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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)A very particular, literarily interpretative analysis of the Narrator figure in Christopher Isherwood’s The Berlin Novels, countering the hitherto overly one-sidedly biographical indulgence by critics and exploring instead ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)Few writers have captured the imagination of their own time, spawning so much criticism, gossip and mythologizing, as Oscar Wilde did. Wilde’s late Victorian era was a time of lively debate on art, gender and sexuality. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)Den første delen av denne oppgaven består av oversettelser av Ambrose Bierces noveller ”A Horseman In The Sky”, ”An Occurrance At Owl Creek Bridge” og ”Parker Adderson, Philosopher”. Så følger en kommentardel hvor jeg ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)The aim of the thesis is to show how a culture of emigration developed in Fåberg and Lillehammer in the 19th century. In the early phase of emigration people often regarded America with scepticism, but they were also curious ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)This thesis presents a twofold investigation of the use of Americanisms in the lexis of spoken British English where both the diachronic and synchronic aspect of Americanisation is examined. Previous research has noted an ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)The thesis consists of two parts, a theoretical and an analysis part. Part 1 discusses the idea of intensification, focusing on five English amplifiers: absolutely, completely, entirely, perfectly, and totally. A few ideas ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)I chose to work with four films by director Frank Capra because of his fascinating portrayals of American society and values. The thematic focus of my thesis was his portrayal of the notion of the individual and the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)Drawing on data from the two corpora LINDSEI-NO and LOCNEC, this project examines and compares the three discourse markers 'like', 'well' and 'you know' as spoken by Norwegian advanced learners of English (NLEs) and British ...
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Androgyny as a necessity: art, creativity and the interpretation of masculinity in Virginia Woolf’s novels To the Lighthouse and OrlandoRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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The angel, the rebel and the awakening : representations of women in four texts by Tennyson, Rossetti and EgertonRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)This thesis explores representations of woman in four selected texts: Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’ (1842), Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’ (1862), and George Egerton’s ‘The Spell of the White Elf’ and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2004)This thesis investigates Angela Carter's novel Nights at the Circus (1984). My overall aim is to analyze the novel by putting stress on genre, narrative, characters, and characterization functioning as separate units and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)This thesis analyses how animated movies are ideal tools for starting conversations with children about feelings of loss, and how these movies can supply children with coping mechanisms for dealing with these types of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)This thesis investigates the figure of ‘the human’ in the age of the Anthropocene, as depicted in two Science Fiction Fantasy (SFF) trilogies. Exploring Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy (also known as Lilith’s Brood) ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)Denne masteroppgaven er en corpusbasert undersøkelse av frekvens og forekomst av verb som vanligvis ikke brukes i 'the progressive aspect'. To corpus er benyttet, The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) og Time ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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Appraisal theory : employment of appraisal elements across samples from different genresRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)The aim of this thesis is to investigate how appraisal is used in public discourse. I look at the frequency of appraisal elements in four texts from different genres, and I try to say something about the effect these ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)The purpose of this thesis is to conduct an academic analysis of two television adaptations of the Arthurian Legend, specifically Starz Camelot and BBC s Merlin, with the goal of discovering whether or not they are worthy ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)Rap music has been one of the dominant genres on the charts over the last few years, and Hip Hop imagery has become a part of popular culture. It is not unusual for trends, especially in fashion, to be inspired by subcultures, ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)This thesis is an attempt to discuss a range of interpretations of Joseph Conrad s short novel Heart of Darkness by linking them to the complex meaning of two of the text s main metaphors, light and darkness . Race is ...