Literature as a medium of memory in the Hlučín region at the example of writings of Jana Schlossarková

of the thesis "Literature as a medium of memory in the Hlučín region at the example of writings of Jana Schlossarková"; solver Michaela Kosařová Writings of Jana Schlossarková (*1941) are one of the important media of collective memory of the Hlučín area. The aim of this thesis is to analyse them. Her work is characterized in the main part of the thesis with the aid of the theories of collective memory and its media according to Maurice Halbwachs, Jan and Aleida Assmann, Astrid Erll and others. The common acknowledged theories are implemented in Jana Schlossarková's writings using predominantly the sample of the last published titles "Co na Prajzske se stalo" and "Co na Prajzske se povědalo". These two books include most of the previously published writings of the author. I analysed the contents, the style and the impact of the author's writing on the preservation and archiving of the specific local memory. The specific textual level is examined in the poem "Jak to s nami bylo". The key relevant paradigms for this memory and identity are shown on this sample. Additional information on the Hlučín region and its memory, the tendencies of maintaining this memory and the literature contributing to capture the memory, complement the core of this thesis. Jana Schlossarková's biography is elaborated. A..