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Narrative Strategies and Traumatic Experience in Toni Morrison's Trilogy
Müllerová, Magdalena ; Veselá, Pavla (advisor) ; Ulmanová, Hana (referee)
This thesis examines narrative strategies and the representation of trauma in Toni Morrison's trilogy consisting of Beloved, Jazz and Paradise. Morrison's novels illustrate the black experience in the US throughout history; the trilogy begins in the 1870's with Beloved and continues through 1920's in Jazz to 1970's in Paradise. The main focus of this thesis is the exploration of the narrative strategies in the connection to trauma in order to showcase how Morrison manipulates the narrative to draw attention to the unheard traumatic experiences of black people, and consequently criticises the racist master narrative. Beloved depicts the immediate impact of slavery, and the following two novels expose how the underlining traumatic effects of slavery are reproduced long after its abolishment. Selected theoretical approaches to narrative and trauma are introduced in the first chapter. Mieke Bal's approach to narrative, combined with Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s African- American literary theory described in The Signifying Monkey, provides the basis for the analysis of the use of voice, narrative structure, retroversion, and repetition in the trilogy. The postcolonial view of trauma, informed mostly by Judith L. Herman's Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Abuse to Political Terror, is...
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Evolution of the Approach to Death: John Updike's Novels of the 1960s
Müllerová, Magdalena ; Ulmanová, Hana (advisor) ; Delbos, Stephan (referee)
This thesis explores the approach to death in the novels of John Updike published in the 1960's, namely Rabbit Run, The Centaur and Couples. The importance of death in Updike's prose is universally acknowledged, but most critical works are concerned with other themes. The main focus of this thesis is the development of the approach to death of the main characters in the aforementioned novels as well as the overall change of Updike's approach to death over the three novels. The first chapter presents the theoretical background for two perspectives on death: death in Christian teachings and the theory of life and death drives by Sigmund Freud. Christianity is an important aspect of Updike's prose, not only because he is Christian himself, but the majority of his focal characters either are Christian or share Christian values. Traditional Christian notions are expanded upon by the concept of The American Religion, introduced by Harold Bloom in The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation. The selection of Freud's theory is based on the close connection between sex and death in the novels, which is in accordance with the theory explained in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. In the following three chapters, the individual novels are analysed. Each chapter examines the initial position...
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Volunteering in theater
Svobodová, Pavlína ; JEŽEK, Vlastimil (advisor) ; MÜLLEROVÁ, Magdalena (referee)
The bachelor thesis Volunteering in the theater is focused on possibilities of engaging volunteers to the Czech theaters. As a volunteer is meant a person, who does a certain activity/work without a salary. The theoretical part is focused on the terminology of the topic and volunteering terms of law in the Czech Republic. The practical part shows particular steps of engaging volunteers including advantages and disadvantages of volunteering in theater ambience, it also introduces ways and tools to count the value of volunteers. In the last part of this thesis there is a description of cooperating volunteers with the Studio Hrdinů. The text is enriched with data which have been got from the survey made with volunteers from the Studio Hrdinů.
The goal of this thesis is to highlight the importance of volunteering. The content of this thesis is an inspiring source of information for theaters, which are interested in cooperating with volunteers.
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