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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter, and contemporary society : the Harry Potter books as social criticism (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)There are many possible ways of reading J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series because it has borrowed elements from several genres, ranging from the detective story to the bildungsroman. While recognizing the series as ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This thesis explores the ways in which Coetzee removes normative authorial guidance in his Disgrace and Elizabeth Costello. The close reading of the novels will focus on their different narrative structure and shared ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)The aim of this thesis has been to study the ideas about female education at the turn of the eighteenth century in the two writers, Jane Austen and Hannah More, who both interpreted education as the development of the whole ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)This thesis investigates Jane Austen s references to food and meals in her novels, and how these references can participate in developing her characters. The characters are of paramount importance in this kind of novel, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)The overall purpose of this thesis is to compare and contrast Jane Austen’s intentions behind the portrayal of two of her male characters, Mr. Darcy and Mr. Wickham, in 'Pride and Prejudice', with particular emphasis on ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)This thesis delves deeper into an analysis of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park (1814) and its relevance within the abolitionist discourse. Following Edward Said’s influential work, Culture and Imperialism (1993), Austen’s ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)This thesis discusses the literary merits of the science fiction genre through modern genre theory and reception theory, examining what the science fiction genre does that is unique and what it can contribute to the literary ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)This thesis argues that the poetry of John Donne was propelled by the poet’s deeply held philosophical propositions, among which the existence and triunity of God are chief. Donne understood the unity of one God in three ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)This thesis aims to conduct a characterological study of John Fante’s protagonist Arturo Bandini from the two novels Wait Until Spring, Bandini and The Road to Los Angeles. Through an analysis of the narrative technique ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)In this thesis I investigate whether and how John Keats responds to Chaucerian dream poems in his fragmentary work The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream. I begin by examining Chaucer’s reception in the Romantic period, exploring ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)This thesis compares and contrasts John Updike’s Rabbit, Run and Don DeLillo’s White Noise. Despite outward appearances to the contrary, Updike’s and DeLillo’s respective works are similar in their approach to an American ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)In my thesis I call attention to Jonathan Swift as a political commentator of Irish affairs through an analysis of A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture and four of the Drapier’s Letters. Swift’s Irish ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)The Elizabethan explorer Anthony Jenkinson was a legend in his own day, and his extensive travels were celebrated by his contemporaries in both prose and poetry. Jenkinson's travels took him through much of Europe, the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)In this thesis I intend to discuss male identity as constructed through narrative in Toni Morrison’s novels Song of Solomon, Jazz and Love. In all three books, the characters are eager to shape their experiences through ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)William S. Burroughs’ work is generally regarded as narratives of opposition and revolt. However, in this thesis, I will examine how his socially deviant characters are not exempt from discourses that rely on binary ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)Oppgaven er en kommentert oversettelse av romanen Fight Club av Chuck Palahniuk. Den inneholder en oversettelse av de sju første kapitlene i romanen. Kommentardelen tar for seg oversetterproblemer, og diskuterer disse i ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)In this thesis I have argued the case for Katherine Mansfield's Literary Expressionism in my selected stories 'Miss Brill', 'The Fly', 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', 'Prelude' and 'At the Bay'. I have argued that ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)Masteroppgaven består av to deler. Første del er min oversettelse av et utdrag fra Brandon Sandersons kortroman The Emperor’s Soul. Andre del er en kommentar til oversettelsen, hvor jeg redegjør for og diskuterer utfordringene ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Første del av denne oppgaven består av oversettelsen av fire noveller fra Anita Desais novellesamling Games at Twilight: Tittelnovellen "Games at Twilight", "The Farewell Party", "Private Tuition by Mr Bose" og "Surface ...