Etude systématique des œuvres d'Henri Troyat consacrées à sa patrie d'origine, la Russie. Celles-ci sont composées, d'une part, de la représentation sous forme romanesque de la vie en ancienne Russie, et, d'autre part, de nombreuses biographies de souverains et personnages russes célèbres. La première partie de la thèse est consacrée à la description de l'univers franco-russe. La seconde partie présente l'homogénéité et i'hétérogénéité du texte littéraire. Henri Troyat peut être à la fois auteur, narrateur, personnage principal dans des romans où la fiction se mêle à la réalité. Naturalisé Français à l'âge de vingt-et-un ans, il entreprend aussitôt une carrière romanesque couronnée très vite par le prix du roman populiste et le prix Concourt, il se consacre à un dialogue de deux cultures dont il est peut-être le seul à posséder la clé. C'est ce que l'on s'est efforcé d'analyser dans cette seconde partie de la thèse. Dans la troisième partie sont présentées les éminiscences russes précises se référant à ses textes et à ceux des auteurs classiques russes les plus célèbres. Les russismes, les citattens, les chansons constituent une sorte de florilège que Ton a essayé de présenter dans sa grande diversité et sa grande beauté. La lecture de l'œuvre considérable d'Henri Troyat donne grâce à la fiction romanesque, servie par une remarquable rédaction et contrôlée en permanence par des références familiales précises, une vision incomparable de la Russie éternelle et de son histoire. L'annexe mérite mention, car elle constitue un important glossaire où l'on retrouve des mots français russifiés en abondonnant leur signification initiale.

This thesis presents an empirical study of the meeting between a group of doctoral students and their research milieus, understood as a web of values in the social rooms. The purpose is to explore what these research milieus mean for the doctoral students and their questions about views of life.   The theoretical points of departure are on one hand the Uppsala Studies in Faith and Ideologies and on the other the concept of habitus in the study Homo Academicus of Pierre Bourdieu, including the idea that the postgraduate studies can be seen as a secondary socialization.   The study consists of three parts: an observation study, a questionnaire study and a field survey consisting of personal interviews.   The results are in short: 1.      Approximately seven of ten doctoral students reflect on questions about views of life every day or every week. 2.      The milieus of views of life, as interwoven parts of the research milieus, have influence on how the doctoral students think about questions of life. The empirical material shows that there is “a now” and “a then” to these questions. There often appears to be a difference between the cluster of life values in the research milieu and the much more soft values of the students that initiates this process. 3.      The value process mentioned above that is an important part of the secondary socialization often ends in conformity with those values that are parts of the present paradigm. However the process can also end in such a value conflict that the students (ca 25%) often or very often have reflected on discontinuing their postgraduate studies. The students’ soft values seem to be more important than the values they meet in the research milieu. 4.      These value questions, including the research ethics and the postulates of the paradigms, have little or no place in the university education. A part of the participants are of the opinion that questions about views of life are taboo in their research milieu.   The results from the empirical study are then confronted first with the theoretical concepts of Pierre Bourdieu, particularly his overly structuralistic view of agents and their habitus, and then with some central moments in the theoretical concept of Anders Jeffner, the prominent figure in Uppsala studies in faiths and ideologies. It is Jeffner’s individualistic view of the autonomous actor with a relative constancy in views of life that is called into question by the empirical results of this study.

The aim of submitted thesis is to bring a selection of journal texts by Růžena Jesenská, focused on period 1910-1930. This thesis includes, next to the edition of selected texts, edition note and commentary. The thesis reflects historical context and context of Růžena Jesenská's artworks, relates selected texts to significant artistic texts by Růžena Jesenská (Mimo svět, Z nepřístupných zahrad etc.)

The dissertation deals with a complete cycle of piano pieces by Zdeněk Fibich called The Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences. The cycle has been largely presented in the literature as a `composer's love diary`, used to search for identical motifs across the composer's late work and understood in the context of programme music. The aim of the dissertation is to evaluate objectively this present majority view and to put a new view on it, to inform about the circumstances of the comprehensive complete edition of The Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences, to analyse the ensemble as a set of lyrical piano pieces with their specific purely musical features and to place the Fibich cycle into the context of the lyrical piano piece of the late 19th century. The work focuses mainly on musical- structural analysis based on grasping the form of compositions with the predominant way of thematic-motivational construction, observation and comparison of tonal fitting, dimension, prescribed times and searching for motivational, cyclic and other possible links. The results of the work enable us to view The Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences as a unique cycle of lyrical piano pieces from the end of the 19th century with their typical characteristics and key features of the musical kind and also show the unique...