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 ...

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 ...

The Republican Party's capture of the previously Democratic southern states in presidential elections has been considered one of most important factors in the transformation of American politics after World War II. This ...

The thesis focuses on the evolution of the New Woman in American literature around 1900, who was the first example of a modern woman. The characters studied are Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin s The Awakening (1899) and ...

In my thesis I have examined how Americans understand the concepts of fairness and equality in relation to affirmative action, and how this differes according to whether the focus is on race or gender. I have looked at the ...

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 ...

The aim of this thesis has been to find out whether using Norwegian rather than English in our English lessons is in fact the rule rather than the exception today, and to find out in which situations Norwegian is used and ...

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 ...

This thesis focuses on the use of folklore in Arthurian literature. In the first chapter I give an introduction to the Arthurian tradition. I then examine the use of folklore in three modern Arthurian works, Alfred Lord ...

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 ...