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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Personification, Adolescence and Ecofeminism: An Exploration of the Greek God Pan as a Symbolic Presence in Early Twentieth Century Children’s Literature Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Gendered Islamophobia is a term used to describe the difference in how Muslim women are affected differently by Islamophobia than Muslim men. This includes how the differences in the portrayal of Muslim women in the media ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis delves deeper into an analysis of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park (1814) and its relevance within the abolitionist discourse. Following Edward Said’s influential work, Culture and Imperialism (1993), Austen’s ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
L vocalisation is a phonetic feature found in many accents of English and other languages across the globe and it has received much attention from researchers in the past decades. In this thesis I investigate how L ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Er similer (f.eks. ballettdansere er som sommerfugler) og metaforer (f. eks. ballettdansere er sommerfugler) forskjellige, eller er metaforer egentlig implisitte similer? I denne studien undersøker jeg dette spørsmålet ved ...
“Work apace”: Ideology and Profit in Two Early Modern Plays Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
English emphasizers and their correspondences in Norwegian Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This master’s thesis identifies and discusses how the roots of Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel Klara and the Sun are grounded in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus. Comparisons are drawn between the two ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The classic novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott was published in 1869 and has been adapted several times to the stage, film, and TV to this day. Through the years, the adaptations have given updated and unique readings ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Abstract A Dream Deferred? Selective Blindness and the American Grammar Book; A Cultural Analysis of the Continuity of Racial Oppression; Selected Writings by James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates Martin Luther King Jr. Racial ...
The Brexit debate Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Verity: Human Rights at the Limits of the Arguable Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis explores the differences of use of resultive conjuncts between advanced Norwegian learners of English and native British and American writer of similar age and educational background. Resultive conjuncts as ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis is a study of two autobiographical ‘matricides’: Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby (2014) and Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal (2011). It engages both texts with Suzette Henke’s ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This study aims to demonstrate how Ashbery’s ekphrastic poem Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975) manages to verbally represent Parmigianino’s painting of the same name, in a manner that in effect bridges our understanding ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis presents an investigation of the mandative subjunctive (MS) and its alternative realizations in four Asian Postcolonial Englishes: Philippine English (PHI), Singapore English (SING), Indian English (IND), and ...
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis explores gender and narrative technique in three Edith Wharton novels: The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and Summer. Women writers before Wharton were often not taken seriously, and this thesis ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis explores the topic of childhood substance abuse from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century and its representation in Victorian and Edwardian children´s literature. The two primary texts analyzed within ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis compares how native speakers of English and Norwegian learners of English use the modal auxiliary MUST and the quasi-modal HAVE TO in order to express different types of modality. The data needed was gathered ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Abstract In my thesis, Stories to Bridge the Borderlands: Anti-Colonial Writing in the Works of Gloria Anzaldúa and Leslie Marmon Silko, I review the complete works of Anzaldúa and Silko. I focus on their seminal pieces ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
There is a common understanding that peace was reached in Northern Ireland with the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) in 1998, which established a devolved consociational or power sharing system of government between the two ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis argues that the poetry of John Donne was propelled by the poet’s deeply held philosophical propositions, among which the existence and triunity of God are chief. Donne understood the unity of one God in three ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
English-medium instruction (henceforth called EMI) refers to the use of English as a language of instruction in settings in which English is not an official language. This phenomenon has started to attract attention from ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
In The Future of Nostalgia, Svetlana Boym describes how by the end of the modern era “the melancholic sense of loss” of nostalgia “turned into a style” (16). Nostalgia as a theme has been widely studied in literature. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis is dedicated to exploring ecofeminist themes in two novels by Alice Walker. Ecofeminism here refers to the theoretical framework that recognizes the interlocking and intersectional nature of oppression. The aim ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The role of women in American politics has never been more discussed than today. By the end of 2016, the United States may have its first woman president, Hillary Rodham Clinton. No woman has ever come as far in American ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis applies the theory of Gothic-postmodernism formulated by Maria Beville to the novels The Secret History by Donna Tartt and Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. As a relatively new theory, Gothic-postmodernism has ...
All that is I see: Why can some characters see the ghost in Hamlet and Macbeth, while others cannot?
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis explores the relationship between literature and psychology. It explores how literature has the capacity to describe different aspects of the psychological phenomenon known as “the hook”. In short, the hook is ...
Dyslexic students’ self-management and coping strategies: A study of Norwegian secondary school students learning English Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The purpose of this study was to look closely at the way Norwegian adolescents with dyslexia coped with learning L2 (English) during their secondary school years, and what coping strategies they used in the regular English ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The story is an explicit motif in Ali Smith’s Hotel World (2001) and How to Be Both (2014), two novels that experiment with the possibilities of narrative voice and explore how the act of storytelling restores the characters’ ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Inhabitants of large post-war council estates are subjected to a double layer of stigma: one attached to the tenure of council housing, and one attached to the specific council estate on which they live. The present thesis ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis discusses The Hunger Games trilogy and film series as gynocentric, motivation driven narratives. For that purpose, the motivation driven narrative is defined and introduced as an opposing end to the androcentric ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Dette er todelt masteroppgave. Den første delen består av min oversettelse av Graham Swifts noveller «Tragedy, Tragedy», «Going Up in the World», «Chemistry» og «Seraglio». Den andre delen er en kommentar til oversettelsen. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
In this thesis I use Carl Jung’s analytical psychology to examine three stories by H.P. Lovecraft. In my discussion of The Call of Cthulhu, I suggest that the figure of Cthulhu be read as a symbol of the objective shadow. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Stance Adverbial Placement Patterns of L2 Learners of English Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The present thesis explores the stance adverbial placement patterns of L2 learners of English from three different L1 backgrounds (i.e. Norwegian, Turkish, and Chinese), focusing on a selection of 20 stance adverbials, ...
The Return of the F-Word? Expressions of Millennial Feminism in Girls, Americanah and Ms. Marvel. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis presents a psychological framework rooted in archetypal criticism, which I have named the “LMD” triad. The triad consists of three distinct yet connected archetypes, namely “Love”, “Madness” and “Death”. Each ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This study looks at how the Norwegian adverb egentlig and its closest equivalents in Norwegian and English, i.e. faktisk, actually and really, are translated in the English–Norwegian Parallel Corpus (ENPC). The aim is to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This study explores the occurrences of code-switching among a group of Bangladeshi bilingual users of Facebook in computer-mediated communication. The alternate use of two or more languages in a single discourse is known ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
In this thesis I aim to expose and explore the ubiquitous presence of discourses of authenticity and nostalgia in American literature, culture and music. For this purpose I outline the reasons and history lying behind ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
This thesis investigates how Muslims are portrayed in the American press by examining the nominal collocates of the adjective Muslim, and the adjectival collocates of the noun Muslim. The dominating approach in this study ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This study will discuss history as essentially a narrative practice. Through omission and selection, the narratives of history can shape what, and who, is considered real. This study is concerned with investigating the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Demonstratives are referring expressions that exist in all languages. English and Norwegian are no exceptions to this rule. Their demonstrative systems are similar in both form and meaning. Perhaps due to their similarities, ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis takes as its main purpose the exploration of Alice Munro's short story collection The View from Castle Rock. In this study, my main interest is to examine the historical consciousness of Castle Rock through an ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis explores how and why literary representation of genderqueer narratives are important through an in-depth analysis of the young adult novel Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin, published in 2016. The thesis ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
In this thesis I will lay out an argument for an implicit intimacy between Hemingway and his reader that runs counter to a great deal of the tired ideas we have about the writer. I will propose that the aesthetic dimension ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis explores nonhuman landscapes in two works of contemporary nature writing, i.e. Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams (1986). A close reading of the texts vis-à-vis ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis examines the way in which the 14th-century poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, articulates its understanding of chivalry. The concept of chivalry was a potent social force throughout the Middle Ages, and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The thesis analyzes and compares how the narrators of "The Awakening" (1899), by Kate Chopin, and "Sister Carrie" (1900), by Theodore Dreiser, represent the selves of the novels’ two protagonists, Edna Pontellier and Carrie ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis explores the relationship between magical animals and didacticism in three texts written for children. Current approaches have dealt extensively with the topics of magic and didacticism in children’s literature, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis explores posthuman re-imaginings of the body in works of feminist speculative fiction. Its main focus is on the representation of the body in Monica Byrne’s novel The Actual Star (2021). The novel’s future ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Basing itself on narrative theory and theories of children’s literature, this thesis considers how the secondary characters and the interpolated tales affect the development of thirteen-year-old Conor, the protagonist in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
There are certain underlying expectations that developed with rock music. Early artists established queer personas and performance styles and expressed themselves as individuals more than those in other genres did. This ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis aimed to investigate how Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017) provides social commentary through representation of racism and discrimination in America. In order to examine this representation, I utilized two different ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis examines the relation between the human and the non-human in two novels by J. M. Coetzee: Waiting for the Barbarians and Life & Times of Michael K. The thesis focuses in particular on the way that the novels ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis re-examines the Scottish migration to the province of Ulster, Ireland in the early seventeenth century, from 1603-1625. The Plantation of Ulster, initiated by the English government in 1609, marked the beginning ...
"They have so much to be afraid of": Exploring Women's Relationship with the Home in the Modern Female Gothic Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Verbal Irony in Literary Discourse Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Abstract The thesis seeks to explore the construction and expression of masculinity in the two American works, Moonlight (2016) a film directed by Barry Jenkins, and James Baldwin’s novel Giovanni’s Room. (1956). Both works ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis explores the ideological frameworks in Roald Dahl´s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Danny the Champion of the World. Through a close reading and with elements from childist theory the thesis discusses ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis is about how shame is a big factor in homosexual relationships. It specifically analyzes the relationship between Oliver and Elio in Call Me by Your Name, a novel written by Andre Aciman. My claim is that the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Through a reading of Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982), and Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019), this thesis attempts to define the genre-characteristics of the biomythography. The ...
”The letter killeth” Religion, Marriage and Gender in Jude the Obscure Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Abstract: This thesis explores Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, focusing on the way Hardy critiqued not only religious institutions and their influence on the institution of marriage to further remain in control in society, ...
Battling the Goodlady: Utilisation of Gothic Devices as Critical Tools in Postcolonial Contexts Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis explores contemporary retellings of the myth of Persephone in the romance genre as a platform where dominant gendered discourses of consent are challenged and disrupted and alternative discourses of sexual ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis explores feminist retellings of Greek myths, paying particular attention to the renegotiated role of the masculinely gendered hero in two contemporary retellings. Within the scope of this thesis, I examine how ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis seeks to explore through a hydro-femininist lens three works within children’s literature: Aaron Becker’s Journey, Carol Lindstrom and Michaela Goade’s Water Protectors and Lucy M. Boston’s The River of Green ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2024)