‘Seeming Would Be Quite Enough’ explores theatrical expressions in Little Dorrit (1855-1857) by Charles Dickens. The many borrowings from entertainment culture, ranging from Punch and Judy to circus, add greatly to the ...

Previous research has shown that the use and distribution of a particular linguistic item are motivated by certain discourse situational characteristics. Hence, this study attempts to shed light to on how and to what extent ...

The characters of John Milton’s Paradise Lost are portrayed throughout large parts of the epic poem in acts of speaking. This thesis sets out to demonstrate how speech plays an essential part in the characterisation by the ...

Den første delen av oppgaven består av en oversettelse av novellen ”Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice” fra novellesamlingen The Boat av Nam Le. Den andre delen av oppgaven er en kommentar til ...

Hoveddelen av denne oppgaven består av en oversettelse av Zora Neale Hurstons noveller ”Sweat,” ”The Gilded Six-bits” og ”Spunk,” som ble skrevet på 1920- og 30-tallet. Tekstene har dype røtter i en amerikansk sørstatskultur ...

In this thesis I intend to discuss male identity as constructed through narrative in Toni Morrison’s novels Song of Solomon, Jazz and Love. In all three books, the characters are eager to shape their experiences through ...

Today, English words find their way into the Norwegian language as never before. It is practically impossible to read a newspaper without discovering an English loanword. One way of preserving the Norwegian language is to ...

Oppgaven består av oversettelser av to noveller skrevet av Neil Gaiman, og en kommentardel. Novellene er innenfor sjangeren fantastisk litteratur. Kommentardelen tar for seg relevante problemstillinger, blant annet ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the reasons for enlistment among the Norwegians in America before the Civil War. Another aim was to investigate a part of the Norwegian-American history that has not been examined ...