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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
This thesis is concerned with the study of a version of Henry Daniel’s Liber Uricrisiarum found in Gonville & Caius 336/725. The Liber Uricrisiarum is a Middle English elaboration on Isaac Judaeus’ De Urinis, as presented ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
This thesis aims to explore Scottishness in modern Scottish detective fiction. Aiming to
uncover what Scottishness is, it examines to what extent Scottishness is reflected in modern
Scottish detective fiction. It also ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
The American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) published only four small volumes of poetry during her lifetime. When she died her reputation was modest, but since then her poetry has gradually gained respect and popularity ...
Politics of the Tongue: A Reading of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons and Caroline Bergvall's Fig Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis explores the politics of the tongue in Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons (1913) and Caroline Bergvall's Fig (2005). By comparing and contrasting these two poets and their poetry, I investigate the interconnections ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
For this MA thesis I have chosen to investigate the accent known as Estuary English (EE). Even though it is having a massive impact on the development of the English language (especially in Britain) there are few extensive ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Many critics have noted the presence of doubles, or counterparts, in Dickens’s work. These sets of counterparts, which most often consist of two, but sometimes of several, characters, fulfil various functions. While Dickens’s ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2004)
This thesis presents a reading of Graham Greene’s Journey Without Maps (1936) and The Lawless Roads (1939) as an inner, psychological journey, as a search for meaning and a secure sense of self. My claim is, in short, that ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The main focus of this thesis is lexical transfer, avoidance, and the influence Norwegian and Russian languages have on the acquisition of English. It will be claimed that Russians avoid using English phrasal verbs more ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
A very particular, literarily interpretative analysis of the Narrator figure in Christopher Isherwood’s The Berlin Novels, countering the hitherto overly one-sidedly biographical indulgence by critics and exploring instead ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This study is an investigation of the very frequent noun PART, with primary focus on its use in three constructions: TAKE part, PLAY [*] part, and PLAY [*] [*] part. The theoretical framework for the study is rooted in ...