Chuck Palahniuk and the Unspoken

• Název práce v češtině: Chuck Palahniuk a nevyřčené
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Chuck Palahniuk and the Unspoken
• Klíčová slova: Palahniuk|nevyřčené|ideologie
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Palahniuk|unsaid|ideology
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2019/2020
• Typ práce: diplomová práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK)
• Vedoucí / školitel: David Lee Robbins, Ph.D.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd.
• Datum přihlášení: 27.05.2020
• Datum zadání: 27.05.2020
• Schválení administrátorem: zatím neschvalováno
• Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: 19.06.2020
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 28.01.2021 11:00
• Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: ne
• Oponenti: PhDr. Hana Ulmanová, Ph.D.

Zásady pro vypracování

There are many aspects of life that is often left non-vocalized, unacknowledged. As Pierre Macherey suggests, a text is no different and tends to tells us more with the unspoken when the speech is over, when there is no more left that it can say.^[1] The spoken and the unspoken cannot exist without one another and one can attract attention to the other. In Chuck Palahniuk’s novels the most disturbing settings, events or habits are nothing more than the everyday unspoken, which is built up and exaggerated to extreme. While he flaunts the faults of our society in such an abundant way, he refrains from revealing the core of his criticism through directly spoken words. His violent, appalling, detestable depictions affect the reader on a primitive level and is successful in stimulating a gut feeling but he often choses to express his main argument, his ideology in a much silent discourse.
In my thesis, I wish to explore the ways Chuck Palahniuk expresses his ideology further and try to analyze said ideology. One of the things that is particularly interesting to me is the way he combines many contemporary issues and deals with isolation, addiction, culture, identity, recognition and self-identification; all in a silent chaos. I also want to involve how the spoken can divert the attention of the reader from the visible written word and direct it to the unspoken. Palahniuk may talk for pages about how to make a homemade dynamite, all the while leaving his reader to think over and consider the results as well as the reasons of making said dynamite. Or most of Tyler Durden’s critical statements are coarse, somewhat hollow and overused, yet his seemingly unimportant statements are secretly stuffed with meaning and material for further discussion.
In my attempt to explain and expand the topics above, I plan to focus on three of Chuck Palahniuk’s works; Fight Club, Damned and Survivor. Although these three works may seem quite different than each other at the first glance, I believe they are united in means of reflecting Palahniuk’s dedication and attention to the unspoken.

Seznam odborné literatury

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