Browsing Engelsk by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)This thesis seeks to explore the role of cultural imperialism in E.M. Forster s 1924 novel A Passage to India and the reasons that lead to the failure of intercultural communication between the coloniser and the colonised. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)This master thesis explores the phenomenon known as code-switching i.e. The alternative use of one or more languages in conversation, among three Norwegian teenagers occupied with gaming and the use of English in their ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)Victimisation Metaphors in Margaret Atwood s novel Surfacing by Berit Vike Metaphors have long ceased to be regarded as purely linguistic expressions, and today metaphors are also a conceptual phenomenon, bridging language ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the two rivaling perspectives of Katniss and the Capitol, in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, to extend our understanding of violence in literature. The violent depictions of the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)Fantasy authors are freer in their creation than most writers who are bound by a commitment to realism and mimesis, freer even than those within other Speculative Fiction genres. Focusing on a cross-section of High Fantasy ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)The primary purpose of this thesis is the exploration of ecofeminist aspects of women’s utopian and dystopian literature. Through close readings of two contemporary novels, Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall and The ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the complex relationship Charlotte Brontë s novels have with Europe. It will examine how religion, sexuality and morality, and language are used in order to create a British identity ...
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Voyages in the Dark : The Interaction of Money, Sexuality, and Identity in the Novels of Jean Rhys (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)This thesis analyzes and discusses Jean Rhys s five novels: Quartet (1928), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930), Voyage in the Dark (1934), Good Morning, Midnight (1939), and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). I have explored the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)On 28 March 1979 the House of Commons passed a Motion of No Confidence in the Government. It was the first (and only) time since 1924 that a British government had lost such a motion. The result of the following election ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)This thesis explores the conditions that constitute and uphold the power hierarchy between the sexes, as emphasized by the two novels The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Power by Naomi Alderman. Both belonging ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)Britain s parliamentary system of government has traditionally been characterised by a two-party system, in which the two dominating parties, Labour and Conservatives, have alternated the roles of government and opposition. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)The thesis presents a corpus-based contrastive analysis of phrasal verbs construed with the English particles off and on and the Norwegian ones av and på with the chief aim of drawing a parallel between usage and translation ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)Mainstream space operas, although often dealing directly with the odd and Other, tend to be reluctant to include explicitly queer characters. Queer fans of science fiction, then, have to find their own ways to find meaning ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)The first Norwegian edition of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist was published in 1880. This thesis sets out to discover what has become of the novel and its many adaptations in Norway since then. Taking a comprehensive and ...
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"Well, I’ve Whispered ‘Racism’ in a Post-Racial World”: A Study of the Paradox That Is a Post-Racial AmericaRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)This thesis will combine Paul Beatty’s The Sellout with critical race theory to expose the failures and absurdities of post-racialism. It will use Beatty’s novel as a starting point to explore the issues of colorblind ...