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Natálija Moutvicová Humour in Karel Poláček's Proses This work presents the works of one of the most popular czech writer and journalist Karel Poláček in the backround of his tragic life. The author's works devide to journalistic works, literary works and works for film and theater. This work contents analysis of humour as a specific kind of comics in Karel Poláček's writings. The term "humour" is defined by the theory of Henri Bergson,Vladimír Borecký and others. Particularly detailed is engaged in his short stories and supreme humorous novels. This work compares two author's creative periods and studies the development of his humour. It focuses to themes, motives, typical characters and the distinctive style artistic practices of author. Poláček's humour is directed against cliché and phrases. This work tries to compare the Poláček's humour with humour in the works of other czech authors from twentieth century.

This work focuses on finding instruments which confer a lyrical character to the novel La última niebla of the Chilean writer María Luisa Bombal. The study is based on Emil Staiger's observations about basics concepts of poetic. Specifically, the work treats his concept of lyricism. B asically, the Swiss literary theorist underscored the role of the author, which must necesarilly cancel a distance between himself and his creation in order to achieve lyrical tone. All in all, this and other informations about the lyrical prose of the 20th century prove that lyricism depends especially on the representation of the entity of narrator. María Luisa Bombal as a cosmopolitan writer managed with her production to introduce new style of writing in backward Chilean literary scene. Obvisouly, the p resence of innovative elements such as a utilization of dream poetic or natural symbology takes part in final lyrical tone of the novel La última niebla, however, the most essential renovations within her production are the specific concept of narrator and narrative perspective.

This disertation thesis is about czech social prose of 30´s of the 20th century, which is analyzed and interpreted in czech literary discourse and then integrated in context of world literature of 20´s and 30´s. This study focuses in detail on american social prose of the first half of the 20th century, which is analyzed and discussed. Then thesis try to compare and interpret of czech and american social prose, it look for common atributes in selected texts and it try to find possible inspirations and influences in them. A part of this work is bibliographic study which summarizes czech social prose and czech translations of american social prose authors.

The image of the Camorra in contemporary Neapolitan prose The Camorra or "the System", as lots of residents of Naples call it, is a criminal organization that has intensified its activities since the 1980s and today it affects all aspects of lives of people living in Campania. This thesis focuses on the impact of the Camorra on lives and work of contemporary Neapolitan writers, or more precisely, it describes the way the theme of the Neapolitan mafia is represented in their books. The authors of the analyzed texts are Peppe Lanzetta, Giuseppe Ferrandino, Andrej Longo, Giuseppe Montesano, Simone Di Meo, Roberto Saviano and Valeria Parrella. For the purpose of this thesis, we have chosen the works that are interesting in terms of genre adaptation of the topic and in terms of the characteristics of the main characters of each story. Following the behaviour of the main characters, we observe the direct impact of the Camorra on life in Naples and its influence on the mentality of its inhabitants. We aim to define the conditions under which the people ruled by the Camorra are forced to live and at the same time, we analyze how they face up to this destiny: whether they persist and hope for change or resign and leave their hometown to try their luck elsewhere, mostly in northern Italy. Addressing each...

This thesis focuses on the personality of a writer and humorist Jarmila Hašková. It deals with a biographical summary of the writer's life and author's bibliography overview. The thesis is divided into two main chapters, the first deals with the author's life and the second dedicates to the author's creation. The first chapter describes the author's childhood spent in a large family, but it was accompanied by frequent health problems, furthermore, a relatively dramatical relationship with a writer Jaroslav Hašek and a period of author's life after separation, when Hašková came with her son Richard back to her parents. She gained not only a permanent job but also she took up a literary activity completely. The second chapter deals with the author's work in detail, initially with the work's beginnings, which relate to poetry. After that, it deals with prosaic writings in which lied centre of her creations and, ultimately, other arts sectors such as film and radio Hašková devoted. Jarmila Hašková wrote humoristic short stories primarily about daily life and interpersonal relations. The thesis gives an overview of the contemporary reception of Jarmila Hašková's prosaic works. The work is based on primary sources, mainly the sources place in the Museum of Czech Literature Literary Archive in the fond of...

This diploma work is devoted to the personality of contemporary Ukrainian writer Mariya Matios. Particular attention is focused on the analysis of her trilogy including Солодка Даруся, Нація and Майже ніколи не навпаки. The aim of this thesis is to explore ideological and thematic conception of novels and mechanisms used for their mediation. The introductory chapter presents a detailed analysis of the current literary process, issues of gender discourse in Ukrainian literature and characteristics of other discourses which the writer's works belong to. Based on this analysis the personality of Mariya Matios is included in the context of the current literature. The main part analyses specific topics of the trilogy and defines the specifics of author's attitude. The biggest attention is paid to the author's peculiarity in processing of historical issues, depiction of female characters and analysis of particular concepts (village people and sin) dominating in the trilogy. At the end her exceptionality and contribution to contemporary literature is evaluated.

Resumé Diploma thesis Zagreb in Croatian urban prose at the turn of 20th and 21st century deals with roles and influence of the Croatian capital on main characters of selected works of mentioned authors. The turn of the century was chosen deliberately, due to the disintegration of Yugoslavia, subsequent war conflict in Balkan and postwar search for certainties. These factors led to migration of a huge amount of people, e.g. into the area of New Zagreb which is an important urban feature of Croatian metropolis and therefore of this thesis. This thesis will try to clarify through the main characters of selected works the turbulent events and uncertain life circumstances from the end of the previous century and from the beginning of the new one which meant for some people a change of their lifestyle and stabilized order.

This thesis deals with dramatizations of literary works that were introduced at the National Theatre after1990. Compares prose texts with newly formed theatrical texts. It also focuses on the transformation of interpretations of individual works, which occurred as a result of dramatization. For each unfinished work also always gives relevant circumstances relating to the production.

The aim of this thesis is an interpretation of three prose works of a Prague Jewish German Author, Ludwig Winder (1889 - 1946). The introduction describes cultural and social milieu of the Jewish community in the beginning of the 20th century in Bohemia and Moravia.The Jewish identity was determined by three general factors: The assimilation of Jewish inhabitants arising from Enlightenments, anti-Semitism and birth of Zionism. The position of Czech Jewry was even more complicated due to the background of the society at the time, including Conflicts between Czechs and Germans in the multinational Monarchy and later on also in Czechoslovakia. Ludwig Winder deals with this subject in his book, 'Die Geschichte meines Vaters' (1946, published 2000). His novel, 'Die jüdische Orgel' (1922), talks about the specific discrepancies between the orthodox Jewish milieu of a small Moravian village and also a modern city at the turn of the 20th century. The novel points out a fight between the father and his son and the influence of rigid religious upbringings in relation of the protagonist to Judaism. In the short story 'Hugo. Tragödie eines Knaben' (1924), the work describes a lonely Jewish child, who no longer lives in his Jewish community, but in a secular society and outlines his upbringing and life....