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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)This thesis deals with the strategy use of a group of Norwegian school pupils. The strategies the pupils use for learning English vocabulary are analysed in relation to grades, sex and attitudes towards learning English ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)This thesis is devoted to studying Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Fellowship of the Ring'. Based on an extensive thematic analysis of the novel, it discusses how well Peter Jackson has succeeded in ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)This thesis seeks to study the interplay between text and production in Oscar Wilde’s play An Ideal Husband (1895). The productions analysed and compared are Kjetil Bang-Hansen’s 1996 staging of the play at Nationaltheatret ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)In the immediate aftermath of the Cold War the United States seemed to move toward a more multilateral foreign policy, yet throughout the 1990s the United States has repeatedly failed to support and promote important United ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)This paper has tried to find out what impact the Christian Right has had on politics in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, and where it stands at the beginning of a new century. The main object is to increase the ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)This thesis aims to compare and discuss the male fictional characters of two female authors of the Georgian and Regency periods respectively, Fanny Burney and Jane Austen. As a background, I have surveyed briefly the climate ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne was published in five instalments between 1760 and 1767. The book was an immediate success but was seen as controversial for a long time due to the thorough way in which it flouts the ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)The thesis is about the interrelation of temporal characteristics and narrative technique in the novel The French Lieutenant s Woman, written by the British writer John Fowles in the 1960s. I divide time in the novel into ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)We live in a world where the borders between nations and continents in many ways have become less significant. International co-operation has become a necessity, both in connection with political issues and in international ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)This thesis discusses Beryl Bainbridge s historical novels The Birthday Boys and Every Man for Himself. The first novel concerns itself with Captain Scott s fatal South Pole expedition and the latter with the sinking of ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)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 ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)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 ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)In 1532, William Thynne printed the first edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer. It was also the first time his astronomical prose text, A Treatise on the Astrolabe, appeared in print. In his treatise, Chaucer ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)Thesis Abstract Identity Preservation and Existential Authenticity in a Wartime Setting: The Reality of war in Catch-22, The Man in the High Castle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Gravity s Rainbow This thesis deals with ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)The main themes of Paul Auster s The New York Trilogy and The Book of Illusions are identity and quest for meaning. I have applied theories by Giddens, MacIntyre, Eco, and Kermode, to show the importance of narrative ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)How is a writer s personality reflected in his work? In Ernest Hemingway s case, many critics and scholars believe that he used his writing partly as a therapeutic healing of his unstable psyche and his vulnerable self-esteem. ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)This thesis investigates the supposedly new variety of English, Estuary English (EE). It discusses how changes in British society influence the language in general and how these sociolinguistic correlations are relevant ...
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Dealing With Mystery : Imagery in The Violent Bear It Away and Selected Stories by Flannery O'Connor (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)This thesis is an attempt to categorise and examine the most important imagery in Flannery O Connor s novel The Violent Bear It Away (1960), and in six selected short stories from her collections A Good Man Is Hard to Find ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby seen through two different forms of art - literature and film (Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)This thesis investigates the close connection between film and literature. It analysis three pieces of work - the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and two of its adaptations, one from 1974 directed by Jack ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)I have chosen to compare Laurence Sterne's Book 7 of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey because I found it challenging that several critics have referred to the two texts as quite similar, even to the extent that ...