Browsing Engelsk by Title
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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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)The purpose of this thesis is to look at the topoi surrounding lesbian literature and existence and how lesbian literature historically both has played on and subverted these set narratives. I will focus on The Price of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This study presents a thorough representation of how New Orientalist narrative is evident in Khaled Hosseini ́s The Kite Runner (2003), Susan Froetschel ́s Fear of Beauty (2013), and Trent Reedy ́s Words in the Dust (2011) ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)A politician needs to be persuasive. If he does not possess the ability to persuade others, he will never become a great politician. The interesting question is what makes a person persuasive? This thesis investigates a ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)This thesis focuses on the use of folklore in Arthurian literature. In the first chapter I give an introduction to the Arthurian tradition. I then examine the use of folklore in three modern Arthurian works, Alfred Lord ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)This thesis sets out to do close readings of the Pakistani author Bapsi Sidhwa’s novels The Pakistani Bride and Cracking India. It sheds light on the ways in which the image of the female body is used in the two novels and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)The main focus of this thesis is to discuss how testimony is communicated in the three graphic narratives of Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel and Waltz with Bashir ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2024)
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)This thesis investigates how the theme of migration and the ensuing quest for home and identity is presented in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem (1928), Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928), and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)Previous research has shown that the use and distribution of a particular linguistic item are motivated by certain discourse situational characteristics. Hence, this study attempts to shed light to on how and to what extent ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Many EFL learners find it challenging to construct their author identity in English L2 argumentative and academic writing. Learners may present brilliant content by means of inappropriate rhetorical features and fail to ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)