O ponto de partida para o presente artigo foi a observação de que, num corpo de cerca de 800 textos literários em português, a Literateca, havia consideravelmente mais menções ao vestuário nos textos brasileiros do que nos ...

In this paper I will show that it is possible to extract elements from an embedded root clause in a V2 language, provided that the deleted copy is spelled out in a high position. However, if the embedded clause does not ...

Il tema dell'amicizia in alcuni romanzi di formazione italiani (Moravia, Bassani, Morante) Tema vennskap – som behandlet i 4 italienske dannelsesromaner fra det 20. århundret (Moravia, Bassani, Morante) En “dannelsesroman”, ...

This article argues that it is productive to combine cognitive literary studies and postcolonial criticism, and that this constitutes a new formalist approach. Drawing on insights from cognitive science, it describes how ...

Denne artikkelen tar for seg Agnes M. Wergelands Amerika og andre digte (1912), en glemt, men bemerkelsesverdig utgivelse, som skildrer Amerika med immigrantens blikk. Den første delen etablerer en kulturhistorisk og ...

De grunnleggende bestander er den andre romanen av Michel Houellebecq som ble utgitt i 1998. I denne masteroppgaven har jeg undersøkt autofiksjon i boken. Det egner seg til en studie av den litterære fremstillingen av ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker hvordan unge i Atlanta, Georgia med meksikansk bakgrunn forstår og praktiserer sin meksikanske identitet, hva de selv mener at gjør dem meksikanske, og hvordan de praktiserer sin meksikanske ...

In this thesis I will investigate the relationship between individual and society in three novels by Miguel de Unamuno, Italo Calvino, and Albert Camus. I will do so using a cognitive approach to literature. My point of ...

Dette er todelt masteroppgave. Den første delen består av min oversettelse av Graham Swifts noveller «Tragedy, Tragedy», «Going Up in the World», «Chemistry» og «Seraglio». Den andre delen er en kommentar til oversettelsen. ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker, hvilken rolle det mediale og medialitet har i August Strindbergs verk, samt hvordan disse har formet hans subjektforståelse, naturfilosofi, og estetiske tilnærming. August Strindbergs verk og ...

Sammendrag: Oppgaven har som mål å prøve å redegjøre i hvilken grad utydelig terminologi vedrørende begrepet grammatikk i dagens læreplaner kan være med å påvirke deres måte å undervise grammatikk på. Studien er gjort ...

This paper highlights the importance of a common ground, or tertium comparationis, in order to establish unbiased cross-linguistic equivalence in contrastive studies. Following an outline of the two main types of corpora ...

This paper studies the Royal Society's public rhetoric of science by analysing Brian Cox, whose rise to science prominence corresponded with his period as a Royal Society University Research Fellow from 2005 to 2013. The ...

Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg Kameruns frigjøringsbevegelse (UPC) og dens forgreining i Frankrike i 1950-årene. Etter andre verdenskrig ble det todelte Kamerun administrert av henholdsvis Frankrike og England under FNs ...

Selv om det kommunikative språklæringsparadigmet i lang tid har vært til stede i norske læreplaner, viser undersøkelser at fremmedspråkfaget fremdeles preges av metoder og holdninger knyttet til det pre-kommunikative ...

The study of character and characterization has largely neglected the role of identity in the construction and interpretation of literary characters. Building on insights from classical, rhetorical, and cognitive narratology, ...

Inspired by Nansen’s accounts of Arctic journeys, the child protagonists of Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday (1933) transform the English lake on which they spend their holidays into the scene of an Arctic expedition. This ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker både hvordan Stig Sæterbakkens roman Ikke forlat meg (2009) er fortalt og hvilken effekt den uvanlige fortellingen har på leseren, ved å forene en narratologisk analyse av romanen med en tematisk ...

The aim of this thesis is to investigate to what extent the separate meanings of a lexical unit can affect its semantic prosody. Semantic prosody has become an established concept within the field of corpus linguistics, ...

I denne oppgaven har jeg oversatt Leonid L. Jakhnin sin barnebok «Pappklokketoget» fra russisk til norsk. Første del av oppgaven består av oversettelsen. Del to er en kommentardel, der jeg bruker teori fra oversettelsesfeltet ...

This thesis explores what the US foreign policy of the Obama administrations and the Trump administration towards the People’s Republic of China has consisted of and discusses what the intention behind the administrations’ ...

Writers’ museums often privilege the biographical person of the author rather than their literary works. Here we present a model which can be used not only as a method of analysis, but also as as an inspiration that can ...

I mange år har Cuba hatt ett av de høyeste aborttallene i verden. Gjennom elleve intervjuer med cubanske kvinner om deres syn på seksualitet, kjønnsroller og abort, har jeg hatt som mål å undersøke hvilke faktorer som ...

The aim of this thesis is to investigate to what extent the separate meanings of a lexical unit can affect its semantic prosody. Semantic prosody has become an established concept within the field of corpus linguistics, ...

The American Presidential Election and its debates are exciting to watch. However, one could claim that they also contribute largely to the continued polarisation of the USA and its citizens. After the 2016 election, both ...

L’émancipation des juifs de France en 1791 marque le commencement d’une période d’ascension sociale et économique sans précédent pour la minorité juive en France métropolitaine. Vers la fin du XIXe siècle, la communauté ...

Zusammenfassung In dieser Masterarbeit versuche ich, die Tiergestalten in Franz Kafkas Werken: Die Verwandlung, Schakale und Araber, Ein Bericht für eine Akademie und Josefine die Sängerin / Das Volk der Mäuse, aus ...

The concept of code-switching (the use of two languages in the same unit of discourse) has been studied in the context of music for a variety of language pairings. The majority of these studies have focused on the interaction ...

Ce mémoire vise à élucider la politique européenne de François Mitterrand, président de la République française de 1981 à 1995. Il est focalisé sur l’identification de l’évolution de cette politique, ainsi que les motivations ...

In this thesis I examine how spaces in graphic narratives can act as oppressive forces. I apply a material ecocritical approach to three graphic narratives; Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, Undocumented: ...

Euvres de Louïze Labé Lionnoize (1555) er et av de djerveste verkene skrevet av en kvinne i den franske litteraturhistorien. Det er en liten bok som består av en feministisk tilegnelsesepistel, et allegorisk prosastykke, ...

This study explores the use of simplified spellings on Twitter, with a purpose of analyzing and comparing the use of non-standard spelling between English speakers in the UK and the US. The study further discusses how the ...

Denne oppgaven er en undersøkelse av medieteknologiske motiver i Herman Melvilles «Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street» (1853) og William Gibsons Neuromancer (1984). Jeg diskuterer hvordan Melville og Gibson, ...

The main focus of this thesis is to introduce and offer insight into the new and innovative ways webcomics build on and diverge from their print counterparts, as well as how these new tools can make telling new kinds of ...

This thesis studies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) and Matilda (1988), two of the immensely popular children’s books written by Roald Dahl. It compares the books’ popularity in relation to their didactic function, ...

Quelles solutions de traduction trouvons-nous pour les structures relatives françaises introduites par une préposition et un pronom relatif ? Que révèlent-elles des caractéristiques structurelles en norvégien et en français ...

«The Love of Reading» er tittelen på en redigert versjon av Virginia Woolfs essay «How Should One Read a Book?». Formuleringen henviser til et svært sentralt aspekt ved Woolfs forfatterskap: leselyst. Nærmere bestemt sier ...

The objective with this thesis is to discuss and establish the narrative flexibility of J. R. R. Tolkien’s hobbits. I claim that Tolkien built an inherent flexibility in his hobbit creation in order to allow him to use ...

Abstract The Old English noun phrase displays more variation in word order than its Present-day English equivalent. This study aims to investigate the internal word order of Old English noun phrases, with a view to identify ...

В данной работе представлен анализ творческого наследия Александра Введенского, русского поэта, участника ОБЭРИУ (Объединения Реального Искусства), жившего в первой половине ХХ века. Анализ проведен с использованием ...

This thesis aims to identify and to define all the different linguistic functions that emoji can have in computer-mediated discourse. Emoji are graphical icons, representing attitudes or concepts, that became popular around ...

El presente trabajo gira en torno al concepto de ciudad, a la naturaleza de lo urbano, y a cómo la creación y recreación de los espacios líricos comúnmente asociados al ámbito de la metrópolis se ven representados en la ...

The communicative activity is based on the adjustment between two speakers because the relationship between words and things is not immediate and obligatory (Culioli). In what is said there is always the indicible (‘impossible ...

Nous examinerons dans cette contribution des différences structurales et syntaxiques entre des procédés de topicalisation en français et en norvégien. L’illustration de tels mécanismes se fait sur la base de dislocations ...

Children’s novels like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle and Coraline by Neil Gaiman are important pieces of literature to analyse as their impact and popularity has already ...

El presente estudio trata sobre el fenómeno de la migración subsahariana en la ciudad de Ceuta, territorio que, junto con Melilla, es perteneciente a España. Ambas son las únicas ciudades europeas en la tierra de África. ...

This thesis is an exploration of the connection between fiction literature and the ethics of the human treatment of the domesticated non-human animals who live their lives in constant relation to human society. The fiction ...

This thesis is dedicated to exploring ecofeminist themes in two novels by Alice Walker. Ecofeminism here refers to the theoretical framework that recognizes the interlocking and intersectional nature of oppression. The aim ...

From 1971 to 1974, North Carolina’s growing prison population topped the per capita incarceration rate in the United States. Thus, North Carolina was a pioneer in mass incarceration, a fairly recent phenomenon specific to ...

Abstract This thesis argues that the two poems ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ written by John Keats in 1819 are modelled on the sonnet-form. In this sense they stand as examples of experimentations in ...

Sammendrag Denne oppgaven er en analyse av samtalene i W. G. Sebalds Austerlitz (2001). Jeg vil undersøke flere aspekter ved møtene mellom protagonist og forteller: Hva er det som karakteriserer samtalene og konteksten de ...

Abstract The thesis examines the ecopoetical aspects of Emily Dickinson’s poetry within the framework of Timothy Morton’s environmental aesthetics. The main objective of my enquiry is to investigate the contemporary relevance ...

Oppgaven undersøker hvordan Alberto Moravias forfatterskap konstitueres i norsk offentlighet gjennom de norske utgivelsene. Moravia (1909–1990) var en av nittenhundretallets mest betydelige italienske forfattere og har en ...

Zusammenfassung In dieser Masterarbeit wurde die Reaktion auf die Taaffe-Stremayr'sche Sprachenverordnung in den deutschsprachigen Zeitungen untersucht. Diese Sprachenverordnung wurde 1880 von der Regierung Taaffe für ...

Sammendrag Denne oppgaven undersøker hvordan den amerikanske transcendentalismen har blitt brukt til å lese Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman (1949), og særlig Biff Lomans forandring som et opprør mot kapitalismen. ...

There is a common understanding that peace was reached in Northern Ireland with the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) in 1998, which established a devolved consociational or power sharing system of government between the two ...

Henrik Ibsens Fruen fra havet (1888) og Jon Fosses Nokon kjem til å komme (1996) er to norske dramaer, skrevet med over hundre års tidsrom. På tross av svært ulikt formspråk og utforming av tematikkene finnes det noe som ...

Die Masterarbeit „Eine Inhaltsanalyse über die Darstellung des „Anschlusses“ an das Deutsche Reich 1938 in österreichischen Schulbüchern“ befasst sich mit der Darstellung von dem „Anschluss“ in österreichischen ...

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the two rivaling perspectives of Katniss and the Capitol, in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, to extend our understanding of violence in literature. The violent depictions of the ...

Etter at Emmanuel Macron gikk seirende ut av det franske presidentvalget i mai 2017, erklærte han den 25. november 2017, på den Internasjonale dagen mot vold mot kvinner, at likestilling mellom menn og kvinner skulle være ...

Riassunto. Il cinema italiano ha contribuito in modo straordinario allo sviluppo della settima arte e il regista ferrarese Michelangelo Antonioni è sicuramente stato uno dei registi più innovativi, contribuendo negli anni ...

Denne masteroppgaven er en komparativ studie av to arktiske urfolk: innuene i Québec og samene i Norge. Begge disse urfolkene har opplevd kolonisering av deres landområder og en statlig assimileringspolitikk hvor målet var ...

In dieser Masterarbeit werden die Konsequenzen für die deutsch-norwegische Energiezusammenarbeit untersucht, wenn Deutschland in Zusammenarbeit mit der Energiewende große Teile seiner fossilen Energieversorgung durch ...

This thesis argues that the poetry of John Donne was propelled by the poet’s deeply held philosophical propositions, among which the existence and triunity of God are chief. Donne understood the unity of one God in three ...

This thesis investigates how the front pages of newsprint media presented the national discourse at the outset and peak of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. More specifically, it does so by examining in detail what is given ...

Denne tesen ser nærmere på det litterære monsteret på slutten av 1800-tallet og hvordan den monstrøse kroppen utviklet seg i tre gotiske romaner: "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "The Island of Dr Moreau", og "Dracula"

Abstract In my thesis, Stories to Bridge the Borderlands: Anti-Colonial Writing in the Works of Gloria Anzaldúa and Leslie Marmon Silko, I review the complete works of Anzaldúa and Silko. I focus on their seminal pieces ...

En esta tesis se analiza la representación del ballet, la identidad y la reescritura en la novela Vuelo del cisne (2002) de Rosario Ferré (1938-2016). Hasta ahora las investigaciones acerca de los textos de Ferré más ...

Zusammenfassung Diese Masterarbeit untersucht inwiefern die Bottleneck-Hypothese für norwegische Deutschlerner zutrifft. Dieser Hypothese zufolge bietet das Erlernen von morphologischen Eigenschaften im Fremdsprachenerwerb ...

J.R.R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire are two landmark works in the genre of medievalist fantasy literature. The main argument of this thesis is that, despite the apparent ...

Resumen El 18 de abril de 2018 iniciaron protestas sociales en Nicaragua después del anuncio del presidente Daniel Ortega sobre una reforma a la seguridad social (INSS; Instituto Nicaragüense de la Seguridad Social). Estas ...

Diese Masterarbeit befasst sich mit einer der zentralen Texte aus dem deutschen Hochmittelalter, das Nibelungenlied. Schwerpunkt dieser Arbeit liegt in der Analyse der Betrugs-und Lügenepisoden des Nibelungenlieds und die ...

Abstract The so-called 2015 migration crisis has given rise to many questions at a political level as well as at the human level. These issues have been extensively covered in the media and provoked many reactions of the ...

The autobiographical genre is often associated with notions of truth and verifiable authenticity. South African author J.M. Coetzee puts these notions into question in many of his critical writings. In writing Boyhood ...

Hedging strategies, i.e. downtoning expressions or expressions of tentativeness or possibility, are ubiquitous in most, if not all, languages. However, hedging is often realised differently across languages, making such ...