I dette arbeidet undersøkes aspekter ved kunstopplevelsen som fundament for en kvalitetsvurdering av den skjønnlitterære teksten. Verket som vurderes er Johan Borgens Lillelord-trilogi. Utgangspunktet er kvalitetsdommen: ...

This thesis is an attempt to discuss a range of interpretations of Joseph Conrad s short novel Heart of Darkness by linking them to the complex meaning of two of the text s main metaphors, light and darkness . Race is ...

This thesis is a comparison of four different novels by four different authors: Nella Larsen s Passing (1929), Zora Neale Hurston s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Toni Morrison s Sula (1973), and Alice Walker s The ...

The thesis aims to investigate how three inter-related dimensions of caring are presented in two selected novels and their film adaptations. The literary texts are A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and The English ...

This thesis analyzes Michael Cunningham s novel The Hours (1998) and Stephen Daldry s film adaptation The Hours (2002) in relation to the novel s intertextual elements. This is not something that is easily done as the ...

This thesis explores concepts of narration, characterization, and intertextuality in Barbara Kingsolver "The Poisonwood Bible." The narrative in this novel is divided between five different narrators, and I examine how ...

In nearly all contexts an English that-clause cannot be directly preceded by a governing preposition. There is no such restriction on the grammatically parallel clause type in Norwegian, the at-clause. This difference ...

THE ENGLISH VILLAGE IN JANE AUSTEN S NOVELS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON EMMA SUMMARY Two Enduring symbols of Englishness are the English village and Jane Austen s novels. Even though I believe that Jane Austen s overriding ...

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 ...