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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis argues that identity through the themes of life, death and loneliness in Monica Ali`s Brick Lane (2006) and In the Kitchen (2009) is fundamental to the novels.
Chapter 1 presents Monica Ali as an author. It ...
On the polysemy of the verb think : a corpus-based contrastive study Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
The present thesis is a corpus based contrastive study. It is devoted to the polysemy of the verb think.
The cognates English think and Norwegian tenke are both frequently occurring verbs which express different meanings ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
This thesis aims to examine Mexican-American identity with regard to two particular factors: immigration and race. First, Mexican immigration has been a contentious topic ever since Mexicans started to migrate to the United ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
Abstract of thesis:
In my analysis of The End of the Affair (1951), I examine how memory and narrative are presented as problematic existential complexes at work in the story and the discourse. My main claim is that the ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
This thesis analyzes Michael Cunningham s novel The Hours (1998) and Stephen Daldry s film adaptation The Hours (2002) in relation to the novel s intertextual elements. This is not something that is easily done as the ...
Ladies of the Ivory Tower : Academic Feminism and Feminist Academics in Carol Shields's Swann, David Lodge's Nice Work, and A. S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis explores the representation and negotiation of academic feminism and feminist academics in three best-selling campus novels: Carol Shields’ Swann (1987), David Lodge’s Nice Work (1988), and A.S Byatt’s Possession: ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
This thesis explores concepts of narration, characterization, and intertextuality in Barbara Kingsolver "The Poisonwood Bible." The narrative in this novel is divided between five different narrators, and I examine how ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Abstract
Margaret Thatcher was Britain's premier for an impressive period of 11 years and is probably the best known British premier since Winston Churchill. Her reputation as "the Iron Lady" originated in the USSR, and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The thesis examines the postwar author Richard Yates and his novel Revolutionary Road in relation to gender roles, suburbia and the American family. My aim is for Richard Yates to be acknowledged as an author who can offer ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Is there a woman behind the veil? This thesis discusses the importance of clothing, textiles, and accessories in Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle and Alias Grace. Atwood focuses on female identity and female experiences in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis investigates the pragmatic competence of Danish advanced L2 learners of English. More specifically, the thesis focuses on the learners’ politeness strategies when performing the understudied speech act remindings. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
SUMMARY
THE PROBLEM OF MATURATION IN THE BELL JAR BY SYLVIA PLATH AND THE CATCHER IN THE RYE BY J.D. SALINGER
In my Master’s thesis I have focused The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
In this dissertation I provide an analysis of grotesque characters in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectation (1860-1861) and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). Dickens’s later novels are darker than ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Første del av oppgaven er en oversettelse av Sloane Crosleys tekster ”Lost in Space” og ”Le Paris!”, fra boken How Did You Get This Number. Den andre delen er en kommentardel, hvor jeg diskuterer valgene jeg har gjort i ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis aims to shed light on the much discussed topic of identity and belonging. Through a close reading of Hanif Kureishi`s The Buddha of Suburbia, I focus on how the development
of identity is portrayed in the novel ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Abstract
The primary purpose of this thesis is to provide a detailed mapping of foreign language anxiety as an affective state which concerns students, particularly in speaking activities during L2 classes. Starting from ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Inheritance er en fortelling om kjærlighet, sjalusi, sinne og tilgivelse i en kinesisk familie
gjennom flere generasjoner. Vi følger dem fra de er i Kina, gjennom den kinesiske
revolusjonen, til de etablerer seg et liv som ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
In recent years, there have been an increasing number of inquiries into the history of authorship. Many scholars have constructed their own historiographies of authorship, and these studies have shown the various ways in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis examines if there has been developed a modern English national identity in the wake of devolution in the UK in 1999. The thesis creates a set of attributes which are credited the concept ‘modern national identity’ ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis takes you into the exotic world of Bollywood Cinema and it aims at discovering the changes that a film must undergo when being remade across cultural boundaries. My main point of this thesis is to analyze the ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis examines Spiegelman’s use of the graphic novel as a medium to visualize the connections between the present and the past. It looks at how the comics medium allows for narrative and temporal layers that can ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2004)
The thesis investigates the conjunction of postcolonial and feminist elements in Salman Rushdie s Shame. It explores how narration, language and the logic of the novel in combination with the female characters constitute ...
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
In the present study, Norwegian advanced learners of English are found to overuse many features of writer/reader visibility compared to native speakers of English. This is shown by comparing corpora of Norwegian learner ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis is a compare and contrast analysis of the female voice of depression in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Jean Rhys’ Good Morning, Midnight and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.
More women than ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The focus of the present corpus-based investigation is to analyze the degree of mutual correspondence in bidirectional translations of the English preposition from and its Norwegian counterpart fra. Although the prepositions ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Denne studien undersøkjer det semantiske innhaldet i engelske og norske framtidsuttrykk frå eit kontrastivt synspunkt. Sidan desse språka ikkje har systematiske grammatiske kontrastar for å uttrykkje framtid, vert dette ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
This thesis explores fairy tale elements in a selection of Oscar Wilde’s works, to a large extent based on a list of thirty-one fairy tale functions introduced by the Formalist Vladimir Propp. The works studied are the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
A striking pattern of recurring imagery in The English Patient (1992) is reminiscent of the style of paintings by the baroque artist, Caravaggio (1571-1610), who became a legend for his innovation called chiaroscuro, also ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Within the framework of the present study, simile, which is a special kind of metaphor, is investigated both on the syntactic and conceptual levels.
The starting point of the research are two English simile frames: "like ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
THE ENGLISH VILLAGE IN JANE AUSTEN S NOVELS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON EMMA
SUMMARY
Two Enduring symbols of Englishness are the English village and Jane Austen s novels. Even though I believe that Jane Austen s overriding ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Oversettelse av utdrag fra The Rules of Attraction av Bret Easton Ellis. En kildetekst preget av muntlig, uformelt språk med mye slang.
Kommentardelen tar for seg strategivalget for denne oversettelsen. Fordi kildeteksten ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
This thesis discusses one of Shakespeare’s most obscure plays, The Life of Timon of Athens, a play which portrays the economic and social fall of a character named Timon.
This play has often been viewed as an economically ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
The scope of this thesis is to investigate vocabulary and vocabulary development in current textbooks for the English subject in the Norwegian upper secondary school. My hypothesis is that the textbooks do not have a ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
We live in a world where the borders between nations and continents in many ways have become less significant. International co-operation has become a necessity, both in connection with political issues and in international ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
This thesis observes the use of the prototypically functioning impersonal and objective rhetorical structure of extraposition in a corpus-based study of Norwegian leaners of English. Both contrastive and contrastive ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Today, English words find their way into the Norwegian language as never before. It is practically impossible to read a newspaper without discovering an English loanword. One way of preserving the Norwegian language is to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Oppgaven består av oversettelser av to noveller skrevet av Neil Gaiman, og en kommentardel. Novellene er innenfor sjangeren fantastisk litteratur.
Kommentardelen tar for seg relevante problemstillinger, blant annet ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This master’s thesis is a corpus-based investigation of an atypical progressive construction which has been characterized as a fairly recent phenomenon in the English language. The construction in question is used as a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of the largely neglected relationship between madness and masculinity based on three American literary works written during different periods of the twentieth century. The study ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis builds on previous taxonomies of lexical errors in order to find patterns of lexical errors in Norwegian intermediate and advanced English texts. This study uses a taxonomy created by Angela Hasselgren to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Genre analysis studies concerning the medical research article are limited, and the few studies that do exist tend to focus exclusively on the textual aspects of the genre, with little consideration for the context and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis focuses on two poems written by male writers in the eighteenth century, specifically ‘An Elegy to a Young Lady in the Manner of Ovid’ by James Hammond and ‘The Lady’s Dressing Room’ by Jonathan Swift, read in ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Masteroppgaven undersøker tre pågående lingvistiske endringer i skriftlig engelsk i de to største variantene, britisk engelsk og amerikansk engelsk, både synkront og diakront. De tre endringene er: den økte bruken av ...
Stylistic Features of Legal Discourse: A Comparative Study of English and Norwegian Legal Vocabulary
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The study represents a contrastive investigation of stylistic features peculiar to legal discourse, in English and Norwegian. This is a qualitative study, based on a close reading of parallel English and Norwegian versions ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis evaluates two linguistic approaches to literary translation. The study examines two Norwegian translations of poetic texts by Leonard Cohen – one song and one poem. The analyses and evaluations are from the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis looks at Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay) as social criticism. It explores, through the topics and elements in the trilogy, how the author is commenting ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The main focus of this essay will be to discuss how Chuck Palahniuk presents gender in three of his books: Fight Club, Invisible Monsters and Diary, and how his presentation of gender often involves the deconstruction of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Sammendrag av masteroppgaven ”TO NOVELLER AV DAVID MALOUF FRA SAMLINGEN DREAM STUFF”
Innholdsfortegnelse:
Dream Stuff…………………………………………………………….………… ……. 3
På Schindlers pensjonat ………………………………………………………………4
Svart jord ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
This thesis offers an analysis of the gendered rhetorical strategies that were used in the 2000 and 2004 U.S. presidential campaigns. It is based on a text analysis of the presidential debates, acceptance speeches to the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis aims to examine the size and scale of Germanic piracy in Roman Britain. It includes criticism of the central arguments in scholarly work on the subject. The poverty of conclusive evidence for the naval activity ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
This thesis is an attempt to discuss a range of interpretations of Joseph Conrad s short novel Heart of Darkness by linking them to the complex meaning of two of the text s main metaphors, light and darkness . Race is ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
This thesis is a comparison of four different novels by four different authors: Nella Larsen s Passing (1929), Zora Neale Hurston s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Toni Morrison s Sula (1973), and Alice Walker s The ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
This thesis looks at how Norwegian advanced learners use one of the features that make the reader perceive a text as a unified whole, namely linking adverbials. It includes a Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis (CIA) comparing ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
The thesis aims to investigate how three inter-related dimensions of caring are presented in two selected novels and their film adaptations. The literary texts are A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and The English ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
According to Eugene Nida’s theory of Dynamic Equivalence, the most important aim for translators should be to achieve equivalence in effect between original and translated text. Equivalent effect is achieved when a translated ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The present thesis is a corpus-based contrastive study. It examines the cognate verbs set and sette in English and Norwegian fiction original texts and their translations. The cognates set and sette are both relatively ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This corpus-based study is an attempt to reveal and explain the current diachronic developments of the mandative subjunctive in AmE and to understand the function that it performs in the utterance with respect to other ...
(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 ...
Appraisal theory : employment of appraisal elements across samples from different genres Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate how appraisal is used in public discourse. I look at the frequency of appraisal elements in four texts from different genres, and I try to say something about the effect these ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Denne masteroppgaven er en corpusbasert undersøkelse av frekvens og forekomst av verb som vanligvis ikke brukes i 'the progressive aspect'. To corpus er benyttet, The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) og Time ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
This dissertation traces the imprint of exile in two short stories by Katherine Mansfield. Through a close reading of ‘At the Bay’ and ‘The Garden Party’, I want to focus on the way in which the development of the characters ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
The aim of the thesis (Desperately) Seeking the Early Modern Self: The Self, Subjectivity, Modernity and Representation in Shakespeare s Hamlet is to explore the Early Modern self in Hamlet. A host of neo-Marxist new ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2004)
The main aim of my thesis is to show that the ethos conveyed through Oscar Wilde’s Salomé – maybe more than in any other of his works – is in accordance with the parameters of “exceptional mental health,” a scientifically ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
This thesis investigates Jane Austen s references to food and meals in her novels, and how these references can participate in developing her characters. The characters are of paramount importance in this kind of novel, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
How can power be incorporated in the body? Katherine Dunn's Geek Love and Ruth L. Ozeki's My Year of Meats attempt to answer this question. This thesis sets out to explore cultural stereotypes and normative images in the ...
Syntactic and Functional Aspects of Full Inversion in Present-day English : A Corpus-based study Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Oppgaven tar for seg syntaktiske og funksjonelle aspekter ved fortellende setninger i samtidsengelsk hvor subjektet kommer etter verbet. Materialet er hentet fra 1800 sider skriftlig engelsk og er først gjenstand for en ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
The thesis is about the interrelation of temporal characteristics
and narrative technique in the novel The French Lieutenant s Woman, written by the British writer John Fowles in the 1960s.
I divide time in the novel into ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
This thesis discusses Beryl Bainbridge s historical novels The Birthday Boys and Every Man for Himself. The first novel concerns itself with Captain Scott s fatal South Pole expedition and the latter with the sinking of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
How has the Egton accent developed over the past 30 years? The aim of this thesis is to analyse tokens from seven lexical sets, TRAP, BATH, START, FOOT, STRUT, FACE and GOAT in order to compare the findings with the results ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
The title of this thesis, “Interpreted Identities”, refers to how individuals tend to be read into categories of identity based on the idea that we constitute seemingly coherent features of sex, gender, and sexuality, and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Sammendrag / Summary:
See is one of the most frequent lexical verbs in English. It is highly polysemous and appears in a number of syntactic environments. Based on 1001 examples from the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
In my thesis I examine how chance, fate and coincidence are incorporated and used deliberately in three of Paul Auster s novels: Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990) and Leviathan (1992). I place Auster s use of ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
The cognates English TAKE and Norwegian TA are both frequently occurring verbs found to express several different meanings in a range of syntactic environments. The main aim of this thesis is to describe these multifunctional ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
The thesis takes a closer look at the foundation course in English with particular interest in textbook activities.The main objective is to see if and to what extent changes in the syllabuses are reflected in the types of ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
This thesis is an analysis of Graham Greene s The Lawless Roads. The aim of the analysis is through close-reading the text to acquire a better understanding of the multi-faceted protagonist in The Lawless Roads. With the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
This thesis is concerned with the function of names in the short stories of Joyce Carol Oates. I have distinguished between fifteen different naming strategies. These are various ways in which names participate in her short ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Even though the larger feminist movement did not occur until later in the century, changes in the view of women’s place in society began in the mid-nineteenth century: women’s submissive appreciation of their situation was ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Denne avhandlingen presenterer en studie av det norske adverbet "gjerne", dets ulike betydninger og dets engelske korrespondanser. Studien er korpusbasert, og tar for seg hvordan "gjerne" oversettes til engelsk, og hvilke ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This study is a corpus based cross-sectional research on article use and acquisition by Russian learners. The data for my investigation is retrieved from the Russian part of the International Corpus of Learner English ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis is a presentation of ‘A Leche’, a deontological text in Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College MS 451/392, pp. 20-22. The title is mine. The manuscript is mentioned by Kari Anne Rand in volume 17 of The Index ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis aims at reading "Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark" through the lenses of the Picturesque considered as a set of theories, ideas, and conventions that developed around the ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
Understanding George Orwell’s famed novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) as a forceful warning about politically destructive forces rather than a future prophecy, the main critical concern of this thesis is to examine the ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
This thesis, titled Travel to the Threshold , presents a close reading of Graham Greene s The Lawless Roads (1939), an account of a journey he undertook through Mexico in 1938. Greene describes Mexico of the period as ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2004)
The conduct of war in Vietnam corresponds closely to voting dropoff in the United States. I try to show that the ideological assumptions that underlied the Vietnam War led directly to U.S. defeat and thus to public doubt ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
Sinclair Lewis and the American 1920s: Main Street, Babbitt and Arrowsmith
To me, the American 1920s is an exciting and fascinating period. It is in many ways a transitional period, as it would be possible to argue that ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Abstract
This thesis deals with three well-known adaptations of Shakespeare s Hamlet: Laurence Olivier s film from 1948, Franco Zeffirelli s film from 1990, and Kenneth Branagh s epic drama from 1996. My aim is to illustrate ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
“Subjection at home and abroad, Representations of the ‘other’ in Jane Eyre and Villette” is about the intersection between post-colonial and feminist literary theories and the partnering intersection in literary works ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”. With these words Howard Philips Lovecraft begins “The Supernatural Horror in Literature”. I contend ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
My aim as I set out to write this thesis was to show how three individual novels share the same strategies and problems involved in self-definition for black women. The main topics of discussion have been the novel’s ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
In my thesis I call attention to Jonathan Swift as a political commentator of Irish affairs through an analysis of A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture and four of the Drapier’s Letters. Swift’s Irish ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
This thesis gives a close reading of Brick Lane in order to show how contemporary literature written by ethnic minorities can preserve stereotypical presentations of the Oriental. The thesis also discusses if the film ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
Abstract
The aim of this is to investigate the use of metaphors in the area of journalism. The corpus was collected from economic issues in three selected business media periodicals (i.e. The Economist, The Financial ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
In my reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth, I explore how Indian American identities are shaped and function. Identities are ever-changing and impossible to fix: the need to negotiate identities is therefore ...