Title: Literary text in French language teaching at Czech high schools Author: Bc. Anna Brodinová, anna.brodinova@gmail.com Department: Institute of Romance studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University Supervisor: PhDr. Hana Loucká, CSc. Number of characters: 147 252 Keywords: literary text, poetical text, prose, dramatic text, French teaching, high school Abstract: Literary text, meaning a text enriched with aestethical quality, represents one means to convey culture of a country. Its role in foreing language teaching is to help strenghten communicative competency and develop socio-cultural competency. The way literary text is used in didactics and approached in general has changed considerably in terms of individual methodical principles of foreign language teaching. Firstly, in the period of grammar- translation method, literary text was of the utmost importance, contrary to the beginning of the period of direct methods when it was completely abandonned. Nowadays, literary text is understood as one of the effective supplements in foreing language teaching. The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, considered to be a fundamental document for principles of foreign language teaching at present, identifies for each level of proficiency the ability of reading comprehension. This ability...

(in English) The Master's Thesis surveys the origins of academic folkloristics in Finland characterised by the birth of so called Finnish school of folkloristics and historic- geographic method. It breaks downs the method's specifics, theoretical starting points and practical applications. The thesis is also concerned with the work of Finnish folklorist Satu Apo who uses emic units and her own structural classification for studying folk narrative.

The theoretical part of the diploma is focused on the analysis of particular areas and concepts related to children's recitation regarding the first level of primary school. The first half of the practical part looks into primal motivation resulting into the decision to dedicate oneself to recitation, as well as the method of text selection by children and their reasons for preference of poetry to prose. The method of controlled interview was used for researching child reciters at the first level of primary school. The same method was applied to research methods of management, preparation and evaluation of children's reciter by adults who work with and assess the reciter. The second half of the practical part offers and describes examples of both group and individual approaches to a particular text.

Through the interpretation of the short rural prose of five selected authors of the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century (K. V. Rais, J. K. Šlejhar, A. a V. Mrštíkové, T. Nováková, J. Kratochvíl) the thesis deals with the topic of the rural family according to a few aspects that were chosen on the basis of the historical and sociological findings of the technical literature about the rural family in the nineteenth century. The aspects treated by the above mentioned authors are ordered into the chapters "The family model", "Home and world", "Family and the rural year", "Family and the conditions of property", "Birth and death in the rural family" and "Family and traditions and the norms of religious life". The works of the authors are inserted into the context of the rural prose of the nineteenth century. The follow-up interpretation proves the differences in the approach of the authors to the depicted topic.

ŠUMAVA - NATURE AND PEOPLE - THROUGH THE EYES OF KAREL KLOSTERMANN (with special attention to the frequency,ways and possibilities of individual colours' usage) The aim of this thesis is to designate and describe qualities of the residents of the central Bohemian Forest and the attributes of local nature in the way they were depicted by the writer Karel Klostermann (1848-1923). The results of individual analyses performed in this thesis present the inhabitants of the Bohemian Forest as a society that is conservative, religion-based, maybe even superstitious and bearing a certain distrust to the surrounding world. The Bohemian Forest's landscape is very demanding, the impact of which is visible in the inhabitants' character traits - the increased directness and, in certain aspects, vulgarity of people living under these conditions. Nature is often approached as a literary image that is further developed in accordance with the spirit of impressionism. This is concluded, among other sources, from the specific use of colours that is further analyzed. The emphasis of sense perception pervades almost every descriptive passage.

This diploma thesis is dealing with problems of Judaism during the Second World War in Czech literature, prosaic writings at the turn of the fifties and so called golden sixties of the twentieth century in particular. The thesis provides an analysis of literary output of five Czech writers: the collection of short stories Psí život by Ludvík Aškenazy, novella Bez krásy, bez límce by Hana Bělohradská, novel Krutá léta by František Kafka, the collection of short stories Mí černovlasí bratři by Ladislav Fuks and the collection of short stories Démanty noci by Arnošt Lustig. Theoretical part of this thesis specifies Judaism phenomenon during the Second World War, in the second half of fifties and in the sixties. Practical part pays attention to the subject matter of the Second World War in literature and school education and at the same time brings the analysis of chosen writings. The thesis also provides an analysis of The Framework Education Programme and worksheets as a teaching aid to help teachers and students as well to understand the problems and to achieve their goals given in FEP or didactic principles of interpretation.

This diploma thesis focuses on the personality, life and work of German author Helga Königsdorf and the analysis of selected prosaic works. The aim of the first part is to provide a well-arranged and comprehensive set of biographical information about this author with an emphasis on her literary career, work and socio-political context. The second part is devoted to the study of selected prosaic texts with an emphasis on providing the detailed analysis of female characters. The aim of this part is to provide an overview of topics and standpoints related to the status of women in the society at that time. The analysed female characters deal with topics such as women's position in science at that time or problems in partner, family or professional relationships related to women's emancipation. The conclusion of the thesis offers a brief summary and comparison of differences and similarities considering the personalities, opinions and priorities of these female characters. KEY WORDS German literature, GDR literature, Helga Königsdorf, literary analysis, female characters' analysis

This diploma thesis focuses on the personality, life and work of German author Helga Königsdorf and the analysis of selected prosaic works. The aim of the first part is to provide a well-arranged and comprehensive set of biographical information about this author with an emphasis on her literary career, work and socio-political context. The second part is devoted to the study of selected prosaic texts with an emphasis on providing the detailed analysis of female characters. The aim of this part is to provide an overview of topics and standpoints related to the status of women in the society at that time. The analysed female characters deal with topics such as women's position in science at that time or problems in partner, family or professional relationships related to women's emancipation. The conclusion of the thesis offers a brief summary and comparison of differences and similarities considering the personalities, opinions and priorities of these female characters. KEY WORDS German literature, GDR literature, Helga Königsdorf, literary analysis, female characters' analysis

The diploma thesis deals with modern English fantasy tales for children and their role with respect to ethical context and moral mission. The first part is a general introduction to child heroes´ experience, their notion of Good and Evil and their attitude to given rules, conventions and circumstances. The practical part deals with particular interpretations of the issue, the theme of the so called other world and the concept of authority not only as a moral example but also as a tool of power and manipulation. The thesis is based on the analysis of particular stories by British authors (C.S. Lewis, P. Pullman, and J.K. Rowling), in which different points of view are shown. The summary brings final conclusions about what the stories have in common.

This master´s thesis concern about personal and family strategies of rural population in the second part of 19. century. The following strategies are especially affiliated with choosing children´s name, select of godfathers, partners choices, labour migration and reservatum rusticum. The origin for rechearch of this theme is possible divide in two big parts. The first generate literary works of the realist art movement 19. century (novel and short stories from Jindřich Šimon Baar, Karel Klostermann, Teréza Nováková, Karel Václav Rais, Gabriela Preissová and others) and trivial literature the same period (novel and short stories from V. Čuta, Josef Jahoda, Vlasta Javořická, Vlasta Pittnerová, Marie E. Vokáčová, Bohumil Zahradník-Brodský and others). The second part is consist of origin evidential (birth, marriage and death records, census) and insurance charakter. It was choosed a territory of Besednice for a concrete comparation.