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The Literary Construction of Memory and Reminiscence in Egon Hostovský's Work
Zetová, Marie ; Češka, Jakub (advisor) ; Fulka, Josef (referee)
The thesis attempts to present a comparative reading of selected works by Egon Hostovský with an emphasis on the poetics associated with the themes of memory and recollection. Attention is focused mainly on the role that the memory of the protagonists plays in the constitution of the narrating subject and other characters of the literary piece, on the relationship between memories and fiction (i. e. memory and imagination) and on the origin and function of sentimental or nostalgic motives that emerge in this context. The core of the thesis consists of reading Hostovský's works written between 1930s and 1940s. Key words: Egon Hostovský, memory, recollection, narrative identity, fiction, nostalgia
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Attribution of the causes for the personal success of individuals working in a corporate enviroment
Hehejíková, Alica ; Heider, David (advisor) ; Viktorová, Ida (referee)
1 ABSTRACT The diploma thesis deals with one's own understanding of the career success of individuals successful in business. Its aim is to describe the causal attributions of individuals to success factors and to place them in a simplified framework of the narrative identity of success to evaluate trends in causal attributions at the individual level. In the theoretical part, the work describes the issues of career and success, while providing insight into various definitions and approaches. It also discusses causal attributions and attributional tendencies in human perception. After that, it explains the concept of narrative identity and its development. The practical part describes qualitative research, which includes data in the form of four unstructured interviews with career-successful individuals. Data analysis was inspired by selected principles of grounded theory and narrative analysis. The analysis of the data showed a unique link between the causal attributes of individuals and the development of the narrative identity of their success. The most important factor of success was diligence/hard working as sacrificing time for other activities and fascination with the topic. Furthermore, the qualities acquired during life and the influence of the individual's social world came to the fore. It turned...
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Construction of Professional Identity of a Coach. Narrative point of view.
Kubátová, Jitka ; Heider, David (advisor) ; Viktorová, Ida (referee)
Diploma thesis entitled "Construction of Professional Identity of a Coach. Narrative point of View." aimed to explore and describe the process of construction of professional identity in professional coaches. The first section of the theoretical part is devoted to the topic of identity. Identity is defined from a psychological and philosophical point of view, and psychological theories of identity development are introduced. Furthermore, professional identity is presented as a specific form of identity of an individual, which relates to their professional field, and recent research studies concerning professional identity are presented. At the end of this part, the topic of the crisis of professional identity and the concept of self - efficacy, which is related to the area of professional identity, are discussed. The second section of the theoretical part describes the contemporary image of coaching in the Czech Republic, its professional framework, and a brief history of the coaching method. Subsequently, the key competencies of a professional coach, differences from related disciplines, the context of coaching and psychology and ethics in coaching are described. The empirical part presents our own research, which was motivated by an effort to understand how the coach's professional identity is...
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The possibilities of using a story in a correlation at work with people traumatized by brain injury
Pechmanová, Lucie ; Matoušek, Oldřich (advisor) ; Vodáčková, Daniela (referee)
This thesis contains two parts, theoretical one and practical one. The first part is mostly about a theoretical definition. It is mainly focused on following terms: story, life story, narrative approach, trauma, acquired disablement. Attention is paid to a target group (people with a brain trauma), they are also important in the practical part later. The thesis mentions the most frequent occasions of a brain injury/damage and their potencial consequences. Each information is connected with the main topic of this thesis. The organisation, where stories were used as a part of Social Therapy Workshop, is briefly introduced at the end of the first part. In the practical part some findings are devolved into a profession. The stories, which were collected during the direct work with clients of Social Therapy Workshop, are the most significant texts of this part. There is a space for client's particular life stories, they are analyzed than. The personal topic of each client is highlighted and the thesis provides various interpretations. The summary of the whole cooperation is situated at the end of this part. It includes links to process of individual consultations and individual plan fulfilment. The final evaluation was done thru the reflexion of reached clients goals, which were defined beforehand. It...
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(Re)Construction of the subjectivity and time in the autobiography
Soukupová, Klára ; Kubíček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
This study deals with some of the recent theory of autobiography. Methodologically, it is based on literary narratology but, as part of interdisciplinary research, it also draws on insights provided by philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science. It shows that an autobiography does not reflect an author's identity but helps construct it by narrative means. As far as the truthfulness of an autobiography is concerned, the study takes into account the issues of autobiographical memory and its reliability; it also deals with collective memory in the context of genre norms. Drawing on positioning theory, the study offers a conception of autobiography as a formally and narratively complete work that, however, reflects the current situation and position of the author who is writing it. This master's thesis demonstrates its suggestions using autobiographical texts from Czech as well as world literatures. Keywords autobiography, memory, narrative identity, referentiality, positioning theory
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Memory, narrative and politics
Reichelová, Tereza ; Slačálek, Ondřej (advisor) ; Barša, Pavel (referee)
In this paper I will analyze contemporary politics of memory on the basis of their temporal orientation face to face to the end of history. I will follow on the one hand theories of perception of time in regards of social dimension of an agent's identity of Henri Bergson and Jean-Paul Sartre applied on Pierre Nora's work, and on the other hand I will try to join those philosophical concepts with Ricouer's and MacIntyre's narrative approach. This theoretical base will subsequently allow me to elaborate on political temporality oriented to the sacred eternity, to the future or to the past and confront it with the hypothesis of the end of history as conceptualized by Francis Fukuyama. Politics of memory gains in this classification a peculiar status - being oriented either towards the past denying the end of history, or oriented towards diffused individualized future. The second type of politics of memory aims to heal society from history, still present in painful memory, and support establishing of post-historic reality. Paradoxically, I will argue, both types of politics of memory allow history in Fukuyma's sense to pass the threshold.
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Thinking narratively: qualitative research "on the road"
Čermák, Ivo
The role of narrativity in the process of qualitative research is briefly described in the paper. In narrative research, mathodological canons of representativness, method, and expert position in research are abandoned, validity is replaced by concept of finding trustworthiness, and sharing, participative-dialogical interpretation and meaning re-construction are emphasized. The story is considered a basis and also an object of narrative research. Stories are interpretations of life and an individual became an autobiographic narrativity. Story is a tool of identity construction and also reflection and can be labelled as a narrative identity. The aim of narrative research lies in good-story construction, which has not to be contradictory to the searching of truth. Narrative research is a way toward narrative knowing. Continuous communication with different versions of human research is a basic principle of narrative methodology and protection against rigidity.
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