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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
One of the efforts to contain the influence from English has involved the creation of Norwegian substitute forms (avløserord) or the expansion of the meaning of an existing word to another domain. The aim of this thesis ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
The 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was a most horrific expression of how international and domestic terrorism posed new, and until then, unimaginable threats to the national security of the United ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
This thesis studies the adult high (or other-world) fantasy of two pioneers in the genre: George MacDonald, who enjoys some reputation still, and David Lindsay, whose fame has remained very limited. Lindsay acknowledged ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2004)
In my thesis I am analysing four literary texts all written during the 1950s in Britain. The four texts are "Lucky Jim" by Kingsley Amis, "Look Back in Anger" by John Osborne, "Room at the Top" by John Braine and "Saturday ...
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby seen through two different forms of art - literature and film
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
This thesis investigates the close connection between film and literature. It analysis three pieces of work - the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and two of its adaptations, one from 1974 directed by Jack ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2004)
The aim of this thesis is to show that the Harry Potter novels have something in common with traditional children's literature as well as they are innovative. Joanne Rowling's novels have been accused of being derivative. ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
The thesis is about the importance of letter writing in Austen s novels. I focus on the following aspects: how the British postal services worked, the letters significance in people s social lives, and the 'rules' and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
The aim of the present paper is to give a broad picture of the modal verb can, with specific reference to its distribution and uses in contemporary written and spoken British English. I attempted to illustrate that the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Undersøkelsen som følger er basert på romanen A Passage to India av EM. Forster og hensikten med denne studien er å vise hvordan fysisk avstand, sosial avstand, og følelsesmessig distanse i romanen driver maktforholdene ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
I chose to work with four films by director Frank Capra because of his fascinating portrayals of American society and values. The thematic focus of my thesis was his portrayal of the notion of the individual and the ...
How synonymous are rather, quite, pretty and fairly? : a corpus-based study of adverbial modifiers Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
In my master thesis I present the results of a study of adverbial modifiers rather, quite, pretty and fairly.
The aim of the present thesis is to investigate how synonymous rather, quite, pretty and fairly are. The main ...
The indefinite pronouns in the English language : a corpus-based investigation of somebody, someone, anybody and anyone Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
This thesis deals with four indefinite pronouns: somebody, someone, anybody, anyone. My aim is to investigate the difference between these semantically similar lexical items. The study is conducted using the British National ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
Lexical Chunks in English Language Teaching A Survey of Research and Teaching is a thesis concerning the didactics of English language teaching with an emphasis on vocabulary teaching and learning. As large computer ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
This thesis examines how the differences between Tolkien's novel - the Lord of the Rings - and its filmic adaptation can be explained. In particular, how the changes can be related to the different nature, conventions and ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
This thesis aims to analyze space in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and Minghella's adaptation. I explore how the written and the visual media present significant cosntituent aspects of space in the two works of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
The 1960s was a decade of engagement, uproar, frustration and happiness. More than anything, it was the decade of blossoming youths. Whether dealt with year by year, or as one homogenous period, whatever one’s attitude to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Through a diversified career spanning nearly four decades, Joni Mitchell has reached an acknowledged status as a musician, composer, lyricist, painter and singer. Her 1971 album Blue is often seen as her seminal work, and ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
The main question I structure my investigation around is how society’s sexual mores and conceptions of masculinity influenced the way in which men could be intimate friends in the last part of the nineteenth century and ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Betty Friedan has been celebrated as the author of the 1963 bestseller, The Feminine Mystique, a book that changed women s lives and was inspiration for the women s liberation movement. In The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
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The thesis written by Natalia Vassilieva is called I mean, you know, you see, kind of, sort of, and well, a corpus-based study of discourse markers as used by women and men . The thesis makes use of the spoken ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
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The thesis looks at Rushdie s three first major novels (Midnight s Children, Shame and The Satanic Verses) as a loose-knit trilogy and examines the way Rushdie uses literary techniques belonging to postmodern and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
The Manhattan Transfer består av en oversettelse fra engelsk til norsk av de tretten første kapitelene i boken Elvis, Jesus & Coca Cola av Kinky Friedman, og en teoridel som belyser problemstillinger fra oversetterarbeidet. ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
This thesis investigates the supposedly new variety of English, Estuary English (EE). It discusses how changes in British society influence the language in general and how these sociolinguistic correlations are relevant ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
The aim of this thesis has been to study the ideas about female education at the turn of the eighteenth century in the two writers, Jane Austen and Hannah More, who both interpreted education as the development of the whole ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
In the immediate aftermath of the Cold War the United States seemed to move toward a more multilateral foreign policy, yet throughout the 1990s the United States has repeatedly failed to support and promote important United ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
This thesis is an analysis of Jack Kerouac s novels On the Road, The Subterraneans, and The Dharma Bums. The angle is Kerouac s ambiguity and his supposed influence on the countercultural movements of the sixties. Themes ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
Few writers have captured the imagination of their own time, spawning so much criticism, gossip and mythologizing, as Oscar Wilde did. Wilde’s late Victorian era was a time of lively debate on art, gender and sexuality. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis takes a systemic functional approach towards looking at coherence in two expository texts. The aim of this thesis is to explore some of the factors recognized as contributing to text coherence as suggested by ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
The thesis explores the problems of genre in fantasy literature. The first chapter locates a set of problems within modern genre theory and relate them to the genre of fantasy. Some of these problems are the problem of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
What do we mean by "grammar"? How do we teach English grammar today, and why?
In this thesis, I deal with diachronic as well as synchronic aspects, and theoretical as well as practical aspects of the teaching and learning ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
The thesis consists of two parts, a theoretical and an analysis part. Part 1 discusses the idea of intensification, focusing on five English amplifiers: absolutely, completely, entirely, perfectly, and totally. A few ideas ...
Indian immigration and female identity in Bharati Mukherjee's fiction Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
My project focuses on Indian women's experience of immigration in literary works by Bharati Mukherjee. I focus on two novels: Bharati Mukherjee s Wife and Jasmine. How the Indian female immigrant identity changes in the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The present thesis is a corpus-based study of the modal verb shall in present-day English. The study is an attempt to detect potential interdependence between the modal meanings of shall and the lexical verbs combining ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis investigates the status of English in Norway. English is an emerging world language that is increasingly being used as a lingua franca. New technology provides opportunities for contact with English, both ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
The main themes of Paul Auster s The New York Trilogy and The Book of Illusions are identity and quest for meaning. I have applied theories by Giddens, MacIntyre, Eco, and Kermode, to show the importance of narrative ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
How is a writer s personality reflected in his work? In Ernest Hemingway s case, many critics and scholars believe that he used his writing partly as a therapeutic healing of his unstable psyche and his vulnerable self-esteem. ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
In this thesis I have looked at how J. Edgar Hoover came to power as Director of the FBI, and how he later used that power against Attorney General Robert Kennedy and SCLC leader Martin Luther King, Jr. I have further ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
This thesis is essentially a discourse analysis which purports to explore how the discussion and activity of movements such as the Moral Majority may shape public opinion on the necessity of censorship. When studying the ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
In my thesis I examine Jane Austen s indebtedness to her predecessor Samuel Johnson. I attempt to establish moral affinity between these two authors by analysing Austen s novels in the light of the concept of moral education, ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
Moments Seized or Ceased is a thesis presented to the Department of British and American Studies at the University of Oslo Spring term 2002. It is an analysis of two novels by Virginia Woolf, both published in the 1920s, ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
This thesis examines the difference between Jane Austen s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility (1811), and two filmic adaptations by Ang Lee (1995) and Rodney Bennet (1985). The main emphasis is on narrative ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
This thesis seeks to study the interplay between text and production in Oscar Wilde’s play An Ideal Husband (1895). The productions analysed and compared are Kjetil Bang-Hansen’s 1996 staging of the play at Nationaltheatret ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
May-Britt Marthinsen Smith:
Initial ing clauses in English and their translation into Norwegian
Summary
This thesis investigates English non-finite ing forms and the way they are treated in translation into Norwegian. ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
"Fantasy Literature Visiting the Faerie Realm" is a thesis concerning the fantastic aspects of fantasy literature and the way such novels can be interpreted without being seen as allegorical. A brief history of fantastic ...
The Gothic novel & the formation of a British national identity Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
British national identity was in the process of being defined around the turn of the 19th century, and as the British Empire stretched over oceans and continents, the need to define an essential [ ] [national] character ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Translation aids the dissemination of desired narratives and can in that respect be an integral part of the institution of war. John Steinbeck’s The moon is down (1942) was written to support Allied interests, translated ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Using the rhetorical theory of narrative as developed by James Phelan, most specifically his ethics of the told and ethics of the telling, this thesis approaches three texts: Dave Eggers’ How We Are Hungry, Colum McCann’s ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
This paper uses the framework offered by Systemic Functional Grammar to investigate how Billboard represents and creates the categories of "man" and "woman". Through a process and participant analysis, seen in light of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Ifølge konvensjonene er en god oversettelse en som er likeverdig (ekvivalent) med originalen. Dette forklares gjerne med at leserne av den oversatte teksten skal få den samme opplevelsen av teksten som leserne av originalteksten ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
This thesis, focusing on the diptych unity of Shakespeare s The Winter s Tale, examines the play from the perspective of pastoral tragicomedy. The Winter s Tale seems sharply divided into two halves; one for the most part ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
The terrorist attack in the USA on September 11, 2001, is perhaps the most significant event in recent American history. This thesis is a study of how the Norwegian media covered the most important crisis in the contiguous ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
The Elizabethan explorer Anthony Jenkinson was a legend in his own day, and his extensive travels were celebrated by his contemporaries in both prose and poetry. Jenkinson's travels took him through much of Europe, the ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
This thesis discusses similarities and differences presented in four film adaptations of Hamlet in order to show how film and fiction relate to each other and to show how directors interpret the play. Further, I consider ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
This thesis, "The Chinese in America: A Recently Accepted Old Immigrant Group," aims at testing the hypothesis that the transition of Chinese immigrants into an accepted ethnic group in mainstream America and their influence ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
This study is based on Geoffrey Leech’s claim that the frequency of modal auxiliary verbs has changed over a time span of 30 years (Leech 2002). In addition the diachronic development, Leech points to an interesting ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis deals with three Southern novels: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers and Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote. All were written in the 1940s and 50s, and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Tennessee Williams’ on-stage characters have been given much attention by the critics, yet the off-stage characters that exist only as a memory are sometimes forgotten. The theme homosexuality is shown through Williams’ ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis seeks to explore the concepts of masculinity and homosexuality as literary themes in Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar (1948) and James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956). In both novels we meet protagonists ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The main objective in this thesis is to point out the mechanisms that govern, and have governed, identity formation in the United States as played out in the novel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Looking more closely at ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
This is a paper about Ibsen as a modern playwright;it offers different intrpretations of Ibsen's three plays; in addition there is an analysis of modern dramatic techniques Ibsen uses in order to accomplish his goal-to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
This thesis concerns itself with Don DeLillo s fiction and its relationship to popular culture, especially in the novels White Noise, Running Dog and Underworld. DeLillo is very interested in the so-called white noise , ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
In 1532, William Thynne printed the first edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer. It was also the first time his astronomical prose text, A Treatise on the Astrolabe, appeared in print.
In his treatise, Chaucer ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Første del av denne masteroppgaven er en oversettelse av del to av C. S. Lewis siste roman Till We Have Faces. Handlingen er gjenfortelling av den greske myten om Eros og Psyke. Det særegne ved denne romanen er at Lewis ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
Pope s contemporary critics like John Dennis accused him of being a profane poet . In the course of this essay I want to discuss whether Pope s critics were right, or if they, infuriated by being the target of his biting ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
This thesis explores the narrative technique, with an emphasis on characterisation, used by the Post-Second World War British writer Alan Sillitoe in his debut novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and in the short ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
My major concern has been to reveal how Greene presented his ideas, and to trace them back to history of ideas in the inter war period.
I have focused on a number of interrelated topics including: travel, travel literature, ...
(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 ...
Dealing With Mystery : Imagery in The Violent Bear It Away and Selected Stories by Flannery O'Connor
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
This thesis is an attempt to categorise and examine the most important imagery in Flannery O Connor s novel The Violent Bear It Away (1960), and in six selected short stories from her collections A Good Man Is Hard to Find ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
Setting for Success
John Gay s ballad opera, The Beggar s Opera was staged in London in 1728 and had a run of sixty two performances. It was recognised as being a sharp satire of the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
The thesis focuses on two political speeches (held by Bush and Blair respectively)evolving around the same topic: the justification for the military invasion in Afghanistan October 2001. The two main foci of the linguistic ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
This thesis looks into the concept of otherness as it is presented in Bram Stoker s gothic fantasy, Dracula (1897). Otherness is that which deviates from the know and the acceptable, which is called the self . My ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
The aim of this thesis has been to examine Spenser s A View of the Present State of Ireland in the light of the historical, social and political situation in which it was written. A View was a political statement and it ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
This master thesis deals with the use of the present perfect and the preterite in both English and German. The aim of the investigation is to find out to what extent the use of the present perfect and the preterite vary ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
Langston Hughes dedicated his life to fight for the rights of African Americans. His production was large, and covered all literary genres. This thesis is consentrated on a selection of his articles in the Chicago Defender, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
The starting point for this thesis was an interest in Middle English word order. I was interested in seeing whether there would be any differences in word order patterns between different genres of Middle English texts.
When ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
The basis for my thesis is E. M. Forster’s "A Passage to India" and Hari Kunzru’s "The Impressionist". Forster’s novel was published in 1924 and Kunzru’s in 2002, but although written almost eighty years apart, they describe ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
In this thesis I investigate whether and how John Keats responds to Chaucerian dream poems in his fragmentary work The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream. I begin by examining Chaucer’s reception in the Romantic period, exploring ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
The aim of this thesis is to explore the ways in which the meanings of history, identity, and reality are constructed in Don DeLillo’s Libra and Mao II. While these novels do not deny the existence of “the real”, they ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
In literary theory, literary criticism and in the Western literary canon there is evidence of an exclusion or erasure of a bisexual perspective, and this has also been the case within much of the written history of sexuality ...
Need and dare as marginal modals in present-day American and British English : a corpus-based investigation of syntactic variation Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
NEED and DARE may function as either modal auxiliaries or main verbs. Both syntactic patterns are fully acceptable in present-day English, although there exists some variation in use of the two patterns between the different ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Utgangspunktet for denne masteroppgaven er å undersøke forekomsten av hjemliggjøring og fremmedgjøring i oversettelser mellom dominante og minoritetskulturer før 1950 og etter 2000. Dette undersøkes ut i fra hypotesen om ...
Characterization of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay in Virginia Woolf s To the lighthouse (1927) and Colin Gregg s To the lighthouse (1983) Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
This thesis deals with Virginia Woolf s To the Lighthouse and Colin Gregg s film adaptation of Woolf s novel. My critical concern is to discuss Woolf s novel and Gregg s film. I am particularly interested in characterization ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis explores the relationship between aesthetics and ethics in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, as represented in manifestations of the sublime in the text, conditioned by narrative strategies and reinforced by the ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
The Republican Party's capture of the previously Democratic southern states in presidential elections has been considered one of most important factors in the transformation of American politics after World War II. This ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
The thesis focuses on the evolution of the New Woman in American literature around 1900, who was the first example of a modern woman. The characters studied are Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin s The Awakening (1899) and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
This thesis discusses the various level of Mexican American assimilation into American society since the 1960s. some themes that are dealt with are political protest, development of stereotypes, media's increasing role in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
Abstract
This thesis deals with metaphors and similes in Virginia Woolf s novel To the Lighthouse. The analysis of metaphors was carried out in two ways. First, a frequency analysis was made of like- and as-similes. ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
Sammendrag
Dorian. En imitasjon er en oversettelse av utvalgte kapitler fra Will Selfs roman Dorian. An Imitation (2002). I tillegg til selve oversettelsen består oppgaven av en teoretisk del som belyser ulike utfordringer ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
The aim of this corpus-based contrastive study in lexical semantics is to analyse the use of colour words in English and Norwegian contemporary fictional texts. Some of the key questions are: (a.) Are there any differences ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
George Bernard Shaw s strategies are comprehensive and embrace many aspects of his literary career. The term strategy is not used in its original sense which usually only includes the consciously based choices. In Pierre ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
The main critical concern of this thesis is to discuss how the modern commercial American film adapts a complex Modernist narrative as that of Conrad s 'Heart of Darkness'. This project is complicated by the fact that the ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
Based on the Government and Binding Theory of generative grammar where both Case Theory and Theta Theory require every referential expression to have abstract Case and a thematic role, this study considers the impact of ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
The growth of the Walt Disney Company in all its numerous forms - what might be called the multiple-Disney - is a valuable source for cultural study because it offers an opportunity to trace the evolution of a small ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
There are many possible ways of reading J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series because it has borrowed elements from several genres, ranging from the detective story to the bildungsroman. While recognizing the series as ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
This thesis discusses the representation of Sue Bridehead in Thomas Hardy's novel and the corresponding representation of her in Michael Winterbottom's adaptation. My starting point is the interplay between thematics and ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
This thesis examines theme and thematic progression in fictional and non-fictional translations from English into Norwegian. The theoretical framework is based on insights from Franti ek Dane s model of thematic progression ...
Why so elusive? : A cross-linguistic study of English, Czech and Norwegian connectives. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis is an attempt to investigate to what degree and possibly for what reason the connectives are - seemingly without source - added into texts translated into Czech and Norwegian, and to what degree and for ...