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A Comparative Study of the Narrative Techniques in Midnight s Children and The God of Small Things. (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)The aim of this study has been to paint a picture of how Norwegian learners of English as a foreign language respond to compliments when communicating in English, in comparison to a group of native American English speakers. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)This thesis explores the topic of childhood substance abuse from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century and its representation in Victorian and Edwardian children´s literature. The two primary texts analyzed within ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)The main focus of this thesis is to discuss how the comics of Joe Sacco can enable a connection between the reader and the distant sufferer we encounter in his work. I will do so by analyzing three different aspects of his ...
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The Connection Between Past and Present: Race and Identity in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Nella Larsen’s PassingBegrenset tilgang (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)This thesis explores the concepts of race, history, and identity in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Nella Larsen’s Passing. With the central focus on African American literature, U.S. history and the African American race, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)In this thesis, I have attempted to analyze conscience as an ethical phenomenon in Shakespeare’s Richard III and Macbeth. The two plays have often been compared due to many similarities in terms of plot, characters and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)The aim of this thesis is to explore the ways in which the meanings of history, identity, and reality are constructed in Don DeLillo’s Libra and Mao II. While these novels do not deny the existence of “the real”, they ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)Within the framework of the present study, simile, which is a special kind of metaphor, is investigated both on the syntactic and conceptual levels. The starting point of the research are two English simile frames: "like ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)The focus of the present corpus-based investigation is to analyze the degree of mutual correspondence in bidirectional translations of the English preposition from and its Norwegian counterpart fra. Although the prepositions ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)This master’s thesis is a corpus-based investigation of an atypical progressive construction which has been characterized as a fairly recent phenomenon in the English language. The construction in question is used as a ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)The present thesis is a corpus-based contrastive study. It examines the cognate verbs set and sette in English and Norwegian fiction original texts and their translations. The cognates set and sette are both relatively ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)This thesis observes the use of the prototypically functioning impersonal and objective rhetorical structure of extraposition in a corpus-based study of Norwegian leaners of English. Both contrastive and contrastive ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)The present thesis is a corpus-based study of the modal verb shall in present-day English. The study is an attempt to detect potential interdependence between the modal meanings of shall and the lexical verbs combining ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
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A Corpus-Stylistic Analysis of Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" and Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)This master’s thesis presents a corpus-stylistic analysis of Margaret Mitchell’s novel "Gone with the Wind" and Ernest Hemingway’s novel "A Farewell to Arms". The analysis draws on a corpus stylistic approach, outlined by ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)This study looks at how Ursula K. Le Guin’s utopian fiction, represented by The Dispossessed (1974) and Always Coming Home (1985) uses Daoism to challenge the traditions of the genre of utopian literature and to present ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)This thesis explores whether young Protestant women in Northern Ireland are facing a crisis of identity. The personal perceptions of identity for young female Protestants in Belfast, born immediately before or after the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)In this thesis, I aim to investigate the interlanguage produced by Brazilian learners of L2 English at two different proficiency levels, looking for potential L1 transfer of politeness strategies. To fundament the investigation ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)In this thesis I use Carl Jung’s analytical psychology to examine three stories by H.P. Lovecraft. In my discussion of The Call of Cthulhu, I suggest that the figure of Cthulhu be read as a symbol of the objective shadow. ...