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Madness & Geography A Study on Voice, Discourse, and Polyphony in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)Abstract In the following thesis I intend to discuss the two distinct yet related forms of voyage at work in Conrad’s novella. This journey into Dark Africa, I will argue, has both a geographical and a psychological ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)This thesis explores the relationship between magical animals and didacticism in three texts written for children. Current approaches have dealt extensively with the topics of magic and didacticism in children’s literature, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)Bearing the marks of modern day satire with the evident playful revisions of Forster’s A Passage to India, Kipling’s Kim, and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist has since publication proved to be ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)In my thesis I examine how chance, fate and coincidence are incorporated and used deliberately in three of Paul Auster s novels: Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990) and Leviathan (1992). I place Auster s use of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)This corpus-based study is an attempt to reveal and explain the current diachronic developments of the mandative subjunctive in AmE and to understand the function that it performs in the utterance with respect to other ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)This thesis presents an investigation of the mandative subjunctive (MS) and its alternative realizations in four Asian Postcolonial Englishes: Philippine English (PHI), Singapore English (SING), Indian English (IND), and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)The Manhattan Transfer består av en oversettelse fra engelsk til norsk av de tretten første kapitelene i boken Elvis, Jesus & Coca Cola av Kinky Friedman, og en teoridel som belyser problemstillinger fra oversetterarbeidet. ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)The main question I structure my investigation around is how society’s sexual mores and conceptions of masculinity influenced the way in which men could be intimate friends in the last part of the nineteenth century and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)Despite the fact that Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre in particular is praised by many as a protofeminist work of fiction, there is general consensus amongst literary critics and Brontë biographers as to the socially uncharged ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)Margaret Laurence s (1926-1987) short story composite, A Bird in the House (1970), is a work of fictionalized autobiography, reminiscent of Laurence s own struggles as a writer growing up on the Canadian prairies in a ...
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Marriage and sexuality in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's lover and Erica Jong's Fear of flyingRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Marriage and sexuality are interconnected, but literary studies do often overlook this connection by attaching a more important value to romantic love and social contract as part of the discussion of marriage in literature. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)Mass Incarceration: Punitive Laws that Challenge Equal Rights and Opportunities for all explores Americans’ attitudes toward punishment. In order to say something about Americans’ attitudes toward punishment, the U.S. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)This thesis examines the ways in which Joe Sacco’s representations of maps and of the built environment in his graphic narratives Safe Area Goražde (2000) and Footnotes in Gaza (2009), function as material witnesses which ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)This study makes use of the Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis (Granger 1996) to examine the differences in use of modal auxiliaries may and might in the interlanguage produced by Norwegian and Japanese learners of English, ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Abstract: The main purpose of this thesis is to explore McCarthyism and its legitimacy.This paper will particularly look at the legitimacy of the HUAC investigations, of the loyalty-security programs, and of the FBI ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)The thesis is an interdisciplinary investigation of the usefulness of a linguistic inquiry as a part of a literary analysis of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad through the use of M.A.K Halliday’s theory of Systemic ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)This thesis explores the representation of melancholia in the autobiographies written by Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) and Jean Rhys (1890-1979). By a close reading of Cavendish’s A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)In the 1850s, the United States considered itself to be moving towards a new future, a democratic ideal specially released from limitations of the past. At the same time, the nation maintained its position to slavery and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)The purpose of this thesis is to argue for the importance of remembrance, of intersectional analysis, and the central role of fiction in the writing of history. These arguments will be made with special regard to queer, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)This paper uses the framework offered by Systemic Functional Grammar to investigate how Billboard represents and creates the categories of "man" and "woman". Through a process and participant analysis, seen in light of ...