Summary This study explores how the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 1996, filmed by David Fincher in 1999, treats the themes of identity and religion in an American postmodern cultural context. Fight ...

Summary/Abstract The subject of this thesis is fin de siècle Gothic fiction, more specifically an analysis of issues relating to gender roles and sexuality in this literature. In particular, the thesis focuses on Gothic ...

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 ...

The thesis provides an historical view of the American Lutheran Church in Oslo. It analyzes its nature as an ethnic institution and presents a study of the correlation between ethnic and religious identity among the ...

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. ...

On 28 March 1979 the House of Commons passed a Motion of No Confidence in the Government. It was the first (and only) time since 1924 that a British government had lost such a motion. The result of the following election ...

Jeg har tatt for meg Lídia Jorges roman A Costa dos Murmúrios som omhandler hendelser i Mosambik i tiden før 1974 da diktaturet i Portugal opphørte. Forfatteren viser oss i romanen kolonikrigen i Mosambik gjennom en ...

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 ...