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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)This study explores differences and similarities in the Southern Baptist and Pentecostal discourse on Islam through a qualitative analysis of the two evangelical news outlets Charisma and the Baptist Press. The first chapter ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)This thesis introduces the concept of a “queering subject,” a protagonist who through boundary transgressions and the destabilizing character of her/his subjectivity challenges the fixity and finality of the socially ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)Abstract This thesis looks at how shame is depicted in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. In doing so, it looks both at how David, the main character in the novel, experiences his own shame in the moment, and how shame can ...
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Quiet is hell, I say: The Role of Women Poets in the Development of the Victorian Dramatic Monologue (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This thesis explores the claim that the Victorian dramatic monologue developed into two distinct traditions – the traditional, predominantly male tradition represented by writers such as Browning and Tennyson, and a separate ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)This thesis discusses and compares the themes of race, gender and class in Brick Lane by Monica Ali and The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. My main objective is to explore similarities and differences between the three ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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Radical Black Subjectivity A Study of Resistance in African American Female LiteratureRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)This thesis explores the possibilities for resistance for African American female characters within ideologies which favor some identities above others. This will be done through examining two novels from the 21st century, ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)This thesis is an analysis of Jack Kerouac s novels On the Road, The Subterraneans, and The Dharma Bums. The angle is Kerouac s ambiguity and his supposed influence on the countercultural movements of the sixties. Themes ...
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Rape and Torture: Depictions of Violence in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)This thesis examines depictions of violence in two of the South African author J. M. Coetzee's most significant novels, Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) and Disgrace (1999). The thesis considers contextual and historical ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)This thesis seeks to prove that the established reputation of essentialism is undeserved, and argues that Toni Morrison s presentation of religion and spirituality in Beloved (1987) and Paradise (1998) contains both implicit ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)This thesis explores the experimental poetic discourse of The Waves by Virginia Woolf, including narrative and dramatic aspects. My discussion takes its cue from the Author's attempt to write to a rhythm and not to a ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)In literary theory, literary criticism and in the Western literary canon there is evidence of an exclusion or erasure of a bisexual perspective, and this has also been the case within much of the written history of sexuality ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)In this thesis I will lay out an argument for an implicit intimacy between Hemingway and his reader that runs counter to a great deal of the tired ideas we have about the writer. I will propose that the aesthetic dimension ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)The intent of this thesis is to evaluate how a product of reader-response can be useful as a tool for critical analysis of the literary work it initially was a response to. By reading Frankenstein as the result of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Abstract This study applies Halliday s Systemic Functional Grammar to text analysis. The readability of Technical English in Norwegian-produced, English as Second Langugage textbooks has been assessed in terms of its ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)This thesis is a study of Wordsworth's poetry in the context of pastoral literature. It is made up of two parts. The first is devoted to a general survey of the literary tradition of pastoral. The opening chapter is an ...
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The Real World is Where the Monsters Are: The Monstrous Body in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle Gothic (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)Denne tesen ser nærmere på det litterære monsteret på slutten av 1800-tallet og hvordan den monstrøse kroppen utviklet seg i tre gotiske romaner: "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "The Island of Dr Moreau", og "Dracula"
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)