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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
The main question I structure my investigation around is how society’s sexual mores and conceptions of masculinity influenced the way in which men could be intimate friends in the last part of the nineteenth century and ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
This thesis investigates how the theme of migration and the ensuing quest for home and identity is presented in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem (1928), Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928), and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)
Pope s contemporary critics like John Dennis accused him of being a profane poet . In the course of this essay I want to discuss whether Pope s critics were right, or if they, infuriated by being the target of his biting ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
The aim of this corpus-based contrastive study in lexical semantics is to analyse the use of colour words in English and Norwegian contemporary fictional texts. Some of the key questions are: (a.) Are there any differences ...
(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, 2005)
My major concern has been to reveal how Greene presented his ideas, and to trace them back to history of ideas in the inter war period.
I have focused on a number of interrelated topics including: travel, travel literature, ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)
Based on the Government and Binding Theory of generative grammar where both Case Theory and Theta Theory require every referential expression to have abstract Case and a thematic role, this study considers the impact of ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)
Victimisation
Metaphors in Margaret Atwood s novel Surfacing
by Berit Vike
Metaphors have long ceased to be regarded as purely linguistic expressions, and today metaphors are also a conceptual phenomenon, bridging language ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
Setting for Success
John Gay s ballad opera, The Beggar s Opera was staged in London in 1728 and had a run of sixty two performances. It was recognised as being a sharp satire of the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, ...
(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 ...