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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)This thesis discusses and compares the themes of race, gender and class in Brick Lane by Monica Ali and The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. My main objective is to explore similarities and differences between the three ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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Radical Black Subjectivity A Study of Resistance in African American Female LiteratureRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)This thesis explores the possibilities for resistance for African American female characters within ideologies which favor some identities above others. This will be done through examining two novels from the 21st century, ...
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(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 ...
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Rape and Torture: Depictions of Violence in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace (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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)Denne oppgaven analyserer debutboka, Se questo è un uomo (1947), til den italienske forfatteren Primo Levi (1919-1987). Boka sammenlignes med rapporten som Levi skrev sammen med sin venn doktor Leonardo De Benedetti om de ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)This thesis seeks to prove that the established reputation of essentialism is undeserved, and argues that Toni Morrison s presentation of religion and spirituality in Beloved (1987) and Paradise (1998) contains both implicit ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)Borders are traces, that is to say, they are a form of writing – and thus they are also texts to be read. We often think of that which is on the other side of the border as something unknown, and the border itself also in ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)If literature is an archive of cognitive constellations, then readers can revisit these experiences from different periods and ages. How familiar, however, does a reader have to be with a particular historical context in ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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(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 ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)The intent of this thesis is to evaluate how a product of reader-response can be useful as a tool for critical analysis of the literary work it initially was a response to. By reading Frankenstein as the result of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Abstract This study applies Halliday s Systemic Functional Grammar to text analysis. The readability of Technical English in Norwegian-produced, English as Second Langugage textbooks has been assessed in terms of its ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Abstract Reading literature is often contrasted to the use of digital media in terms of speed. While readers engage slowly with a book, they rush through digital environments at an ever faster pace. This article ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)This thesis is a study of Wordsworth's poetry in the context of pastoral literature. It is made up of two parts. The first is devoted to a general survey of the literary tradition of pastoral. The opening chapter is an ...