Sammendrag: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RESYMÉ 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...