The last decade of the 19th century was a period of great cultural changes in Britain, and especially the role of women was topic of much debate. The New Woman movement was a literary branch that sprang from women's fight ...

When Bunreacht na hÉireann, the Constitution of Ireland, was passed in 1937, the Irish Language had a central position in it, despite its being a marginal minority language in terms of number of speakers and social status. ...

In medieval England the outlaw was both an outcast from society while at the same time he was also a hero to many. His heroic status is attested to by the many ballads about various outlaw heroes that were written in the ...

Det russiske språket har i likhet med de fleste andre levende naturlige språk i verden gått gjennom store endringer de siste tusen årene. Den mest påfallende utviklingen i slavisk språkhistorie og i russisk spesielt, finner ...

The thesis aims to explore the plotting of six mystery- and crime-thrillers. The texts I have chosen are classics from an increasingly prestigious era of our modern narrative history; the novels are hardboiled and the ...

Dialogues with the Past: Vision, Voice and Writing in Lady Mary Wroht s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621) is an analysis of the first published sonnet sequence by an Englishwoman. In this thesis I stage feminist theory of ...

In this thesis I have studied, through textual analysis, several ways in which the Canadian author Margaret Atwood experiments with the short story form. The approaches I have chosen are, firstly, to analyse some of her ...

Fantastic fiction as a popular literary genre has a wide audience, and has become popular especially since the 1970s as a vehicle for feminist social criticism. Fantastic fiction is often viewed as escapist literature ...

Med oppl¸sningen av Sovjetunionen har Russland opplevd store samfunnsendringer og blitt stilt overfor ekstralingvistiske realiteter på sv¿rt mange felt. Dette har blant annet vist seg utslagsgivende i det russiske språket ...

This thesis deals with some of Allen Ginsberg's most important poems as expressions of his political thought. I have wanted to explore Ginsberg's political commitment as expressed in his poetry, since it is already well ...