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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)In this thesis I have studied, through textual analysis, several ways in which the Canadian author Margaret Atwood experiments with the short story form. The approaches I have chosen are, firstly, to analyse some of her ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)The thesis aims to explore the plotting of six mystery- and crime-thrillers. The texts I have chosen are classics from an increasingly prestigious era of our modern narrative history; the novels are hardboiled and the ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)This thesis deals with some of Allen Ginsberg's most important poems as expressions of his political thought. I have wanted to explore Ginsberg's political commitment as expressed in his poetry, since it is already well ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Summary This study explores how the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 1996, filmed by David Fincher in 1999, treats the themes of identity and religion in an American postmodern cultural context. Fight ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)This paper has tried to find out what impact the Christian Right has had on politics in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, and where it stands at the beginning of a new century. The main object is to increase the ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)This thesis aims to compare and discuss the male fictional characters of two female authors of the Georgian and Regency periods respectively, Fanny Burney and Jane Austen. As a background, I have surveyed briefly the climate ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne was published in five instalments between 1760 and 1767. The book was an immediate success but was seen as controversial for a long time due to the thorough way in which it flouts the ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)We live in a world where the borders between nations and continents in many ways have become less significant. International co-operation has become a necessity, both in connection with political issues and in international ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)The thesis is about the interrelation of temporal characteristics and narrative technique in the novel The French Lieutenant s Woman, written by the British writer John Fowles in the 1960s. I divide time in the novel into ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)This thesis discusses Beryl Bainbridge s historical novels The Birthday Boys and Every Man for Himself. The first novel concerns itself with Captain Scott s fatal South Pole expedition and the latter with the sinking of ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby seen through two different forms of art - literature and film (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)This thesis investigates the close connection between film and literature. It analysis three pieces of work - the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and two of its adaptations, one from 1974 directed by Jack ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)This thesis investigates the supposedly new variety of English, Estuary English (EE). It discusses how changes in British society influence the language in general and how these sociolinguistic correlations are relevant ...
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Voyages in the Dark : The Interaction of Money, Sexuality, and Identity in the Novels of Jean Rhys (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)This thesis analyzes and discusses Jean Rhys s five novels: Quartet (1928), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930), Voyage in the Dark (1934), Good Morning, Midnight (1939), and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). I have explored the ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)The main themes of Paul Auster s The New York Trilogy and The Book of Illusions are identity and quest for meaning. I have applied theories by Giddens, MacIntyre, Eco, and Kermode, to show the importance of narrative ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)How is a writer s personality reflected in his work? In Ernest Hemingway s case, many critics and scholars believe that he used his writing partly as a therapeutic healing of his unstable psyche and his vulnerable self-esteem. ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)"Fantasy Literature Visiting the Faerie Realm" is a thesis concerning the fantastic aspects of fantasy literature and the way such novels can be interpreted without being seen as allegorical. A brief history of fantastic ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)This thesis discusses similarities and differences presented in four film adaptations of Hamlet in order to show how film and fiction relate to each other and to show how directors interpret the play. Further, I consider ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)In 1532, William Thynne printed the first edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer. It was also the first time his astronomical prose text, A Treatise on the Astrolabe, appeared in print. In his treatise, Chaucer ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)Victimisation Metaphors in Margaret Atwood s novel Surfacing by Berit Vike Metaphors have long ceased to be regarded as purely linguistic expressions, and today metaphors are also a conceptual phenomenon, bridging language ...
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Dealing With Mystery : Imagery in The Violent Bear It Away and Selected Stories by Flannery O'Connor (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)This thesis is an attempt to categorise and examine the most important imagery in Flannery O Connor s novel The Violent Bear It Away (1960), and in six selected short stories from her collections A Good Man Is Hard to Find ...