czech writers in the period before the First World War. The corpus contains the following lyrics: Rome 1906-1907 by Josef Svatopluk Machar, Memories from a journey to Italy by Josef Stejskal and Summer in Italy by Jaroslav Hilbert. In the first part I will introduce and describe historical and cultural development of Italy and also the fact how the Czech lands looked up on Risorgimento. Then I describe the individual authors, their literary works and selected corpus works. I define the circumstances of the origin of the text and find the answer to the question why cited authors focused just on Italy. In the second part I analyse the selected works thematically, I create a synthesis and in conclusion I assess, how in the period before First World War, the Czech society was looking up on Italy.

The aim is to create a basic imagination about the poetic school of J. Vrchlicky on the basic of selected literary historical synthesis. Subsequently my task is to create a database of information about book publications which belong to this field. The aim of the work is to find a representative sample of book publications which comment Jaroslav Vrchlicky´s work and his after epigones. Therefore, I focus on authors who belong into the enclave Poetry School of Jaroslav Vrchlicky. I chronologically sort and briefly characterize these poets and writers.

Green room at castle Blatná and resources of its decoration Dissertation "Green room at castle Blatná and resources of its decoration" deals with the decoration of the room in the tower of castle Blatná called by plant decoration covering the walls of the green room. It is striving to find mainly models or inspiration of its painting. After evaluation of the basic literature there is a chapter which introduces castle Blatná as whole. Therefore, it includes the introduction of the history of castle Blatná, its construction development and decoration of the Room of a knight in the Old castle. The next part is already dealing with the green room itself. Gradually, it is searching for connections with graphics, book painting and tapestries. The last chapter contents the stylistic and iconographical-iconological evaluation of the whole decoration. It is striving to identify particular themes of figural paintings and to find a clue to the revealing the background of thought of the whole decoration.

This diploma thesis has following goals: (1) to describe the original form of the point scheme suggested by doc. Jaroslav Skála (2) to describe the contemporary form of point schemes in chosen specialized wards for substance abuse treatment in psychiatric and general hospitals in the Czech Republic (3) to describe differences among contemporary forms of point schemes and the point scheme suggested by Jaroslav Skála (4) to find out, whether there are efforts to work with the forms of point schemes; (5) to describe reasons, why some wards tend to change the point schneme. This thesis is devided into the theoretical and practical part, conclusion and following discussion. Theoretical part deals mostly with the theory of the point scheme - its founder, formation, history and theoretical background. It also deals with its place in behavioral and cognitive-behavioral therapy and contingency management. The practical part describes the original form of the point scheme, it also describes contemporary forms of point schemes and then compares them with the original form following chosen criterions. This part also deals with the problem, why the point scheme is not used in some wards, especially why they retreated from it. The research questions are answered in the conclusion. The discussion contains the...

In my master's thesis I inquire into Jaroslav Vrchlický's translation of French poetry. In five chapters I analyse Vrchlický's translations of the poems by the Parnasists José-Maria de Heredia, Sully Prudhomme, Leconte de Lisle and François Coppée; the fifth is the romantic author Victor Hugo. The analyses are preceded by a bibliographic-descriptive part, an overview of Vrchlický's studies related to the poet in question and reception of Vrchlický's translations in contemporary periodicals. The summarizing chapters describe Vrchlický's translation method and the relationship of F. X. Šalda as the leading figure of contemporary literary criticism to Jaroslav Vrchlický. A substantial part of the work is a bibliographical index of Vrchlický's translations of French poetry published in books and journals as well as a list of his critical studies. As information source we have used the digitalized card catalogue Retrobi available online at the website of the Institute of Czech Literature, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

The goal of this study was to find out how TV series from the normalization era written by Jaroslav Dietl showed women and their issues. I focused on the 70's and 80's TV series, whose stories take place at the time when they were made. First, I set ten model situations based on the professional literature. Then I applied them on selected female characters from the chosen series and determined whether these model situations were used (heroine was not displayed stereotypically) or not (heroine was displayed stereotypically). I applied a similar system on ten films from the normalization era to compare the characters with each other, to compare Dietl's TV series with each other and to compare his work with other works. I found out that Jaroslav Dietl fulfilled the stereotypes about women at that time, but only to some extent. Ratio of female characters beyond stereotypes to stereotype characters was 26:34 (rounded 0.76). He also used very often a character of a submisive woman who is usually displayed in her home with her family. Another finding is that Dietl's work offers several distinctive heroines, namely Alžběta Čeňková, Dana Králová (both from TV series Nemocnice na kraji města) and Ivana Pešková (TV series Inženýrská odysea). Nemocnice na kraji města is also the only case which displays more...

The aim of this thesis is a translatological analysis of three major works of Czech literature: the play R.U.R. by Karel Čapek, the novel Babička (Grandmother) by Božena Němcová and the poems collection Maminka (Mother) by Jaroslav Seifert. The translations analyzed in this thesis were made by Kei Kurisu (one of the two R.U.R. translations, Babička), Chino Eiichi (the other R.U.R. translation) and Itaru Iijima (Maminka). I have based this analysis on two different concepts - one by Jiří Levý and the other by Peter Newmark. I focus on the translation phenomena typical for the individual literary forms (drama, prose and poetry) as well as on the phenomena that all three literary forms have in common (the instances of misunderstanding the original, the cases of interpretation (not) following the intention of the original author).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2007 Nov 22

I will follow the theoretical and critical discourse, related to establishing of Czech literary naturalism. My sources will be both book editions (essays from the volumes "Lehký harcovník", or "O národní literaturu", made available by the Melantrich publishing company) and journalistic production. Among the personalities she will focus on F. Schulz and V. Mrštík, possibly on other authors according to the primary heuristics results. The idea about general extension of naturalism will be provided by relevant syntheses or partial monographs (ADČL III; Haman: Trvání v proměně; Janáčková: Česká literatura na přelomu století; Český román na sklonku 19. století).