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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 / Masteroppgave, 2013)This thesis aims to identify some of the challenges Norwegian learners of English encounter when writing English for academic purposes. To this end, the linguistics and literature section of the Norwegian subcorpus of the ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)This thesis explores fairy tale elements in a selection of Oscar Wilde’s works, to a large extent based on a list of thirty-one fairy tale functions introduced by the Formalist Vladimir Propp. The works studied are the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)This thesis explores the counterintuitive concept of the fallen man in literature from the mid- and late-Victorian period. The fallen man is a concept that has gained almost no attention and space in the novels and reception ...
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Familiarizing the Unfamiliar: Visual and Verbal Self-Representations of Middle Eastern WomenRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)This thesis examines diasporic Middle Eastern women's self-representation in Susan Abulhawa's The Blue Between Sky and Water (2015) and The Complete Persepolis (2000) by Marianne Satrapi. Although produced in different ...
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Fantastic Dream-Quests : George MacDonald's "Phantastes" and David Lindsay's "A Voyage to Arcturus" (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)This thesis studies the adult high (or other-world) fantasy of two pioneers in the genre: George MacDonald, who enjoys some reputation still, and David Lindsay, whose fame has remained very limited. Lindsay acknowledged ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)The main focus of this thesis is to offer new insight into the portrayal of female superheroes in comic books and the ways in which they highlight important feminist issues. I have divided the topic into three chapters, ...
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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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Feeling Blue: Nostalgia and Gender in Contemporary Anglophone Retellings of the Bluebeard Fairy Tale (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)The main goal of this thesis is to show the advantage of further discussion on nostalgia in relation to retellings of fairy tales. I claim that employing Svetlana Boym’s distinction between reflective and restorative ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This thesis examines the masculinity of the male protagonists, the heroes, in the romance novels Tribute by Nora Roberts and Match Me if You Can by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. The two heroes from these novels are seen as ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)This thesis will explore the female body presented in Margaret Atwood’s fictional world of Gilead in the context of material feminism. Through the mediums of two novels and one TV show I will use material feminist theories ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2004)The thesis investigates the conjunction of postcolonial and feminist elements in Salman Rushdie s Shame. It explores how narration, language and the logic of the novel in combination with the female characters constitute ...
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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, 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 / Masteroppgave, 2014)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)Extralinguistic Cultural References (ECRs) are certain elements in a source culture, which are difficult to translate to the target language. These elements refer to specific concepts in the source culture, such as people, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)The thesis aims to shed light on the political background to Citizenship, a statutory subject introduced in New Labour’s first term in government. Firstly, it seeks to clarify why this new subject was introduced into the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)Abstract The primary purpose of this thesis is to provide a detailed mapping of foreign language anxiety as an affective state which concerns students, particularly in speaking activities during L2 classes. Starting from ...