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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
The thesis focuses on two political speeches (held by Bush and Blair respectively)evolving around the same topic: the justification for the military invasion in Afghanistan October 2001. The two main foci of the linguistic ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
This thesis looks into the concept of otherness as it is presented in Bram Stoker s gothic fantasy, Dracula (1897). Otherness is that which deviates from the know and the acceptable, which is called the self . My ...
(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 explores the narrative technique, with an emphasis on characterisation, used by the Post-Second World War British writer Alan Sillitoe in his debut novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and in the short ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
This thesis investigates the supposedly new variety of English, Estuary English (EE). It discusses how changes in British society influence the language in general and how these sociolinguistic correlations are relevant ...
Dealing With Mystery : Imagery in The Violent Bear It Away and Selected Stories by Flannery O'Connor
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
This thesis is an attempt to categorise and examine the most important imagery in Flannery O Connor s novel The Violent Bear It Away (1960), and in six selected short stories from her collections A Good Man Is Hard to Find ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
The aim of this thesis has been to study the ideas about female education at the turn of the eighteenth century in the two writers, Jane Austen and Hannah More, who both interpreted education as the development of the whole ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
The aim of this thesis has been to examine Spenser s A View of the Present State of Ireland in the light of the historical, social and political situation in which it was written. A View was a political statement and it ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
Utopian colonies were flourishing in antebellum America, more than a hundred of such colonies were founded in this period by people who wanted to lead a life different from that of the mainstream. Some of the colonies were ...