In recent years, entrepreneurship studies scholars have begun studying entrepreneurship from a process-oriented philosophy and with an interest in the prosaic, everyday practices of entrepreneurs. In keeping with these "new movement" approaches, I have tried to "catch" entrepreneurship as it is happening within the field of private investigations. An in-depth, two-year field study of private investigators engaged in the entwined practices of investigating and entrepreneuring was conducted. Methodologically, I shadowed five private investigators and interviewed an additional 25. Because shadowing is an emergent methodology, an in-depth discussion of conducting and writing shadowing research is provided. As noted in this discussion, it is important that writing remain primarily descriptive yet linked to dominant contemporary discourses. Consequently, an overview of dominant narrative themes in popular and academic discourses about private investigating and entrepreneurship are included. Based on the framework of this methodology, dominant narrative themes, and field notes, various culturally-situated accounts of private investigator practices are offered. The findings of this research project suggest that private investigators use various rhetorical and practical strategies to successfully and simultaneously complete investigative and business-related tasks, such as "planting suspicions," using gender and race to strategically position themselves in relation to others in opportunistic ways, and incorporating contemporary technology into their work routines. Drawing on actor-network-theory, I argue that opportunities are enacted through a series of taken-for-granted and everyday interactions among subjects and objects. This research privileges descriptive accounts over theory-building. However, the descriptive accounts of the practices of subjects and objects suggest pragmatic solutions for private investigators to create and manage entrepreneurial opportunities. For example, I propose that private investigators should collectively engage in practices that further professionalize their field. Such professionalizing activities would include, among other things, engaging in knowledge accumulation through academic and professional research activities and professional association public relations campaigns. Insights are also provided regarding the role of rhetoric and technology in opportunity creation and destruction. Readers interested in organization communication and theory will find many of the descriptions to be empirically rich examples of ethno-methods used by actors in highly institutionalized contexts. Similarly, these scholars may also find the descriptions to validate recent arguments regarding organizing as "hybridized actions" (or action nets) occurring in multiple spaces, places, and times. The examples herein demonstrate the usefulness of shadowing as an approach to understanding organizing practices, especially in fields where actors are always "on the move." Readers interested in private investigating will find many of the examples rich in techniques that will enhance profitability. Finally, readers interested in entrepreneurship studies will undoubtedly find many novel potential research projects that are embedded in the various thick descriptions throughout the document.

A presente dissertação discute dois conceitos centrais da Estética de Hegel: o estado universal do mundo heróico e o prosaico. Estes dois conceitos remetem a determinações e realidades históricas diferenciadas. De um lado, no estado do mundo heróico, à autonomia individual do herói, o qual tem sua ação em unidade imediata com o universal, o divino. Para Hegel este é o estado vindicado pelo ideal artístico. De outro lado, os estados prosaicos, nos quais a ação individual da pessoa se encontra mediada pelas instituições do Estado, mediação cuja natureza exige justamente uma forma de exposição capaz de captar tais mediações, a filosofia. A partir destes conceitos, situados em sua relação com a arte enquanto exposição absoluta da verdade do espírito, se busca aqui tematizar o lugar da experiência grega na leitura sistemática de Hegel, articulando dois aspectos que aparecem como fundamentais em sua Estética, a saber: a experiência grega como coincidente com o conceito de clássico, isto é, como lugar da verdadeira expressão do belo; e ao mesmo tempo, esta expressão bela, tal como pensada por Hegel, como um momento pouco desenvolvido da exposição absoluta do espírito. O índice deste desenvolvimento em Hegel é a autoconsciência da liberdade do espírito e por isso, aos atuais estados prosaicos corresponde, por sua vez, a mais alta realização da liberdade no mundo moderno. Esta realização é mais verdadeira porque mais concreta e está relacionada à exposição absoluta de si do espírito por meio do conceito, determinando deste modo o esgotamento da forma artística enquanto dotada de valor absoluto de verdade nos atuais estados prosaicos. / The present dissertation discusses two central concepts of Hegel´s Aesthetics: the universal state of heroic world and the prosaic. These two concepts refer to the determinations and different historical realities. On one hand, in the state of heroic world, upon individual autonomy of hero. Who has your action in direct unit with the universal, the holy. To Hegel this is the state which is vindicated by the artistic ideal. On the other hand, the prosaic states, where the person\' s individual action is mediated by the state institutions, mediation in which nature just claim one way of exposition able to catch those mediations, the philosophy. From these concepts, located in their relationship with the art like the absolute exposition ofthe spirit truth, the search here is to render problematic the place of the Greek experience inthe systematic reading of Hegel, articulating two aspects which appear like mains in bis Aesthetics, that means: the Greek experience like coincident of the classical concept, that is, like the place of the true expression of the beautifulness; and at its time, this beautiful expression, like it was though by Hegel, like one moment not so developed of absolute exposition of spirit. The table of this development in Hegel is the auto conscience of the liberty of spirit and for that reasons, to the present prosaic states is according, at the same time, to the highest accomplishment of liberty in the modero world. This accomplishment is the truest because it is the conc rete and it is related to the absolute exposition of the spirit itself by the concrete, determining this way the weakness of the artistic form while gifted of absolute value of truth the present prosaic states.

A presente dissertação discute dois conceitos centrais da Estética de Hegel: o estado universal do mundo heróico e o prosaico. Estes dois conceitos remetem a determinações e realidades históricas diferenciadas. De um lado, no estado do mundo heróico, à autonomia individual do herói, o qual tem sua ação em unidade imediata com o universal, o divino. Para Hegel este é o estado vindicado pelo ideal artístico. De outro lado, os estados prosaicos, nos quais a ação individual da pessoa se encontra mediada pelas instituições do Estado, mediação cuja natureza exige justamente uma forma de exposição capaz de captar tais mediações, a filosofia. A partir destes conceitos, situados em sua relação com a arte enquanto exposição absoluta da verdade do espírito, se busca aqui tematizar o lugar da experiência grega na leitura sistemática de Hegel, articulando dois aspectos que aparecem como fundamentais em sua Estética, a saber: a experiência grega como coincidente com o conceito de clássico, isto é, como lugar da verdadeira expressão do belo; e ao mesmo tempo, esta expressão bela, tal como pensada por Hegel, como um momento pouco desenvolvido da exposição absoluta do espírito. O índice deste desenvolvimento em Hegel é a autoconsciência da liberdade do espírito e por isso, aos atuais estados prosaicos corresponde, por sua vez, a mais alta realização da liberdade no mundo moderno. Esta realização é mais verdadeira porque mais concreta e está relacionada à exposição absoluta de si do espírito por meio do conceito, determinando deste modo o esgotamento da forma artística enquanto dotada de valor absoluto de verdade nos atuais estados prosaicos. / The present dissertation discusses two central concepts of Hegel´s Aesthetics: the universal state of heroic world and the prosaic. These two concepts refer to the determinations and different historical realities. On one hand, in the state of heroic world, upon individual autonomy of hero. Who has your action in direct unit with the universal, the holy. To Hegel this is the state which is vindicated by the artistic ideal. On the other hand, the prosaic states, where the person\' s individual action is mediated by the state institutions, mediation in which nature just claim one way of exposition able to catch those mediations, the philosophy. From these concepts, located in their relationship with the art like the absolute exposition ofthe spirit truth, the search here is to render problematic the place of the Greek experience inthe systematic reading of Hegel, articulating two aspects which appear like mains in bis Aesthetics, that means: the Greek experience like coincident of the classical concept, that is, like the place of the true expression of the beautifulness; and at its time, this beautiful expression, like it was though by Hegel, like one moment not so developed of absolute exposition of spirit. The table of this development in Hegel is the auto conscience of the liberty of spirit and for that reasons, to the present prosaic states is according, at the same time, to the highest accomplishment of liberty in the modero world. This accomplishment is the truest because it is the conc rete and it is related to the absolute exposition of the spirit itself by the concrete, determining this way the weakness of the artistic form while gifted of absolute value of truth the present prosaic states.

Thesis is focused on motifs of taboo behavior in Czech prosaic folklore. The objective of this work was to depict how the motifs participate in folktales and legends, compare these motifs, describe their change in time and space and possible overlaps into to social reality. In the thesis is used as a method the textological analysis of narrative motifs in the primary sources of folklore narratives from the mid 19th century to the present. In summary are presented possible function of taboo in folklore narratives, relation of folklore and social reality based on taboo and variations in understanting a taboo phenomen in time.

(English) Ph.D. Thesis Contemporary Legend and Rumour in the Czech Republic. Origin, Genesis and Social and Cultural Function of Domestic Urban Folklore in International Context Petr Janeček Presented study analyzes character, origin, genesis and social and cultural functions of specific type of prosaic oral narratives transmitted in contemporary oral and non-oral tradition on territory of the Czech Republic. Main attention is given to realistic narratives with primary informative and entertaining function, which are usually presented by their tellers as at least potentially real story or information about actual, genuine happenings of both local and social importance, but whose variants, versions and editions simultaneously circulate over wider geographical and temporary horizon. Because of that, these narratives are labelled by international folkloristics as folklore genres of "contemporary legend" and "rumour". After overview and critical analysis of history of international studies of these two genre concepts, their terminology and genre (both formal and thematic) characteristics in international and Czech folkloristics are presented, as well as relationship of these genres to similar contemporary folklore forms, especially gossip, conspiracy theories, anecdotes and jokes, demonological...

Individually Published Czech Festive and Occasional Preachings of the End of the 17th and the First Two Thirds of the 18th Century Miloš Sládek The thesis concentrates on the area of festive and occasional homiletics in Bohemia after the Battle of White Mountain. Since the end of the 17th century, homiletics had represented the Czech leading literary genre with extraordinary influence on the masses. This influence was even strenghtened when printed preachings gradually became popular reading. The main focus of the thesis is on the questions of preparation of preaching, problematics of preaching handbooks, relationship of a preacher and his listeners, as well as the area of Classicist and conceptual preaching. The Baroque concept is described in connections with the aspect of growing author's self-esteem at that time. Editions of chosen sixteen preachings with introductions are added to demonstrate (or relativise) the conclusions of the first part of the thesis. Festive preaching in Bohemia was essentially influenced by legends, German Catholic preaching and myths and folk-tales. Emphasis on Christian morality is typical for Sunday preaching, however, it also appears in festive preachings. The influence of festive and occasional preaching of the end of the 17th and the first half of the 18th century on...

The thesis presents a typology of characters in short prosaic works of Jaroslav Durych. In the introduction the readers get acquainted with contemporary approaches of the theory of literature towards the characters and with the ways to make typologies of characters. The author's opinions about art and man are quoted too because Durych's fiction is influenced by his artistic and religious opinions. Next, Durych's prosaic works are characterised in relation to trends in literature. Information about previous works concerning characters in prosaic works of Jaroslav Durych is also given in the introduction. The central part of the thesis is focused on the analysis of characters in short prosaic works. Both female and male characters are analysed by means of the same criteria: character-definition v. character-hypothesis, character-subject v. character- object, name, appearance, soul, death, love to God and their human partner. Within each section, e.g. Appearance, short prosaic works are analysed in chronological order to show how the characters were altered and how they were influenced by various trends in literature, etc. Eventually, differences between female and male characters are named, and two basic types of female characters and two basic types of male characters which can be found in Durych's...

This thesis focuses on the prosaic writing of Jaroslav Vrchlický. In the first part it monitors an extension of the reception in these novels (it analyzes their editions with the help of the database Caslin). It also observes character of the period reception from the first publication of the corresponding titles up to the year 1918 (there is a support of the database Retrobi and Lexikon české literatury). The second part of the thesis analyzes the Vrchlický's novels according to methods of naratology and literary thematology. The third part of this writing focuses on a genre and a themed characteristic of the Vrchlický's novels in the context of that period.