Browsing Engelsk by Title
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)When Bunreacht na hÉireann, the Constitution of Ireland, was passed in 1937, the Irish Language had a central position in it, despite its being a marginal minority language in terms of number of speakers and social status. ...
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GENDER PERFORMANCE AND STEREOTYPES IN THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, A WRINKLE IN TIME AND CORALINERestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)Children’s novels like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle and Coraline by Neil Gaiman are important pieces of literature to analyse as their impact and popularity has already ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)Gendered Islamophobia is a term used to describe the difference in how Muslim women are affected differently by Islamophobia than Muslim men. This includes how the differences in the portrayal of Muslim women in the media ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)This thesis explores the process of gentrification in the United States’ most populous city, and particularly in its largest borough, Brooklyn. This process has brought about a change to the socio-economic composition of ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)George Bernard Shaw s strategies are comprehensive and embrace many aspects of his literary career. The term strategy is not used in its original sense which usually only includes the consciously based choices. In Pierre ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)This thesis aims to examine the size and scale of Germanic piracy in Roman Britain. It includes criticism of the central arguments in scholarly work on the subject. The poverty of conclusive evidence for the naval activity ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)This thesis showcases selected Victorian ghost stories by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charlotte Riddell, and Edith Nesbit in order to examine agency and ghostliness. In the Victorian period, separate gender spheres were largely ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)This thesis explores some of the basic principles of the modern romance, with particular emphasis on the paranormal romance. With the Twilight Saga as an example, in the first chapter, this thesis explores how the feminist ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)In response to Garth Greenwell’s claims that Hanya Yanagihara’s 2015 novel A Little Life is a subversive work of gay literary fiction due to its queer negativity and melodrama, I assert that tragedy has dominated the gay ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)This thesis discusses The Hunger Games trilogy and film series as gynocentric, motivation driven narratives. For that purpose, the motivation driven narrative is defined and introduced as an opposing end to the androcentric ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)This thesis investigates how Muslims are portrayed in the American press by examining the nominal collocates of the adjective Muslim, and the adjectival collocates of the noun Muslim. The dominating approach in this study ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)British national identity was in the process of being defined around the turn of the 19th century, and as the British Empire stretched over oceans and continents, the need to define an essential [ ] [national] character ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)This thesis explores gender and narrative technique in three Edith Wharton novels: The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and Summer. Women writers before Wharton were often not taken seriously, and this thesis ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)The thesis “Greek-American Identity in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex, Self-Transformation through the Lens of Ethnicity” examines how three generations of a Greek-American family reinvent their identities in a lengthy process ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)In this dissertation I provide an analysis of grotesque characters in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectation (1860-1861) and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). Dickens’s later novels are darker than ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)Summary This thesis examines the ways in which young adult literature represents sexual trauma inflicted on adolescent protagonists. The appliance of trauma theory to the novels I have chosen shows how trauma is represented ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This thesis explores contemporary literature in light of Kenneth W. Warren s critical study, What Was African American Literature? (2011). It investigates six African American novels published during President Barack Obama ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)The thesis aims to explore the plotting of six mystery- and crime-thrillers. The texts I have chosen are classics from an increasingly prestigious era of our modern narrative history; the novels are hardboiled and the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)Summary This thesis looks at J.K. Rowling’s seven-volume Harry Potter series (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, The Chamber of Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Phoenix, The ...