http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96304 Issue 54 2026-04-03T23:10:22Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97177 „Hustý popis“ jako literárněvědná metoda?; “Thick description” as a method of literary theory? ; ; This paper deals with a selected example of the understanding of the Anglo-Saxon New Historicism by German literary scholars. It focuses on the method of “thick description” as formulated by the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz and as criticized by German literary scholar and ethnologist Thomas Fechner-Smarsly. In connection with the so-called anthropological turn, it consists in the application of ethnology in literary criticism. According to Geertz a semantic density arises from the complexity of described, but Geertz fails to formulate a general theory. Fechner sees a greatpotential for literary studies in the method of “thick description”, but he criticizes the lack of system in Geertz’, when he is reluctant to formulate a generally applicable model of this method. Fechner therefore calls for contextualization, organization and instantiation methods of “thick description” in literary studies and, moreover, emphasizes the interdisciplinary overlap. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97069 Milan Kundera: La fête de l’insignifiance; Milan Kundera, The Festival of insignificance ; ; The book-review of Milan Kundera’s last novel of, The Festival of Insignificance (French version 2014, English 2015) describes at first its plot and characters, further it analyses its structure and its types of narration, it endeavors to find its different possible meanings and values (of its form and contents, plot). In the end it attempts to interpret the total sense of its ambiguous subject of insignificance. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96978 Poetika světské lásky v hagiografickém spise o Maríi de Jesús Tomellín; The poetics of profane love in the hagiography on Maria de Jesus Tomellin ; ; The aim of this paper is to analyze different possible ways to approach the code of love in the hagiographical biography of New Spain’s nun María de Jesús Tomellín, who lived in the 16th century in Puebla de los Ángeles. Firstly, it focuses on the relation between the understanding of love in the so called nuptial mysticism and the profane amorous code, especially courtly love. After that we study possible parallels between the secular and sacred amorous realm in the hagiographical text. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96970 Svrchovanost povrchu. O distribuci smyslu v jedné literární recenzi; The sovereignty of the surface ; ; The article starts from an interpretation of the famous review of James Joyce’s Ulysses by Carl Gustav Jung called “Ulysses: A Monologue”. It focuses mainly on the comparison of the semiological assumptions of the two authors. Although both are aware of the principle of openness and fluidity of the text, it is evident, that their hypotheses, submitted to justify this view, do not have the same efficiency. The article can be also read as an attempt to articulate the so called „serial method“, i. e. the Deleuzian critique of the concept of representation from the Logic of Sense. From this point of view, the article could be considered a contribution to the poststructuralist discussion of the concept of sense. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z