Browsing Engelsk by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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The Taiwan Dilemma The United States of America and the struggle of Cross-Strait relationsRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)This study is an investigation of the very frequent noun PART, with primary focus on its use in three constructions: TAKE part, PLAY [*] part, and PLAY [*] [*] part. The theoretical framework for the study is rooted in ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)This thesis will seek to show how 1 Henry VI was used as a vessel for character experimentation, and how Shakespeare attempted to create a new kind of heroic protagonist, inspired by, and in opposition to, Marlowe’s ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)In my thesis I have done a comparative reading of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando in order to map out how the two authors managed bring about a shift in the Irish and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)The topic of this thesis is the only collection of short stories the American writer Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) published in her lifetime; <i>The Lottery, or the Adventures of James Harris</i> (1949). Drawing on recent ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)Tampa, Florida is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. However, Tampa has fast become a large metropolis where the human scale urban environment, characteristic of traditional American cities, has become ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)The aim of this thesis has been to find out whether using Norwegian rather than English in our English lessons is in fact the rule rather than the exception today, and to find out in which situations Norwegian is used and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)The aim of this study has been to investigate how and to what extent storytelling is being used as a didactic tool in teaching English to young learners in Ukraine and Norway. It explores Ukrainian and Norwegian teachers ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)What does it mean to be avant-garde? Is there such a thing as a neo-avant-garde after the historical movements of Dada and Surrealism, or is the term obsolete? This thesis challenges earlier definitions of the avant-garde, ...
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The Absence of a Coherent Narrative: Silence, Invisibility and Repetition in the Work of Joan Didion (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)This thesis explores American author Joan Didion’s conceptualization of narrative and life as seen in her non-fictional works, and applies this to two of her fictional narratives, Play It as It Lays (1970) and The Last ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)The thesis discusses implications of applying a postclassical perspective on the fictional mind to readings of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence and “New Year’s Day”. The author’s emphasis on depicting ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)In this thesis, I will explore the influence of Toni Morrison’s concept of the “Africanist presence” on American identity formation. I will use Morrison’s own approach in Playing in the Dark to expose a fabricated Africanist ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)This study is an investigation of which phonetic aspects of Norwegian-accented English that might hinder communication in a situation where English is used as a lingua franca. The study is based on investigating the concept ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)The aim for my thesis has been to justify the claim I am making, that the narrative techniques employed in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient reflect sensations of fragmentation, alienation, and loss of the sense of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)This thesis examines four Norwegian-American novels in order to investigate what light they might shed on the urban Norwegian-American immigrant community in Minneapolis. The four novels are A Saloonkeeper’s Daughter by ...
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Thematic options in essays by students of English as a second language : a systemic functional approachRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)Abstract Until very recently, the usefulness and the pedagogical implications of the study of thematic options and their role in the thematic progression of texts have been in a way terra incognita for most teachers of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)A Bird in the House and Who Do You Think You Are? are written by two Canadian women writers, Margaret Laurence and Alice Munro respectively. The aim of my thesis is to make a comparative analysis of the theme and the ...