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Knihovnička úderníků: Semiotic Analysis, Narrative Strategies, Context, Kitsch
Kaňka, Tomáš ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Machek, Jakub (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyse the Knihovnička úderníků series published between 1949 and 1956 by the Práce publishing house. The series comprised of 69 publications (including professional literary reportages and biographies) about shock-workers, the fifties "symbolic heroes". Given the fact that the books are not well-known, the thesis deals with the texts from different points of view to provide an overview of the series. The approach has been predominantly synchronic with a few exceptions, e.g. contextualizing the series at the beginning of the thesis. Considering the high number of the texts, the author finds it useful to delimit main functions of the texts and to find their common features. One of the main goals of the thesis is to perform a semiotic analysis of myths, emblems and rituals which occur in the works and which socialistic cultural mythology is comprised of. In this chapter Vladimír Macura's methodological approach is being used. The texts are also analysed in terms of composition as well as narrative strategies with focus on (pseudo-)autobiography. The last part of the thesis deals with kitsch. Despite the fact that kitsch was banned by the authorities, it has been found that officially approved ideological works used kitsch to some extent as well. Keywords: Czech...
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