This thesis is an attempt to discuss a range of interpretations of Joseph Conrad s short novel Heart of Darkness by linking them to the complex meaning of two of the text s main metaphors, light and darkness . Race is ...

The thesis aims to investigate how three inter-related dimensions of caring are presented in two selected novels and their film adaptations. The literary texts are A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and The English ...

THE ENGLISH VILLAGE IN JANE AUSTEN S NOVELS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON EMMA SUMMARY Two Enduring symbols of Englishness are the English village and Jane Austen s novels. Even though I believe that Jane Austen s overriding ...

The aim of the thesis (Desperately) Seeking the Early Modern Self: The Self, Subjectivity, Modernity and Representation in Shakespeare s Hamlet is to explore the Early Modern self in Hamlet. A host of neo-Marxist new ...

Understanding George Orwell’s famed novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) as a forceful warning about politically destructive forces rather than a future prophecy, the main critical concern of this thesis is to examine the ...

In nearly all contexts an English that-clause cannot be directly preceded by a governing preposition. There is no such restriction on the grammatically parallel clause type in Norwegian, the at-clause. This difference ...

This thesis analyzes Michael Cunningham s novel The Hours (1998) and Stephen Daldry s film adaptation The Hours (2002) in relation to the novel s intertextual elements. This is not something that is easily done as the ...

This thesis explores concepts of narration, characterization, and intertextuality in Barbara Kingsolver "The Poisonwood Bible." The narrative in this novel is divided between five different narrators, and I examine how ...

The high school student body at the International School of Stavanger located in Stavanger, Norway is made up of students from fifteen nations. More than sixty percent of high school students are internationally mobile, ...

In this thesis V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival (1987) and David Dabydeen’s Disappearance (1993) are analysed as accounts of the postcolonial search for identity. Both novels tell stories about main characters who ...