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Determination of efficiency standards of testing on the CISM obstacle course
Škobrtal, Michal ; Přívětivý, Lubomír (advisor) ; Nagy, Ladislav (referee)
Author's first name and surname: Michal Škobrtal Title of master gen thesis: Determination of efficiency standards of testing on the CISM obstacle course. Supervizor: PaedDr. Lubomír PŘÍVĚTIVÝ, CSc. Presentation year: 2012 Abstract Objective: To determine efficiency standards of physical performance testing of career soldiers of Armed Forces of the Czech Republic performed on the CISM obstacle course. Methods: Standardized testing and succesive determinantion of standards were used. Equivalent-interval scale which is characterized by constant measuring unit was also used. Due to this scale parametric methods were used to determination of standards: arithmetic average, determinative deviation and median. Results: The result of this thesis is a determination of performance standards of career soldiers of Czech Armed Forces for testing purposes while using CISM obstacle course. Standards are set for both men and women categories and for purpose of professional physical performance testing. These standards are provided in two variants. The first variant is specified for type A and B units and the second variant is specified for type C units. Standards for given category and variant are additionally divided according to dress and gear which is used during testing as follows: BDU (battle dress uniform); BDU,...
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THE PROBLEM OF THE FIXITY OF TABLES: VIRGINIA WOOLF AS A NON-DUALIST AND PROCESS-ORIENTED THINKER
Krajíčková, Veronika ; Nagy, Ladislav (advisor) ; Chalupský, Petr (referee) ; Kaplický, Martin (referee)
1 Abstract This doctoral thesis focuses on the analogies between Virginia Woolf's "personal philosophy" and Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy, or in his own words "philosophy of organism." The thesis does not claim that Whitehead's thought directly influenced Woolf's fiction, rather, it makes use of a zeitgeist model. The two contemporaries shared the rejection of long-established dualisms, particularly the Cartesian mind-body dualism, the binaries of subject and object, animate and inanimate matter, the human and the nonhuman, and last but not least the individual and the community. Interested in the philosophical enquiry into the problem of reality and the visible world, Woolf redefines the notion of "things" in her fiction and adopts the processist view that objects may be defined as clusters of events, which are not separate from the perceiving subject but interrelated with it. Moreover, Woolf illustrates her interest in the natural world in most of her works and often suggests that what we normally think to be inert and lifeless matter, may, in fact, also have some proto-conscious, or proto- experiential, qualities like Whitehead's "actual occasions." The second part of the thesis focuses on Woolf's attempt to overcome one's individual identity in favour of adopting a more inclusive and...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman: novel as a palimpsest
Nagy, Ladislav
In the present work I set myself a task to interpret John Fowles's novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, probably author's most famous book. There were several reason why I chose this book: first, it was the book itself - the themes dealt with and the problems to which the book paid attention. Secondly, it was the significance of the book (and a kind of narrative strategy embraced here) for further development of British prose writing, especially for so called "middle generation" authors such as Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis Julian Barnes, Peter Ackroyd, Graham Swift and others. It was mainly because of the second reason that I decided not to interpret the novel along "existential" line which is what have been recently done by many Fowlesian critics. I did not regard the stance of the author, or the so called "authorial intention," to be something endowed with real "authority" - this approach I attempted to justify in the introduction. Instead of "authorial intention" I paid attention to various narrati ve strategies employed in the text - it is significant that one of these is the "unreliable narrator" which, I think, supports my approach in not regarding what the narrator (or the author outside his text) says as something unquestionable. In the first part of my work I thus dealt with the question whether Mr....
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Canon of Anglophone Literatures in the Czech Context
Onufer, Petr ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Hilský, Martin (referee) ; Nagy, Ladislav (referee)
English Summary The present thesis deals with the various ways in which Anglophone literatures form their canon(s) in the Czech context. In doing so, it treats literature as one inseparable whole, consisting of poetry, prose and literary criticism. The latter is not understood as auxiliary literature, but rather as a self-sufficient form that deserves equal attention to so-called "creative writing"; after all, all the three major literary forms inevitably participate in canon formation, albeit in their own respective ways. The process of canon formation takes different turns and yields different results in the original, i.e. Anglophone, milieu and in the Czech context - and the canons that thus arise differ as well. Moreover, the debate on canons is always being complicated by their essentially unstable, variable nature; by definition, the process of canon formation is unfinished and interminable. Canons are not to be viewed as the be-all and end-all of literary analysis but rather as guideposts, useful tools that stimulate further study and permanently invite questioning and revisions of themselves. In spite of this fundamental - and quite simple - purpose, the literary canon is an extremely complex and intricate concept. The complexity of its meanings and its implications is dealt with in the thesis'...
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The Country House Revisited: Variations on a Theme from Forster to Hollinghurst
Topolovská, Tereza ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Franková, Milada (referee) ; Nagy, Ladislav (referee)
This dissertation aims to provide an insight into English country house fiction by twentieth and twenty-first century authors, such as E.M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Iris Murdoch, Alan Hollinghurst, and Sarah Waters. The variety of literary depictions of the country house reflects the physical diversification of the buildings in question, from smaller variants to formerly grand residences on the brink of physical collapse. The country house is explored within the wider social and cultural contexts of the period, including contemporary architectural development. Given the exceptionally evocative and integrating properties that the influential theories of Martin Heidegger and Gaston Bachelard attribute to a house in general, it is unsurprising that the concept of the country house has inspired discussion of such a wide spectrum of topics. Its unique centring quality is echoed in the dense intertextuality prominently marking its literary representations, and enables the successful implementation of various temporal idiosyncrasies, which often set the house apart from the habitual passing of time. Within the scope of contemporary fiction, architecture and poetics of space, the country house accentuates different conceptions of dwelling. Consequently, the literary portrayals of the country house can be...
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Determination of efficiency standards of testing on the CISM obstacle course
Škobrtal, Michal ; Přívětivý, Lubomír (advisor) ; Nagy, Ladislav (referee)
Author's first name and surname: Michal Škobrtal Title of master gen thesis: Determination of efficiency standards of testing on the CISM obstacle course. Supervizor: PaedDr. Lubomír PŘÍVĚTIVÝ, CSc. Presentation year: 2012 Abstract Objective: To determine efficiency standards of physical performance testing of career soldiers of Armed Forces of the Czech Republic performed on the CISM obstacle course. Methods: Standardized testing and succesive determinantion of standards were used. Equivalent-interval scale which is characterized by constant measuring unit was also used. Due to this scale parametric methods were used to determination of standards: arithmetic average, determinative deviation and median. Results: The result of this thesis is a determination of performance standards of career soldiers of Czech Armed Forces for testing purposes while using CISM obstacle course. Standards are set for both men and women categories and for purpose of professional physical performance testing. These standards are provided in two variants. The first variant is specified for type A and B units and the second variant is specified for type C units. Standards for given category and variant are additionally divided according to dress and gear which is used during testing as follows: BDU (battle dress uniform); BDU,...
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History in the English Fiction of the Last Decades
Nagy, Ladislav ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Hilský, Martin (referee) ; Potočňáková, Magdaléna (referee)
The dissertation focuses on the contemporary British fiction discussing books that in a certain way reflect the changing perception of history and the relationship between historiography and fiction. Several thematic aspects of this reflection are examined, namely, attitudes towards the Victorian era, city, country, archive (relation between fictional narrative and historical sources - meta-textuality) and history as a "palimpsest", i.e., as a set of multiple, mutually permeable layers of text. The changing attitude to the past, which finally leads to doubts on strict division between historiography and literary fiction, is mostly discussed in books published mainly in the last thirty years, the only exception being John Fowlesʼs The French Lieutenantʼs Woman which the author of the dissertation perceives as a book of major importance for the subsequent re-evaluation of the attitude to history. Iain Sinclair, Peter Ackroyd, Alan Moore (London), Michel Faber (the Victorians), Graham Swift, Bruce Chatwin and Adam Thorpe (country), Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith (novel and history), A.S. Byatt and Julian Barnes (archive, literary heritage) are also discussed. " For the authors of historical fiction, history is, above all, a rich source of stories. These stories are told and retold, they are rediscovered and adapted for...
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The French Lieutenant's Woman: novel as a palimpsest
Nagy, Ladislav
In the present work I set myself a task to interpret John Fowles's novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, probably author's most famous book. There were several reason why I chose this book: first, it was the book itself - the themes dealt with and the problems to which the book paid attention. Secondly, it was the significance of the book (and a kind of narrative strategy embraced here) for further development of British prose writing, especially for so called "middle generation" authors such as Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis Julian Barnes, Peter Ackroyd, Graham Swift and others. It was mainly because of the second reason that I decided not to interpret the novel along "existential" line which is what have been recently done by many Fowlesian critics. I did not regard the stance of the author, or the so called "authorial intention," to be something endowed with real "authority" - this approach I attempted to justify in the introduction. Instead of "authorial intention" I paid attention to various narrati ve strategies employed in the text - it is significant that one of these is the "unreliable narrator" which, I think, supports my approach in not regarding what the narrator (or the author outside his text) says as something unquestionable. In the first part of my work I thus dealt with the question whether Mr....
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