- Educators in the Service of the Throne. Private Teachers of the Austrian- Hungarian Imperial Heirs Several potential successors were growing up during the lengthy reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I. But two of them, the Emperor's own son Crown Prince Rudolph and his nephew Franz Ferdinand, could never ascend to the throne due to their premature deaths. His grandnephew, Archduke Charles Franz Joseph, claimed the throne in the tense times of the First World War. For a would-be successor, not only military education was essential, but also language skills and such subjects as history, law and economy that the future ruler of a vast and ethnically diverse state was expected to have a good command of. This paper focuses on the lives of teachers who attended both the Emperor's and the Archduke's courts.

Karel Ančerl 1968-1973. A documentary monograph OBJECTIVES: The main objective of this thesis is to capture and describe the last five years (1968-1973) of life and artistic achievements of the conductor Karel Ančerl. This is a topic which has not been elaborated on an academic level yet. On the beginning of the captured period we find Ančerl to be a prominent member of the Czechoslovak music environment working as the chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic. At the end of this period, Ančerl permanently lived and worked in Canada as the chief conductor of the Toronto Symphony. This fact is reflected in the two main topics of this thesis. First, there is the theme of process of following a qualitative change which the Toronto Symphony undertook during Karel Ančerl's leadership. Second, there is the relationship of the conductor to the Czechoslovak environment and its musical tradition. Main axis of the thesis is defined by a chronological following of the affairs of Karel Ančerl's life story in the given period. METHODOLOGY: Since the estate of Karel Ančerl has been missing, some of the important - maybe even the most important - documents still remain unknown. The story is being told with the help of supporting sources, just like is the correspondence between Ančerl and Ivan Medek, which covers...

There have been many publications written about Henry VIII. It was his private life, because of which he primarily went down in history. Henry inherited the royal throne at a very young age. The Tudor dynasty ascended the English throne just for one generation. Henry's father ended the long−standing civil war. However, the fear of its continuation still remained. The most important task for the young king was to stabilize the position of the dynasty and to protect the throne against other pretenders. His whole life Henry lived in fear, that without a male heir, his family would be brought down. Catherine of Aragon became Henry's wife. There were many benefits from this union for England. The island kingdom was actively involved in continental policy. Nevertheless, Catherine was not able to give birth to an heir to England and fell into disgrace. Her nephew, Holy Roman Emperor, was the most powerfull ruler of the Christian Europe. Although he tried to prevent the annulment of their marriage by various means, he failed. Throughout his reign Charles was in a war conflict with the French king. He needed England like an ally against France even at the cost of his aunt's repudiation, which would remain without retaliation.

The Magisterial thesis deals with composers of jewish ancestry and their viola compositions. It consists of three parts. The first part describes the historical and religious context these composers lived in. The second part deals with the developement of jewish music and its characteristics. The last part is about the individual composers and their lives and works with focus on viola compositions.

The thesis Národní listy 1910 - 1914 is focused on the period of ownership change of Národní listy, which was bought by Pražská akciová tiskárna (Prague share printing house) in 1910 from the family of the deceased founder Dr. Julius Grégr. The daily journal, which has retained a degree of independence, has become the official press authority of the political party Národní strana by this sale, mainly represented by Karel Kramář and Alois Rašín. In individual chapters, I am gradually analyzing the underlying materials from which I drew for my work by putting Národní listy in the context of the time and circumstances that led to the creation of the daily journal. The thesis is also aimed to the activities of the preparatory committee, which initiated and succeeded in obtaining the Národní listy for the mladočeská political party. The main part of the text deals with the business transaction itself, illustrates the financial backstage of the company Pražská akciová tiskárna, examines the documents that accompanied the purchase and its preparation and describes the subsequent modernisation of the whole enterprise.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-06-22T13:06:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 1239262 bytes, checksum: 7771a41858b9b6b813e1e57862b7c084 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-22T13:06:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 1239262 bytes, checksum: 7771a41858b9b6b813e1e57862b7c084 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-31 / This dissertation proposes a comparative analysis of metafiction in the novel The French lieutenant's woman, by John Fowles and in the film with the same name, directed by Karel Reisz, with screenplay by Harold Pinter. Our theoretical frame highlights some of the main studies published in the field of metafiction. We supplement the investigation of metafiction in the literary and filmic narrative in interface with other theoretical contributions, among them: narratology, filmic adaptation and some theoreticians of postmodernism. We adopt as a methodological principle the comparative investigation of some aesthetic devices and procedures associated with metafiction (self-reflexivity, self-consciousness, intertextuality, mise-en-abyme, among others) as long as they have been emphasized in the appreciation of some selected narrative categories (narrator, epigraph, character, reader/spectator) in the literary and filmic contexts. As a whole, our results consider metafiction as being a privileged, mediatory, logic, processual and theoretical-critical tool for the in-depth comprehension of the filmic and literary narratives. / Esta dissertação propõe uma análise comparativa da metaficção no romance The French lieutenant's woman, de John Fowles e no filme homônimo, dirigido por Karel Reisz, com roteiro de Harold Pinter. Nosso aporte teórico focaliza, sobretudo, os principais estudos publicados na área da metaficção. Suplementamos a investigação da metaficção na narrativa literária e fílmica com a interface de outros subsídios teóricos, dentre eles: a narratologia, a adaptação fílmica e alguns teóricos do pós-modernismo. Adotamos como princípio metodológico, o exame comparado de alguns recursos e procedimentos estéticos filiados à metaficção (tais como, autorreflexividade, autoconsciência, intertextualidade, mise-en-abyme, entre outros), conforme foram sendo enfatizados ao longo da apreciação de algumas categorias narrativas selecionadas (narrador, epígrafe, personagem, leitor/espectador) nos contextos literários e fílmicos. Em síntese, nossos resultados recaem sobre a metaficção enquanto uma ferramenta teórico-crítica, processual, lógica, mediadora e privilegiada para a compreensão aprofundada das narrativas literária e fílmica em pauta.

The master diploma thesis "Media response of literary work with the prison theme by Jiri Stransky and Karel Pecka" maps the beletric works of Jiri Stransky and Karel Pecka which are influenced by their time in Communist prisons. The work deals with critical reviews of these literary works and it is based on contemporary reviews published in literary and other periodicals. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of reviews is included in a practical part of the master diploma. It is preceded by a theoretical part. In the theoretical part we shortly think about the importace of literary criticism but mostly important we clarify the conditions which led to the creation of Stransky's and Pecka's works. Thanks to the preserved documents from The National Archive and from The Archive of Security Forces we can now read about Stransky's and Pecka's arrest, interrogation and imprisonment in Communist prisons in the 1950s. Jiri Stransky was imprisoned in the years 1953-1960 and Karel Pecka between 1949 and 1959. The preserved documents outline also other repressions of Karel Pecka towards the State security, which occurred after his repase from prison in the sixties. In the theoretical part of master diploma we think about literaryy critism and we draw from works of Ansgar Nünning, Winfried Schulz, Terry...

Direct presidential election is a new phenomenon in Czech Republic which brought a challenge for political marketing. There was no previous experience with presidential campaigns and therefore there were a number of expectations how the candidates are going to carry out the campaigns. The thesis focuses on the election campaigns of individual candidates for Czech president in 2013. On a basis of the theoretical framework is an ambition of the thesis to analyze and compare the campaigns and subsequently to evaluate whether they have played an important role in the election, influenced voters' decisions and election results

This thesis deals with the work Liber de coronatione Karoli IV. imperatoris (Book on the coronation of Emperor Charles IV) from the middle of the 14th century. Its author Iohannes Porta de Annoniaco was a personal secretary and confidant of Cardinal Peter of Colombier who was commissioned by Pope Innocent VI to perform the imperial coronation of Charles IV in Rome in 1355. As an eyewitness, Iohannes Porta describes the cardinal's and Charles's journey to Rome, focuses in more detail on the events in Rome, and above all, the very act of coronation. The author also deals with the following events of the return journey of both the cardinal and the emperor. In addition, he included in his work copies of documents and correspondence related to the coronation. The text offers a valuable source of direct testimony about the course of Charles's Italian journey. The thesis aims to present a Czech translation of selected parts of Iohannes Porta's text, supplemented by explanatory notes, the purpose of which is to clarify certain factual or linguistic particularities of the text. The translation is accompanied by an introductory study. Its first part explains the historical context of Charles's imperial coronation, the next part focuses on the author and the overall characteristics of the work.

This thesis disserts on problem of translation of dative relations in Karel Čapek's "Tales from two pockets" into Japanese. Goal of the thesis is to identify and describe means of expression of dative in Japanese translation and figure out if there are any differences in interpretaion and expressing dative in Czech and Japanese and what they are. Using method of excerption of example sentences and comparation of original with translated version, I organised the example sentences into six categories according to linguistic means of expressing equivalent of Czech dative used in Japanese translation. In these six categories, there are included both grammatical and semanthic expressions and idioms and phrases. The result is the detection of the main difference in degree of necessity to express a dative subject explicitly. There is a strong tendency of Japanese to implicit expression of dativ subject by means of special expressions of personal orientation, semanthics of predicate or context.