En esta tesis de maestría se presenta un análisis teatral de la tragedia compleja Crónicas romanas (1968) de Alfonso Sastre. El objetivo de esta investigación es averiguar de qué modo el autor renueva el teatro español ...

Denne masteroppgaven er en lesning av hulemotivet i Tor Ulvens Det tålmodige (1987). Jeg tar her utgangspunkt i fire av diktene fra denne utgivelsen, hvor Ulven skriver om en hule og et hulrom. Ulven-resepsjonen har vært ...

På åttitallet ble Sahelbeltet hardt rammet av tørke, og siden 1984 har flere norske humanitære organisasjoner vært på plass i Mali med ulike former for hjelpearbeid. Mali har ofte blitt trukket frem som et foregangsland ...

Hjalmar Falk og Alf Torp la med sin bok Etymologisk ordbog over det norske og det danske sprog (FT) 1903–06 grunnlaget for den etymolo­giske utforskningen av den eldste delen av det norske ordforrådet. Dette arbeidet ble ...

This Master’s thesis explores the question of how Wall Street, as a special interest group in American political life, was able to translate economic power into political power in the 1990s. The theoretical basis of the ...

The U.S. political framework of environmental institutions, policies, and regulations has been labelled the American Green State. Developed throughout the last five decades, the Green State has considerably contributed to ...

Il faut accepter l’existence absurde afin d’atteindre au bonheur. Dans cette étude, nous poursuivons la thématique du bonheur telle qu’elle se manifeste dans les deux recueils d’essais, L’Envers et l’Endroit et Noces. Ces ...

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, ...

Sinopsis El presente trabajo es un estudio de pragmática, más precisamente sobre ironía, donde el objetivo es echar luz sobre posibles diferencias entre cómo la ironía se emplea en películas británicas y españolas, para ...

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 ...

Hovedtemaet for denne oppgaven er Russlands interesser i Nagorno-Karabakh-konflikten mellom Aserbajdsjan og Armenia. Konflikten eskalerte fra demonstrasjoner til pogromer og til slutt krig på slutten av 1980-tallet og det ...

François-René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) var en forfatter som stod med et ben i den gamle og den nye verden. Oppvokst under l’Ancien régime i Bretagne i 1768, og død under utbruddet av revolusjonen i 1848, dekket hans ...

I oppgaven min gjør jeg en lesning av Tomas Espedals (1961–) Gå. Eller kunsten å leve et vilt og poetisk liv (2006) med utgangspunkt i en interesse som preger både resepsjonen, forskningen og mine lesninger, nemlig interessen ...

Over the last two decades, the number of people living with HIV in Russia has increased dramatically. While other parts of the world severely affected by HIV have been able to significantly reduce transmission rates over ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg kroatiske og serbiske mediers, nærmere bestemt avisene Večernji List og Blics, dekning av 20-års markeringen av militæraksjonen Oluja i 2015. Oppgaven innledes med en oversikt over Kroatias ...

This special issue presents a “crossover” between two strands of contemporary narrative theory: a second-generation cognitive approach that foregrounds the linkage of stories, mind, and the human body; and an unnatural ...

Formålet med denne oppgaven er å se hvorvidt den sardiske litteraturen har utviklet seg fra Grazia Deleddas verk Canne al vento som kom i 1913, frem til de to moderne romanene La vedova scalza (2006) og Accabadora (2009) ...

Denne oppgaven er en motivanalyse av W.G Sebalds "Die Ausgewanderten" (1992), hvor jeg fokuserer på das bucklichte Männlein-motivet og dets forbindelse til bokas problematisering av historieskriving. Das bucklichte Männlein, ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker humorens funksjon i Knut Hamsuns prosa. Flere Hamsun-forskere har tidligere påpekt at Hamsun er humoristisk, men få har undersøkt humoren systematisk. Jeg ønsker dermed å synliggjøre det jeg mener ...

L’étalage des corps saute immédiatement aux yeux à la lecture de "Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats". Il s’agit dès lors dans ce travail d’étudier ses différentes manifestations et de proposer une interprétation de leur ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This thesis explores the ways in which Keri Hulme, in her novel The Bone People, depicts New Zealand as a nation haunted by its repressed colonial past, causing it to suffer from homesickness. This unhomeliness is shown ...

I denne undersøkinga er fokus sett på forgjengarane for Tusten i Vesaas' "Fuglane". Totalt sju karakterar i sju tekster dannar grunnlaget for studien. Av desse er det Botolv, broren til Per Bufast i "Det store spelet" som ...

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 ...

El español es una lengua que se habla en la región de Galicia desde hace siglos. A causa de la situación de bilingüismo por la que está pasando Galicia desde entonces se ha producido una nueva variante del español ...

Monika Fludernik’s Toward a Natural Narratology (1996) develops a detailed historical account of how the textual structures of experientiality identified in the theoretical framework have developed in English fiction since ...

This article is a short synopsis of parts of my monograph, Alvestad (2016), about the Uppsala manuscript, O. nova 546, of Muḥammed Hevāʾī Üskūfī Bosnevī´s literary work Maḳbūl-i ʿārif [Dear to the Wise] from 1631. Thus, ...

Le présent article portera sur l’acquisition du pronom clitique « en » en français langue étrangère/seconde (L2). Ce pronom clitique, qui manifeste une complexité syntaxique considérable, pose nombre de problèmes pour les ...

The present article develops a feminist approach to cognitive narratology on the basis of recent work in embodied cognition. Cognitive narratology does not traditionally consider gender perspectives, for a variety of ...

Cognitive and unnatural approaches to literature take very different stances on the issue of fictionality. While cognitive approaches consider everyday nonfictional and literary fictional narratives to highlight their ...

This article deals with the approach to the dative case in Kajkavian and Štokavian grammars from 1604 to 1859. We concentrate on seventeen grammars, primarily focusing on their presentation of the meaning of the dative ...

This paper presents a model for combining contrastive analysis and interlanguage analysis. It can be seen as an extension of Granger’s (1996) Integrated Contrastive Model, but it explicitly requires a bidirectional parallel ...

Denne teksten ser på hvilken betydning Macrons personlighet og politiske stil har hatt for fransk diplomati og for internasjonal politikk det siste året, med hovedvekt for relasjonen med Donald Trump. Hva slags resultater ...

This chapter discusses metacognitive cross-linguistic awareness in language learning with a focus on Norwegian advanced learners of English. It is argued that even rather proficient language learners can benefit from ...

This paper examines the Russian migration and citizenship regime as encountered by forced migrants from Ukraine who fled to Russia during the period of 2014–2016. Based on legal and other official documents, media articles, ...

Det finnes en lang rekke estetiske verk av svært ulik karakter med beskrivelser og fremstillinger av tuberkulose, som var svært utbredt i Europa på 1800-tallet og frem til medisinen oppdaget årsakene og kunne tilby ...

Det følgende er et utdrag fra kapittelet "Kreft – eller spredningens logikk" i boken Sykdom som litteratur (Bondevik/Stene-Johansen 2011). Det er ett av bokens 13 kapitler som tar for seg hver sin medisinske diagnose og ...

This article explores how migrants were visually presented during the so-called migration crisis in southeast Europe in the fall of 2015. It considers photographs from two public broadcasters’ news portals: Slovenia's ...

The world of Film and TV has consistently and historically misrepresented, restricted or ridiculed on-screen gayness, especially when that gayness has intersected blackness. This thesis presents the Lee Daniels created TV ...

Esta tesina tiene como objetivo investigar qué son las destrezas orales y cómo se manifiestan en el Currículo de las Lenguas Extranjeras nacional y en los manuales Vamos 1 y Vamos 2. Adicionalmente intento averiguar cómo ...

This thesis investigates how history become subject to national elites’ political goals, who use the promotion of certain interpretations of history as a means to forward their political agenda. It examines a case of history ...

El objetivo de esta tesina es investigar cómo la tableta electrónica puede ser un recurso en la enseñanza y si es utilizada en relación al desarrollo de la competencia oral y auditiva en la enseñanza de español como lengua ...

Denne oppgava undersøker Anne Carsons framstilling av Gud, slik den kommer til uttrykk i essayet «Decreation: How Women Like Sappho, Marguerite Porete and Simone Weil Tell God» fra Decreation (2005), samt langdiktet «Book ...

Il presente lavoro parte dal fatto che il successo internazionale della tetralogia "L’amica geniale" di Elena Ferrante è stato di gran lunga superiore al successo riscosso in Italia. Nella tesi verrà analizzato il ruolo ...

This study describes Italian idiomatic expressions with musical lexis compared to Norwegian idioms from the same semantic field. Lexical and semantic criteria are used for the analysis. The corpus created for this purpose ...

This study compares the political discourses of Silvio Berlusconi and Jens Stoltenberg. These two politicians represent different political ideologies and belong to two different countries—and, hence, to different cultures. ...

Denne casestudien handler om mapuche williche-motstanden mot utbyggingen av vannkraftverket Central Hidroeléctrica Osorno, som planlegges av det norske kraftselskapet Statkraft. Utbyggingen planlegges på tradisjonelle ...

Artikkelen er en todelt undersøkelse av hvordan vi kan forstå apostrofiske dikt som ritualistiske. Den første delen tar for seg avgjørende forskjeller mellom Jonathan Cullers apostrofekapittel fra 1981 og hans nye arbeid ...

Summary This thesis examines the ways in which young adult literature represents sexual trauma inflicted on adolescent protagonists. The appliance of trauma theory to the novels I have chosen shows how trauma is represented ...

El tema del presente estudio es la posibilidad de contribuir a la motivación y la formación adaptada en el aula de ELE mediante el conocimiento de tipos de personalidad. El propósito ha sido averiguar la posible relación ...

The present study uses the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus to investigate the frequency and use of indefinite noun phrases as subjects in English and Norwegian. Since subjects in both languages tend to appear clause-initially, ...

In response to Garth Greenwell’s claims that Hanya Yanagihara’s 2015 novel A Little Life is a subversive work of gay literary fiction due to its queer negativity and melodrama, I assert that tragedy has dominated the gay ...

The Ni Una Menos movement emerged in 2015, and rapidly turned into a key political force in Argentine society in the fight for women’s rights, and against gender-based violence. This study seeks to explore the Ni Una Menos ...

Étymologiquement les vocables texte et textile sont issus du même mot d’origine : le verbe latin « texere » qui signifie « tisser ». Les notions de texte et textile sont donc étroitement liées depuis des milliers d’années, ...

Arbeidet er en undersøkelse av naturen i Tove Janssons roman Sommarboken, gjennom en analyse av bokens hovedkarakterers relasjon til den. Hovedspørsmålet som diskuteres er hva naturen betyr i Sommarboken. Undersøkelsen er ...

How are emotions are expressed in Italian and in Norwegian? What are the reasons that cause people to consider Italian a more emotive language compared to the Germanic languages? To answer these questions, two translations ...

Culture is often transmitted in a text through lexemes termed realia words. These words are used to denominate culturally specific objects, but because they are culturally oriented they are very difficult to translate: ...

L’objectif de ce travail est d’étudier l’acquisition du système possessif en français comme L2. Sur la base d’une description comparative des systèmes possessifs en français et en norvégien, nous nous sommes limité ...

In 2016 the author Kjartan Fløgstad criticized the Norwegian reception to the novel The End of Eddy by the French author Édouard Louis, sparking a debate that would culminate in a stand-off between Louis and Fløgstad in ...

This study outlines and tests a method for comparing the use of functional categories consisting of high-frequency 3-grams in original and translated texts. The 3-grams are extracted from a corpus of contemporary English ...

This thesis explores issues and processes of identity in three pieces of James Baldwin’s fiction: “Going to Meet the Man” (1965), Giovanni’s Room (1956), and Another Country (1962). The point of departure is Baldwin’s ...

This thesis examines whether the United States played a significant role in the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is focused around three factors which presumably may have played a role in the demise of the USSR. The first ...

Min masteroppgave, Traduction et terminologie – Analyse justificative de la traduction d’un texte technique, selon la Théorie Interprétative de la Traduction, omhandler oversetting av termer i en teknisk tekst. Teksten som ...

This chapter examines three recent Norwegian debates on translation sparked off by translation reviews, in which the various agents involved in producing translated texts were granted unusual visibility. The case reflects ...

This chapter discusses the interplay between translation and writing in the work of poets who also translate poetry. First, I present the Scandinavian term gjendiktning for the creative rewriting of poetry. I then discuss ...

The ways in which the French author and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) has been portrayed in Norwegian print media have undergone significant changes since she was first introduced to the Norwegian reading ...

The characters of John Milton’s Paradise Lost are portrayed throughout large parts of the epic poem in acts of speaking. This thesis sets out to demonstrate how speech plays an essential part in the characterisation by the ...

Denne oppgaven er en lesning av Inger Christensens sonettkrans Sommerfugledalen, hvor jeg forsøker å kretse inn hvordan det poetiske språket og den poetiske skapelsen kommer til uttrykk i sonettene gjennom å utforske de ...

В данной работе рассматриваются две русские субъективно-модальные частицы же и ведь и их переводные эквиваленты в норвежском языке. Анализируются контексты из русских литературных произведений и их норвежских переводов, ...

Ernst oder lustig, gewöhnlich oder einzigartig – was sind die charakteristischen Merkmale von Koblenz und den Koblenzern? Dieser Frage wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit nachgegangen. Hierfür wurden die Attribute analysiert, ...

This chapter addresses realizations of impoliteness in written discourse thematizing language and identity in Croatian and Montenegrin media (online and print newspapers, and internet forums) from 2010 to 2011. The main ...

Denne oppgaven utforsker utfordringene miljøbevegelsen i Nordvest-Russland står ovenfor. Arbeidet tar utgangspunkt i teori som forsøker å forklare det russiske samfunnet og den russiske miljøbevegelsen. Analysen gjøres i ...

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This article investigates the representation of migration and migrants in Croatian and Serbian public broadcasters’ online portals during the “migrant crisis” in 2015/2016. The study shows that there are similarities in ...

Denne oppgaven har hatt som formål å undersøke rollen til norske frivillige organisasjoner i produksjonen av journalistikk om Latin-Amerika i Norge. Utgangspunktet er mediesituasjonen i Norge de senere årene som viser at ...

This study compares the semantic networks of the verbal prefix u- in two South Slavic languages, Bulgarian (blg.) and Croatian (cro.), in a cognitive linguistics framework using two databases of prefixed verbs drawn from ...

Resumo: Nesta dissertação, pretendemos demonstrar que, nos seus dois livros de crónicas, Ana Paula Tavares entra em ruptura com a representação da mulher angolana enquanto mera entidade coletiva e unívoca. Para tal, a ...

Zusammenfassung Der Heimatbegriff in Jenny Erpenbecks Heimsuchung (2008) Die vorliegende Arbeit ist eine Analyse und hermeneutisch orientierte Interpretation von Jenny Erpenbecks Roman Heimsuchung (2008), hauptsächlich aus ...

Multistability refers to those moments in a narrative when readers are made aware of two mutually exclusive possibilities, conceived as an analogy to the visual illusion of the duck-rabbit, which can be seen either as a ...