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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)The purpose of this thesis is to examine two picture book versions of Snow White (2014) and Cinderella (2015) and to argue that they are important texts within the studies of children's literature. Although currently ignored ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)This Master´s Thesis explores selected policies implemented by Sadiq Khan that is based on material from his manifesto prior to the candidate election to become Mayor of London in 2016. A distinct observation prior to the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)ABSTRACT This thesis is a twofold attempt at understanding the reception of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses (1988) from a secular and a religious perspective. The Rushdie case has stirred powerful emotions on a ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)This study looks at how Kim Stanley Robinson s Mars trilogy (1993-96), Iain M. Banks s Culture novel The Player of Games (1988), and John Ringo s novel Live Free or Die (2010) work within the genre of SF to establish and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)This thesis re-examines the Scottish migration to the province of Ulster, Ireland in the early seventeenth century, from 1603-1625. The Plantation of Ulster, initiated by the English government in 1609, marked the beginning ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)This thesis examines the Scottish National Party (SNP) with respect to two of its most defining defence policies: its opposition to nuclear weapons, wanting to rid Scotland of the UK s nuclear deterrent based there, and ...
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The Scottish National Party’s case for independence: Scottish independence, and how the SNP have used circumstances to argue why it is the best option for Scotland.Restricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)This thesis aims to explore Scottishness in modern Scottish detective fiction. Aiming to uncover what Scottishness is, it examines to what extent Scottishness is reflected in modern Scottish detective fiction. It also ...
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Scripted and unscripted dialogue. An analysis of situational and linguistic features.Restricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)The aim of this thesis is to analyse the differences between scripted and unscripted speech, specifically that of television dialogue and casual conversation. Despite the extensive history of studying conversation, there ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)SAMMENDRAG This thesis examines a possible ‘spiritual vacuum’ within the modernist era (1890-1940, approximately). As a basis for this discussion I have chosen the works of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and T.S. Eliot’s ...
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Searching for Identity in Villette: Charlotte Brontë, Lucy Snowe and the 21st-Century Woman Reader (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)This thesis argues that there are parallels between the situation of women today and Lucy Snowe in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Villette (1853). Based on reception studies, feminist theory and an historically informed close ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)The study of character and characterization has largely neglected the role of identity in the construction and interpretation of literary characters. Building on insights from classical, rhetorical, and cognitive narratology, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)‘Seeming Would Be Quite Enough’ explores theatrical expressions in Little Dorrit (1855-1857) by Charles Dickens. The many borrowings from entertainment culture, ranging from Punch and Judy to circus, add greatly to the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)In this thesis I examine the way the concept of the self and our perception of reality are intertwined in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) and C. S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce (1945), and what similarities and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)The thesis analyzes and compares how the narrators of "The Awakening" (1899), by Kate Chopin, and "Sister Carrie" (1900), by Theodore Dreiser, represent the selves of the novels’ two protagonists, Edna Pontellier and Carrie ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)Jakob Lothe’s course “Narrative in Fiction and Film” underlines the vital importance of the whole context of the narrative, whenever telling a story on paper or on the screen. This thesis is a comparison of E. M. Forster’s ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)This thesis focuses on the semantic change within farming-related nouns in the Paston letters. This is done by extensively searching the Paston letters in the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, where seventeen ...
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Sense and sensibility? : characterization in Jane Austen s novel compared to characterization in Ang Lee's film adaptationRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)This thesis aims to discuss characterization of Marianne and Elinor as portrayed in Jane Austen s Sense and Sensibility and Ang Lee s film adaptation of this novel. I concentrate on the use of direct and indirect ...