Abstract: The main purpose of this thesis is to explore McCarthyism and its legitimacy.This paper will particularly look at the legitimacy of the HUAC investigations, of the loyalty-security programs, and of the FBI ...

The thesis is about texts of travel produced by Americans in the Victorian period. Bayard Taylor wrote travel books where he supposedly reported the facts of his journeys in Africa and the Mediterranean countries. Charles ...

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 ...

In this thesis I have examined a plague treatise in a largely unnoticed manuscript in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, MS 261. The text is on ff. 9v-19 and belongs to the so-called "Canutus" group of plague tracts. ...

My main argument is that Pinter, in the course of The Birthday Party (1957), The Caretaker (1959), and The Homecoming (1964), explores, inter alia, gender and gendered conflicts in a post-war, western setting. And that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Denne oppgaven (skrevet på portugisisk) er en studie av bruk av konjunktiv i relativsetninger i moderne portugisisk sammenlignet med kastiljansk (spansk) og italiensk. Hovedformålet med studien er å forsøke å kartlegge og ...

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 ...