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”, ...

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 ...

Up until recently there were as many as three competing Orthodox Churches in Ukraine; the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), and ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Desde la aparición y expansión de uso de las redes sociales en internet es creciente la presencia, difusión y rediseño del microrrelato en soportes alternativos al del papel impreso. Este trabajo consistirá en analizar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Denne oppgaven består av to deler. Første del er en oversettelse av de seks første kapitlene av romanen La Promesse de l’aube (1960) skrevet av Romain Gary. Andre del er en kommentar til denne oversettelsen. Her diskuteres ...

This paper investigates the use of clause-initial constituents prefaced by topic-identifying expressions such as in terms of, in the case of and their Norwegian counterparts. The focus is on the nature, frequency and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

Denne oppgaven er en undersøkelse av sjangre og grenseposisjoner i Anne Carsons Autobiography of Red. Verket tar utgangspunkt i den arkaiske poeten Stesikhoros’ Geryoneis, en gjenfortelling av myten om monsteret Geryon. ...

This thesis will analyse how three different literary texts contribute in the discussion of ‘honour’ killings, and how they challenge cultural values and traditions in honour and shame based communities. The literary texts ...

Med et forfatterskap som rommer over tyve verker utgjør Christiansen en betydningsfull stemme i samtidslitteraturen. Denne analysen er den første lengre akademiske analysen av Rune Christiansens forfatterskap. Med inspirasjon ...

This thesis explores modalities of time in Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929), Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays (1970) and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011). It examines how temporality is thematised in story ...

This article seeks to identify the phonetic correspondence(s) of the digraph <cg> in Old English (OE) and Middle English (ME), assessing a range of sources: the etyma in early Germanic (Gmc) languages, the ...

Esse trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar Materiais Didáticos (MDs) de ensino de Português Brasileiro como Língua Estrangeira (PBLE) no que se refere à forma como pontos-chave da gramática do Português Brasileiro Contemporâneo ...

This thesis explores the process of gentrification in the United States’ most populous city, and particularly in its largest borough, Brooklyn. This process has brought about a change to the socio-economic composition of ...

Eventyrsjangeren har lenge blitt forbundet med enkle plott rensket for skurrende elementer og med konservative budskap som har en moralsk oppdragende funksjon. De fleste oppfatter dessuten eventyret som utelukkende ...

Lawrence Venuti introduserte begrepene “hjemliggjøring” og “fremmedgjøring” for å skille mellom to hovedtyper av oversettelsesstrategier. Mens “fremmedgjøring” innebærer en anerkjennelse av kildespråket og kildekulturens ...

En esta tesis analizo la representación literaria del género, la homosexualidad y las relaciones de poder con base en los personajes primarios/secundarios, y la relación entre ellos, en tres cuentos mexicanos del siglo ...

Oppgaven består av to deler. Første del er min oversettelse av et utdrag fra Fiona Mozleys roman Elmet. I andre del redegjør jeg for utfordringene jeg har møtt på i arbeidet med oversettelsen, og hvordan jeg har gått ...

En esta tesis hago un análisis comparativo entre las novelas La mujer habitada y El intenso calor de la luna de Gioconda Belli cimentando mi modelo argumentativo, esencialmente, en conceptos teóricos de la narratología ...

This article presents the first interpretation of a 5th century proto-Norse runic inscription discovered in 2017 at Øverby, Østfold, Norway: “Cut runes in, skilled iril, for Isni”. The meaning of the word iril is discussed ...

Oppgaven tematiserer det tvetydige forholdet mellom vitalisme og modernitet i Helge Ingstads Pelsjegerliv blandt Nord-Kanadas indianere (1931). Den diskuterer hvordan dette dikotomiske begrepsparet problematiseres i møtet ...

Denne oppgaven er en komparativ motivstudie av barndom, barnet som litterær figur og estetisk erfaring i Walter Benjamins kortprosasamling Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert (1933–1938) og Virginia Woolfs roman To the ...

I denne oppgaven foretar jeg en lesning av Samuel Becketts L’Innommable (1953), hvor jeg ser på romanen som et uttrykk for skrivingens problematikk, med et fokus på dets simultane forhold til ødeleggelse og skapelse, samt ...

Denne masteroppgaven er en undersøkelse av hvordan erfaringen av å bli iakttatt henger sammen med konstitueringen av subjektet i Jean Rhys’ romaner Voyage in the Dark (1934) og Good Morning, Midnight (1937). Fordi romanene ...

With his Reverse Perspective (1919) the Armeno-Russian theologian and mathematician Pavel Florensky denounced the monocular, ‘cyclopean’ vision otherwise seen as the main principle in Renaissance painting. Florensky connected ...

Conceptions of a New Religion. God as Utopia in the Works of J.P. Jacobsen and R.M. Rilke

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published in Boston in 1852, instantly became a phenomenal bestseller in Europe as well as in the USA. This article inquires into the book history of translated fiction in Norway between 1814 and 1857, ...

This thesis explores the issue of female suicide and agency in three novels, namely Lillie Devereux Blake’s Fettered for Life; or, Lord and Master. A Story of Today (1874), Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899) and Edith ...

This thesis is a reading of two contemporary Czech novels, Chladnou zemí (2009) by Jáchym Topol and Strážci občanského dobra (2010) by Petra Hůlová. Through the application of Possible Worlds theory as well an exploration ...

Diese Masterarbeit analysiert die Umgangssprache der Jugendlichen in Graz heutzutage. Im Besonderen wird untersucht, ob die jungen Leute in diesem Sprachgebiet bevorzugt deutsche oder österreichische Wörter und Ausdrücke ...

This article examines the genealogy of Scandinavian influence in France since the early 2000s and the shift in mentalities that has taken place over the last fifteen years or so regarding transparency. The analysis focuses ...

This article establishes a connection between the novel, as a cultural artefact which encourages the exploration of inner perceptions, literary reading, and recent research into interoception in cognitive psychology. ...

This article traces the diachronic development from the Proto Norse demonstrative hinn via the Old Icelandic definite article(s) to the Modern Icelandic article system. This demonstrative gave rise to two distinct article ...

Studies on mind-wandering frequently use reading as an experimental task. In these studies, reading is conceived as a cognitive process that potentially offers a contrast to mind-wandering, because it seems to be task-related, ...

This chapter explores the use of metaphors in the column “Let’s Safeguard Serbian” in the Serbian newspaper Politika in 2015. In this column, adherents of the standard language ideology offered advice about spelling, ...

Denne oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i følgende påstander: (1) Mummibøkenes virkelighetsnivåer er tuftet på idyll og psykologisk realisme, og mens idyllen styrer de tidlige bøkenes virkelighetsfremstilling, preges de senere ...

Reading fiction for pleasure is robustly correlated with improved cognitive attainment and other benefits. It is also in decline among young people in developed nations, in part because of competition from moving image ...

Innskriften på Straumsbrynet er spesiell på den måten at den står på en så pass uvanlig gjenstand som et bryne. Blant annet av denne grunn har forskerne stort sett gått ut fra at det måtte bestå en nær sam men heng mellom ...

Drawing on cognitive linguistic and narratological conceptualisations of “frames” and “framing” (notably Quendler 2008, 2010) and taking up Grishakova’s (2009: 188) notion of frames as “a link between the ‘real-life’ and ...

According to Ernest Gellner’s celebrated definition, nationalism is a political principle that holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent. Based on this definition, Alexander Motyl has declared that ...

This chapter compares frequent four-word lexical bundles in a learner corpus (VESPA) and a native speaker corpus (BAWE), both representing novice academic writing. The frequencies and dispersion of bundles in the two corpora ...

This article examines the staging of children as consumers in the first Danish children’s magazine Ungdommens Ven (1770). By investigating texts that portray children and their use of pocket money, with an emphasis on texts ...