The thesis deals with the problem of the expulsion of Germans in Czech literature, particularly in novels such as Stain/Stigma, The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch, and Lost Children. All these three works were published after 1989 and thus are not influenced by a socialist discourse. They pit, on the contrary, against it and in the way of describing the theme they follow up The Divine Rainbow by Jaroslav Durych and Adelheid by Vladimír Körner. The expulsion is relatively often reflected. Starting with Anna Sedlmayerová, through Václav Řezáč, Vladimír Körner, Zdeněk Šmíd, and finishing with Kateřina Tučková. Each of them approaches this theme in their individual way. Řezáč in the spirit of his time-discourse, which he co-creates with his work; Durych and Körner rail against Řezáč's conception; Šmíd and Tučková both feel a personal need to give their opinion, as the expulsion partly touches them and speaks to them through the land and the town. The identity of literary characters is in large measure defined by the time-discourse, in which the work originates, and the discourse of the period, which is depicted. Two types of influence arise from this. The part of the discourse is folk myths, transformed and modified for several times, so they can be used for particular aims and a particular period. How influential for the literary discourse of the expulsion were the myths created is going to be clear from the conclusions. Similarly I will try to answer the question how far are the discourse and the formation of the identity of literary characters in interpreted works tied to each other.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:174518 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | KRLÍN, Jan |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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