Browsing Engelsk by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)Summary of master thesis on P.B. Shelley and the Spirit of Beauty This thesis consists of three parts. The first part gives the basic ideas of the conceptual metaphor theory, especially as George Lakoff presents it. My ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)J.R.R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire are two landmark works in the genre of medievalist fantasy literature. The main argument of this thesis is that, despite the apparent ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)This study aims to demonstrate how Ashbery’s ekphrastic poem Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975) manages to verbally represent Parmigianino’s painting of the same name, in a manner that in effect bridges our understanding ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)From 1971 to 1974, North Carolina’s growing prison population topped the per capita incarceration rate in the United States. Thus, North Carolina was a pioneer in mass incarceration, a fairly recent phenomenon specific to ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)The basis for my thesis is E. M. Forster’s "A Passage to India" and Hari Kunzru’s "The Impressionist". Forster’s novel was published in 1924 and Kunzru’s in 2002, but although written almost eighty years apart, they describe ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This thesis deals with three works of feminist fiction, two novels and one theatrical play. The three literary works that I will discuss are Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925), Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal (1928) and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)This thesis offers an analysis of the gendered rhetorical strategies that were used in the 2000 and 2004 U.S. presidential campaigns. It is based on a text analysis of the presidential debates, acceptance speeches to the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)Første del av oppgaven er en oversettelse av Sloane Crosleys tekster ”Lost in Space” og ”Le Paris!”, fra boken How Did You Get This Number. Den andre delen er en kommentardel, hvor jeg diskuterer valgene jeg har gjort i ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)In the immediate aftermath of the Cold War the United States seemed to move toward a more multilateral foreign policy, yet throughout the 1990s the United States has repeatedly failed to support and promote important United ...
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Perception and Complicity in Octavia Butler's Kindred and J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)An analysis and comparison of thematic and formal elements in the two novels in question.
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)In this thesis I examine how the outdated notions of gender and gender norms have been used as tools to support various ideologies up through the years. The thesis will argue that the remnants of these ideologies can create ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2008)
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Personification, Adolescence and Ecofeminism: An Exploration of the Greek God Pan as a Symbolic Presence in Early Twentieth Century Children’s LiteratureRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)This thesis is an exploration of the connection between fiction literature and the ethics of the human treatment of the domesticated non-human animals who live their lives in constant relation to human society. The fiction ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)This project examines the patterns of use of fun and funny in American and British English using a data-driven phraseological approach to corpus linguistics to show similarities and differences between their use and shades ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)Abstract The present study dealt with six textbooks used to teach English in Burundi secondary schools to find out the extent to which phraseology is part of the taught syllabus. The research also aimed at finding out the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)This case study of intermediate Norwegian Lower Secondary School learners of English aims to answer the following research questions: 1) To what extent do Norwegian learners of English in Lower Secondary School use idiomatic ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)Seth's 1986 novel in sonnets, The Golden Gate, received mixed critical reviews, and has been given limited detailed poetic analysis. I use close reading analytical techniques and contextual analysis tools to examine the ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)This thesis explores the narrative technique, with an emphasis on characterisation, used by the Post-Second World War British writer Alan Sillitoe in his debut novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and in the short ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)The aim of this thesis is to trace key elements of the poetics that produced The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot’s landmark work of modernist poetry. Part I of the thesis examines the development of the Hulme-Pound-Eliot strand ...