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(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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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, 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, 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, 2007)
I denne hovedoppgaven analyserer jeg hvordan film blir et middel til å bearbeide sorg i Paul Austers roman The Book of Illusions (2002). Fortelleren i romanen har mistet sin familie, og jeg skildrer i oppgaven hvordan ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
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Kva skjer når eit kristent livssyn kler seg i den modernistiske poesien si drakt?
Utgangspunktet for denne oppgåva er tanken om at det finst ein konflikt i Arnold Eidslott sin poesi, mellom eit kristent og eit ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
Denne oppgaven forsøker å nærme seg spørsmålet om den fremmede. Den gjør det gjennom en lesning av Edmond Jabès’ Un Étranger avec, sous le bras, un livre de petit format, ved å undersøke hvordan den fremmede framstilles i ...
The evolution of "she" : a case study : reviews and an evaluation of the evolutionary approach to language change Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
This case study is in part a critical evaluation of (and departure from) contemporary approaches to the subject of linguistic evolution that are largely modelled on biological analogues and theory, in part a problematisation ...
New ways of being British : issues of race and class in Hanif Kureishi's My beautiful laundrette and The Buddha of Suburbia Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
Hanif Kureishi is a charismatic and outspoken mixed-race writer who is not afraid to provoke an outcry through his work. He was one of the first writers to explore the situations of British Asians and, in several ways, ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
This paper has tried to find out what impact the Christian Right has had on politics in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, and where it stands at the beginning of a new century. The main object is to increase the ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
The last decade of the 19th century was a period of great cultural changes in Britain, and especially the role of women was topic of much debate. The New Woman movement was a literary branch that sprang from women's fight ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
When Bunreacht na hÉireann, the Constitution of Ireland, was passed in 1937, the Irish Language had a central position in it, despite its being a marginal minority language in terms of number of speakers and social status. ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 1992)
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
Utgangspunktet for oppgaven er den helt spesielle stemningen som hersket i tiden rett etter 2. verdenskrig når det gjaldt nordmenns forhold til Sovjetunionen. I de aller fleste lag av befolkningen følte man takknemlighet ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
Som tittelen på oppgaven indikerer: Viktor Pelevin og satiren Omon Ra-Героям советского космса, har jeg tatt utgangspunkt i Viktor Pelevin, en av de mest leste og populære russiske samtidsforfattere. Jeg har sett nærmere ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
This thesis aims to compare and discuss the male fictional characters of two female authors of the Georgian and Regency periods respectively, Fanny Burney and Jane Austen. As a background, I have surveyed briefly the climate ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
In medieval England the outlaw was both an outcast from society while at the same time he was also a hero to many. His heroic status is attested to by the many ballads about various outlaw heroes that were written in the ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
Hva er det som gj¸r at en tekst henger sammen til en enhet og kommuniserer et enhetlig budskap? Dette er selvsagt et komplekst sp¸rsmål, og det er ikke mulig å behandle alt dette i en hovedoppgave. Jeg bestemte meg for å ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
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This study explores how the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 1996, filmed by David Fincher in 1999, treats the themes of identity and religion in an American postmodern cultural context. Fight ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
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The subject of this thesis is fin de siècle Gothic fiction, more specifically an analysis of issues relating to gender roles and sexuality in this literature. In particular, the thesis focuses on Gothic ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
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The main purpose of this thesis is to explore McCarthyism and its legitimacy.This paper will particularly look at the legitimacy of the HUAC investigations, of the loyalty-security programs, and of the FBI ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
The thesis is about texts of travel produced by Americans in the Victorian period. Bayard Taylor wrote travel books where he supposedly reported the facts of his journeys in Africa and the Mediterranean countries. Charles ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
The thesis provides an historical view of the American Lutheran Church in Oslo. It analyzes its nature as an ethnic institution and presents a study of the correlation between ethnic and religious identity among the ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
My main argument is that Pinter, in the course of The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1959), and The Homecoming (1964), explores, inter alia, gender and gendered conflicts in a post-war, western setting. And that ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
Fantastic fiction as a popular literary genre has a wide audience, and has become popular especially since the 1970s as a vehicle for feminist social criticism. Fantastic fiction is often viewed as escapist literature ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
The thesis aims to explore the plotting of six mystery- and crime-thrillers. The texts I have chosen are classics from an increasingly prestigious era of our modern narrative history; the novels are hardboiled and the ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
Dialogues with the Past: Vision, Voice and Writing in Lady Mary Wroht s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621) is an analysis of the first published sonnet sequence by an Englishwoman. In this thesis I stage feminist theory of ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
In this thesis I have studied, through textual analysis, several ways in which the Canadian author Margaret Atwood experiments with the short story form. The approaches I have chosen are, firstly, to analyse some of her ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
In this thesis I have examined a plague treatise in a largely unnoticed manuscript in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, MS 261.
The text is on ff. 9v-19 and belongs to the so-called "Canutus" group of plague tracts. ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
On 28 March 1979 the House of Commons passed a Motion of No Confidence in the Government. It was the first (and only) time since 1924 that a British government had lost such a motion. The result of the following election ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
Jeg har tatt for meg Lídia Jorges roman A Costa dos Murmúrios som omhandler hendelser i Mosambik i tiden før 1974 da diktaturet i Portugal opphørte. Forfatteren viser oss i romanen kolonikrigen i Mosambik gjennom en ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
In this thesis I provide an analysis of the representation of women in the works of Thomas Hardy, with special focus on the female characters in Tess of the d Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1895). The main focus ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
Ikke bare ortodokse marxist-leninister så med sorg på Sovjetunionens oppløsning. I hele sovjetperioden fantes det også patrioter og nasjonalister som støttet aktiv opp om det kommunistiske regimet. Denne uensartede gruppen ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
Denne oppgaven er et forsøk på å se utviklingen av de moderne østslaviske standardspråkene russisk, ukrainsk og hviterussisk i et nytt lys. Den tar utgangspunkt i en forståelse av grammatikkenes grunnleggende betydning for ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
Hovedoppgaven tar sikte på en gjennomgang av de sentrale temaene i Halina Poswiatowskas lyrikk: kjærlighet (Eros) og død (Thanatos), som opptrer som to uatskillelige paralleller. Det ble anvendt to litteraturvitenskapelige ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
This thesis deals with some of Allen Ginsberg's most important poems as expressions of his political thought. I have wanted to explore Ginsberg's political commitment as expressed in his poetry, since it is already well ...
O Conjuntivo nas orações relativas em português comparado com o castelhano e o italiano Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
Denne oppgaven (skrevet på portugisisk) er en studie av bruk av konjunktiv i relativsetninger i moderne portugisisk sammenlignet med kastiljansk (spansk) og italiensk.
Hovedformålet med studien er å forsøke å kartlegge og ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
Med oppl¸sningen av Sovjetunionen har Russland opplevd store samfunnsendringer og blitt stilt overfor ekstralingvistiske realiteter på sv¿rt mange felt. Dette har blant annet vist seg utslagsgivende i det russiske språket ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
Det russiske språket har i likhet med de fleste andre levende naturlige språk i verden gått gjennom store endringer de siste tusen årene. Den mest påfallende utviklingen i slavisk språkhistorie og i russisk spesielt, finner ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2008)
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This thesis analyzes the implementation of affirmative action in higher education with African Americans as its beneficiaries. The thesis has briefly presented the arguments both pro and counter affirmative action ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
The main concern of this thesis is an examination of the themes of morality, economics and power in the work of the American writer E. L. Doctorow. In Doctorow s own words Good fiction is interested in the moral fate of ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
Jakob Lothe’s course “Narrative in Fiction and Film” underlines the vital importance of the whole context of the narrative, whenever telling a story on paper or on the screen. This thesis is a comparison of E. M. Forster’s ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 1996)
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, (1935))