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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)David Lightfoot’s account of diachronic syntax proposes the autonomous operation of a Transparency Principle to remove opacity and complexity in a language by means of radical re-analysis. Parameter setting and “bumpiness” ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
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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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)In accordance with Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980), this thesis explores the various metaphorical expressions for death found in British and American obituaries from September 2014, and analyses their ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)This thesis revolves around the issue of how an author's biography contributes to the reception of the work, and how the reception is often drastically influenced on how much the reader knows about the author. This is ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)This thesis applies the theory of Gothic-postmodernism formulated by Maria Beville to the novels The Secret History by Donna Tartt and Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. As a relatively new theory, Gothic-postmodernism has ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)This thesis seeks to explore the way constructions of animality present problematic discourses of race, gender and human ethnic groups in the Harry Potter series. This is done with special emphasis on the third novel, Harry ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)This thesis explores how academic space creates limitations and disadvantages for African American characters in three novels from the 21st century. These three novels are Zadie Smith’s On Beauty (2005), Brandon Taylor’s ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)This thesis examines Spiegelman’s use of the graphic novel as a medium to visualize the connections between the present and the past. It looks at how the comics medium allows for narrative and temporal layers that can ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)Demonstratives are referring expressions that exist in all languages. English and Norwegian are no exceptions to this rule. Their demonstrative systems are similar in both form and meaning. Perhaps due to their similarities, ...
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Den mystiske Benedictklubben: En kommentert oversettelse av Trenton Lee Stewarts "The Mysterious Benedict Society" (utdrag)Restricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)Denne masteroppgava i litterær oversettelse består av to deler. Den første delen består av oversettelsen min av et utdrag fra Trenton Lee Stewarts barne-/ungdomsroman, The Mysterious Benedict Society – kapittel 1, 10 og ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)The aim of the thesis (Desperately) Seeking the Early Modern Self: The Self, Subjectivity, Modernity and Representation in Shakespeare s Hamlet is to explore the Early Modern self in Hamlet. A host of neo-Marxist new ...
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DET SISTE MUSEUM : En kommentert oversettelse av utdrag fra The Last Museum av Brion GysinRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)Denne masteroppgaven består av en oversettelse av et utdrag fra Brion Gysins roman The Last Museum, samt en kommentar til oversettelsen. Som teoretisk bakgrunn for kommentarene har jeg anvendt Peter Newmarks oversettelsesmetode, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)In Cormac McCarthy’s writing dialogue and spoken words are often kept short and precise. Saying as little as possible, without revealing too much. In terms of dialogue, what then is said becomes essential for the reader ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)Dialogues with the Past: Vision, Voice and Writing in Lady Mary Wroht s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621) is an analysis of the first published sonnet sequence by an Englishwoman. In this thesis I stage feminist theory of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)This thesis presents an investigation of discourse markers in written Norwegian learner language. Previous studies indicate that learners of English tend to embrace a style of writing which is influenced by oral language. ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)This thesis is an analysis of Graham Greene s The Lawless Roads. The aim of the analysis is through close-reading the text to acquire a better understanding of the multi-faceted protagonist in The Lawless Roads. With the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This thesis seeks to explore how we as readers perceive literary characters who communicate differently than the society they are situated in. By analyzing Herman Melville`s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and Toni Morrison`s ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)The writings of Chuck Palahniuk contain a large variety of strange and interesting characters. Many of them are victims of the choices they or others made, which is how their lives become interesting. I aim to see if there ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)This thesis explores concepts of narration, characterization, and intertextuality in Barbara Kingsolver "The Poisonwood Bible." The narrative in this novel is divided between five different narrators, and I examine how ...