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Shame and Belonging in the Fiction of Maeve Brennan
Hutková, Klára ; Wallace, Clare (advisor) ; Pilný, Ondřej (referee)
Thesis Abstract This thesis analyses the fiction of the twentieth-century Irish-American author Maeve Brennan through the lens of shame. All of Brennan's published writing has been included: her short stories and magazine contributions collected in The Long Winded Lady, The Springs of Affection, and The Rose Garden, as well as her novella The Visitor. Shame has recently been embraced in academia as a subject of research, as well as an interpretative key for literary analysis. The thesis examines shame in order to map out social and psychological experience of belonging, and the lack thereof, in Brennan's fiction, as both the threat and the reality of isolation, stemming from social rejection, occur as its prominent themes. These elements are also shown as connected to the issues of self-determination and identity, as Brennan's characters partly embrace and partly oppose social normativity. As some of their individual needs, especially those of women, are add odds with social expectations, they are effectively choosing between social inclusion on the one hand, and embracing their personal difference. As transgressions of social norms come with varying degrees of shame, the emotion is omnipresent in the highly regulated, and surveilled, environments that Brennan depicts. As the affect itself causes further...
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Design interiérového prvku pro popínavé rostliny
Huťková, Klára
This dissertation deals with a design of an interior object for creeping plants which is going to be a dividing object of space. The theoretical part explains the problematics of growing plants in interiors, their demands and factors of growing, as well as trends and matters of interests. The thesis is focused on creeping plants, their characteristics, employment, and requirements of supporting constructions. In the thesis, there is also included the problematics of dividing elements from the point of view of creeping plants employment in interiors. The practical part of the thesis was written based on the facts in the theoretical part and on the research, it deals with the actual design of the object for creeping plants, its employment in a particular interior and a choice of a suitable plant and substrate. The thesis is completed by a manufacturing documentation of a prototype.
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