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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)In this thesis I have examined the narration in Joseph Conrad’s Typhoon (1902) and Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild (1997). These texts have man’s confrontation with extreme nature as a decisive feature. Being respectively ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)With this thesis, I wish to grant critical space to a character often overlooked in Shakespeare studies. Antony and Cleopatra has long been considered one of Shakespeare s most difficult problem tragedies . In a play where ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Using the rhetorical theory of narrative as developed by James Phelan, most specifically his ethics of the told and ethics of the telling, this thesis approaches three texts: Dave Eggers’ How We Are Hungry, Colum McCann’s ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)This thesis aims at reading "Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark" through the lenses of the Picturesque considered as a set of theories, ideas, and conventions that developed around the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)Oppgaven undersøker bruken av engelske pensumstekster i seks fag undervist ved Universitetet i Oslo våren 2007; tre naturvitenskapelige kurs og tre teologikurs. Studenter fra disse kursene deltok i en spørreundersøkelse, ...
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Need and dare as marginal modals in present-day American and British English : a corpus-based investigation of syntactic variationRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)NEED and DARE may function as either modal auxiliaries or main verbs. Both syntactic patterns are fully acceptable in present-day English, although there exists some variation in use of the two patterns between the different ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)The aim of the present paper is to give a picture of the semi-modal verb NEED TO in written and spoken British English. The scope of this paper is primarily the synchronic variation of NEED TO, but the quantitative analysis ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)This thesis provides an insight to perceptions and practices regarding oral negative feedback in Norwegian upper secondary education, through a triangulation of methods. The thesis confirms previous findings that there are ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Utopian colonies were flourishing in antebellum America, more than a hundred of such colonies were founded in this period by people who wanted to lead a life different from that of the mainstream. Some of the colonies were ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)This thesis examines how hybrid cultures develop in urban spaces, and it focuses on the South-Asian diaspora in London. Second generation immigrants often find themselves placed between two very different cultures, and ...
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New ways of being British : issues of race and class in Hanif Kureishi's My beautiful laundrette and The Buddha of SuburbiaRestricted Access (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)Hanif Kureishi is a charismatic and outspoken mixed-race writer who is not afraid to provoke an outcry through his work. He was one of the first writers to explore the situations of British Asians and, in several ways, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)This thesis investigates how the front pages of newsprint media presented the national discourse at the outset and peak of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. More specifically, it does so by examining in detail what is given ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)This study asks whether an ecocentric ethics in contemporary science fiction can guide our real-world ethics. The ideal ethics and its problem, this thesis clarifies, celebrates otherness as much as egalitarianism and has ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)This thesis explores struggling mothers in three 21st century works of fiction. Studying Lionel Shriver’s novel 'We Need to Talk About Kevin', Emma Donoghue’s novel 'Room' and Jennifer Kent’s film 'The Babadook', I argue ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)Første del av oppgaven er en oversettelse av kapittel 22, 38 og 52 fra Elizabeth Gaskells North and South (1855). Romanen handler om Margaret Hale som flytter fra det landlige Sør-England til det industrialiserte Nord-England ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)The terrorist attack in the USA on September 11, 2001, is perhaps the most significant event in recent American history. This thesis is a study of how the Norwegian media covered the most important crisis in the contiguous ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)Denne avhandlingen presenterer en studie av det norske adverbet "gjerne", dets ulike betydninger og dets engelske korrespondanser. Studien er korpusbasert, og tar for seg hvordan "gjerne" oversettes til engelsk, og hvilke ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)The purpose of this study was to investigate the reasons for enlistment among the Norwegians in America before the Civil War. Another aim was to investigate a part of the Norwegian-American history that has not been examined ...