‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This thesis argues that identity through the themes of life, death and loneliness in Monica Ali`s Brick Lane (2006) and In the Kitchen (2009) is fundamental to the novels. Chapter 1 presents Monica Ali as an author. It ...

This thesis observes the use of the prototypically functioning impersonal and objective rhetorical structure of extraposition in a corpus-based study of Norwegian leaners of English. Both contrastive and contrastive ...

The present thesis is a corpus-based contrastive study. It examines the cognate verbs set and sette in English and Norwegian fiction original texts and their translations. The cognates set and sette are both relatively ...