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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)This thesis explores issues and processes of identity in three pieces of James Baldwin’s fiction: “Going to Meet the Man” (1965), Giovanni’s Room (1956), and Another Country (1962). The point of departure is Baldwin’s ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)The present master’s thesis is an account of the semantic development of the two modal verbs CAN and MUST in the history of the English language. They were investigated through the use of the Helsinki Corpus of English ...
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Can you get into trouble for something you did not say? Case studies of potentially offensive speechRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)There are numerous ways to get into trouble and there are numerous types of trouble to get into. In this thesis I explore if you can get into trouble for something you did not say, and if so, how? I investigate how the ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)In this thesis I provide an analysis of the representation of women in the works of Thomas Hardy, with special focus on the female characters in Tess of the d Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1895). The main focus ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)In this thesis I have examined a plague treatise in a largely unnoticed manuscript in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, MS 261. The text is on ff. 9v-19 and belongs to the so-called "Canutus" group of plague tracts. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Based on the Government and Binding Theory of generative grammar where both Case Theory and Theta Theory require every referential expression to have abstract Case and a thematic role, this study considers the impact of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)This thesis explores nonhuman landscapes in two works of contemporary nature writing, i.e. Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams (1986). A close reading of the texts vis-à-vis ...
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Causality in a cross-linguistic perspective : So, therefore, and thus versus så, derfor, and således (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)This thesis involves a corpus-based cross-linguistic examination of one aspect of the overt expression of causality, comparing and contrasting the uses of six conjuncts of result in two languages. The actual lexemes in the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
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Characterization of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay in Virginia Woolf s To the lighthouse (1927) and Colin Gregg s To the lighthouse (1983)Restricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)This thesis deals with Virginia Woolf s To the Lighthouse and Colin Gregg s film adaptation of Woolf s novel. My critical concern is to discuss Woolf s novel and Gregg s film. I am particularly interested in characterization ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)In this thesis I examine why the graphic memoir has become such a popular platform for authors to explore their childhood, and how these authors use graphic memoirs in an attempt to understand any trauma that they experienced ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)This thesis, "The Chinese in America: A Recently Accepted Old Immigrant Group," aims at testing the hypothesis that the transition of Chinese immigrants into an accepted ethnic group in mainstream America and their influence ...
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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 / Masteroppgave, 2013)The main focus of this essay will be to discuss how Chuck Palahniuk presents gender in three of his books: Fight Club, Invisible Monsters and Diary, and how his presentation of gender often involves the deconstruction of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)This thesis investigates Tom Stoppard s inclusion of music and other aural effects (including juxtaposed silence) in his stage plays from 1967 to 2015. The analysis includes both diegetic and non-diegetic aural elements ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)For this MA thesis I have chosen to investigate the accent known as Estuary English (EE). Even though it is having a massive impact on the development of the English language (especially in Britain) there are few extensive ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)This thesis combines systemic-functional linguistics, stylistics and narrative theory in a study of cohesion, style, narrative technique and visual elements in Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly ...