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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
This thesis is concerned with the study of a version of Henry Daniel’s Liber Uricrisiarum found in Gonville & Caius 336/725. The Liber Uricrisiarum is a Middle English elaboration on Isaac Judaeus’ De Urinis, as presented ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
This thesis aims to explore Scottishness in modern Scottish detective fiction. Aiming to
uncover what Scottishness is, it examines to what extent Scottishness is reflected in modern
Scottish detective fiction. It also ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
The American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) published only four small volumes of poetry during her lifetime. When she died her reputation was modest, but since then her poetry has gradually gained respect and popularity ...
Politics of the Tongue: A Reading of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons and Caroline Bergvall's Fig Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis explores the politics of the tongue in Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons (1913) and Caroline Bergvall's Fig (2005). By comparing and contrasting these two poets and their poetry, I investigate the interconnections ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
For this MA thesis I have chosen to investigate the accent known as Estuary English (EE). Even though it is having a massive impact on the development of the English language (especially in Britain) there are few extensive ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Many critics have noted the presence of doubles, or counterparts, in Dickens’s work. These sets of counterparts, which most often consist of two, but sometimes of several, characters, fulfil various functions. While Dickens’s ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2004)
This thesis presents a reading of Graham Greene’s Journey Without Maps (1936) and The Lawless Roads (1939) as an inner, psychological journey, as a search for meaning and a secure sense of self. My claim is, in short, that ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The main focus of this thesis is lexical transfer, avoidance, and the influence Norwegian and Russian languages have on the acquisition of English. It will be claimed that Russians avoid using English phrasal verbs more ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
A very particular, literarily interpretative analysis of the Narrator figure in Christopher Isherwood’s The Berlin Novels, countering the hitherto overly one-sidedly biographical indulgence by critics and exploring instead ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This study is an investigation of the very frequent noun PART, with primary focus on its use in three constructions: TAKE part, PLAY [*] part, and PLAY [*] [*] part. The theoretical framework for the study is rooted in ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
It has been claimed that madness is a “female malady”. This claim has been supported by the fact that women are statistically overrepresented among the mentally ill, as a consequence of their social situation, their limited ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
In this thesis I examine the way the concept of the self and our perception of reality are intertwined in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) and C. S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce (1945), and what similarities and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
This thesis examines four Norwegian-American novels in order to investigate what light they might shed on the urban Norwegian-American immigrant community in Minneapolis. The four novels are A Saloonkeeper’s Daughter by ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The main aim of this thesis is to investigate how the English grammar teaching and learning is carried out in junior secondary school in China, and the role of grammar teaching as the EFL in the general studies’ foundation ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
Jane Austen is famed for her pervasive use of irony. There are many other things one could praise in Jane Austen's writing: Her perfectly crafted plots, her deep understanding of human nature, her true-to-life depictions ...
Romanticising Austen : characterisation in Jane Austen's 'Pride and prejudice' and 'Sense and sensibility', and in Joe Wright and Ang Lee's adaptations Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
In this thesis, I aim to study the realisation of characters in Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. In addition, I also study characterisation in filmic adaptations of the same novels. These ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
This thesis revolves around the issue of how an author's biography contributes to the reception of the work, and how the reception is often drastically influenced on how much the reader knows about the author. This is ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis will analyse how three different literary texts contribute in the discussion of ‘honour’ killings, and how they challenge cultural values and traditions in honour and shame based communities. The literary texts ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis investigates Arundhati Roy’s attitude towards the British colonial legacy in India. This will be examined in a close-reading of her novel The God of Small Things. Most of the novel’s plot occurs in the 1960s ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Denne oppgaven består av to deler: en oversettelse av fem kapitler fra John Greens roman The Fault in Our Stars, og en kommentar til oversettelsen. I kommentardelen diskuterer og forklarer jeg de valgene jeg tok i ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The Israel-Palestine conflict is considered one of the most serious conflicts of our century, not only because of the difficulty in finding a satisfactory solution, but also due to its international outreach. The escalation ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Throughout its life, the superhero genre has been an icon of popular culture. Though it has been profitable and widely-read, it has also always labored under the popular impression that it is simplistic, formulaic, childish, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
Del 1 av oppgaven åpner med en kort forfatterbiografi, for så å plassere Gormenghast-trilogien i sjanger og stil. Deretter følger et kort handlingsreferat og en omtale av det valgte utdraget. En overordnet strategi med ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This thesis will discuss how the dominant mode of communication presented in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, and The Custom of the Country can be labeled a "play of perception." Perception in these ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis explores the narration of self in Virginia Woolf s Orlando: A Biography (1928), Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927). The three novels point to a central problem in modernist fiction in general, and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Geoffrey s Chaucer s Canterbury Tales were never finished, and there is no autograph manuscript of the text in existence. Editors have therefore had to decide on the order in which to arrange the surviving fragments. In ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis will look at the representations, or images, of schizophrenia in Ron Howard s movie A Beautiful Mind, Wally Lamb s novel I Know This Much Is True and Chuck Palahniuk s novel and David Fincher s adaptation of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This study explores the use of new English loanwords in electronic media in Ukraine. The division of the country according to language preferences is tightly connected with the divergence of political views, namely a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The term Estuary English was coined by David Rosewarne in 1984, and has been a topic for discussion ever since, both among linguists and the average Briton. The term refers to a way of speaking that Rosewarne had observed ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
My thesis is a contrastive analysis of delexical uses of two similar verbs, English make and Norwegian gjøre and it contributes to provide a thorough description of the two delexical verbs and to identify the way they are ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis investigates the climate discourse in selected material from the British newspapers the Times and the Guardian, with a view to uncover changes through time (1990 to 2014), as well as differences between the two ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
In accordance with Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980), this thesis explores the various metaphorical expressions for death found in British and American obituaries from September 2014, and analyses their ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
In this thesis, I have attempted to analyze conscience as an ethical phenomenon in Shakespeare’s Richard III and Macbeth. The two plays have often been compared due to many similarities in terms of plot, characters and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
This thesis examines how hybrid cultures develop in urban spaces, and it focuses on the South-Asian diaspora in London. Second generation immigrants often find themselves placed between two very different cultures, and ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
Based on their own writings imparted through diaries and letters, this thesis compares and analyzes three Norwegian immigrant women's experiences on the American frontier, and investigates how these women fit into the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
The aims and goals of this study have been to find out how native speakers of Norwegian and learners of English as a foreign language express gratitude in certain situations. Based on the impression that Norwegians may ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
The aim for my thesis has been to justify the claim I am making, that the narrative techniques employed in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient reflect sensations of fragmentation, alienation, and loss of the sense of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis combines systemic-functional linguistics, stylistics and narrative theory in a study of cohesion, style, narrative technique and visual elements in Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
While Virginia Woolf’s use of unconventional narrative strategies in her novels is well-established, such strategies have, to a large extent, been overlooked with regards to her essays. When it comes to A Room of One’s ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
The Norwegian posture verb stå [English equivalent of stand] is among the most frequently used verbs in Norwegian. It is polysemous and is used in a wide range of contexts. Although it most frequently denotes the position ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis presents an exploration of the representation of gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex mainly in light of the theories of Judith Butler. The focus will be on how the two novels ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
William S. Burroughs’ work is generally regarded as narratives of opposition and revolt. However, in this thesis, I will examine how his socially deviant characters are not exempt from discourses that rely on binary ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2000)
In my thesis I discuss formal aspects of two novels by Toni Morrison. In Song of Solomon I trace the development of the song and other musical metaphors. The proposition I make is that the gradual construction of the song ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
This thesis aims to show all the similarities found between Samuel Richardson’s Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded from 1740 and Charlote Brontë’s Jane Eyre from 1847 in order to find evidence of intertextuality.
Although the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
The first Norwegian edition of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist was published in 1880. This thesis sets out to discover what has become of the novel and its many adaptations in Norway since then. Taking a comprehensive and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
Oppgaven består av oversettelser av to noveller skrevet av den irske forfatteren John McGahern og en kommentar av disse oversettelsene. De to novellene jeg har oversatt, Eddie Mac og The Conversion of William Kirkwood ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis is concerned with the question of what qualities of fictional characters middlebrow readers find compelling. It will be claimed that modernist novelists were less skilled in character creation than were their ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis aims to identify some of the challenges Norwegian learners of English encounter when writing English for academic purposes. To this end, the linguistics and literature section of the Norwegian subcorpus of the ...
Fusion of Poetry and Cinema: A Poetic Study of Maya Deren s Films Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
This MA thesis deals with Maya Deren s six short films seen from a literary perspective. I look at the film through the poetic terms rhythm, imagery, and brevity by comparing the films to how Modernist and Imagist poets ...
Supressing, Emerging, Accepting: Sexuality, Identity and Unrequited Love in 20th Century English Fiction Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The present thesis explores the effects of feminist language planning on written media language, by examining the influence of feminist guidelines on newspaper style manuals and on the work of journalists. Due to space ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis is a cognitive approach to what time reversal can do in a work of fiction. I base my discussion on the close reading of predominantly three texts of absolute time reversal: Martin Amis’ Time’s Arrow, Alejo ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
The aims of this investigation are to create an overview of how Norwegian upper secondary school students use modality markers in formal argumentative essays; if – and if so, which –modality markers the students use; and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
W. B. Yeats’s poem ’The Tower’ has been described by critics as one of his best works, at the same time as the poem has been considered to be directionless and confusing. This thesis argues that the poem’s depiction of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
The purpose of my thesis is to research the usages and preferences of Nordic International Baccalaureate (IB) students with respect to American (AmE) and British English (BrE). The Nordic countries that participated were: ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
A number of facts spurred President Clinton to make a major confrontation with the American tobacco industry. Being in need of funding for his health care plan, Clinton proposed a tax on cigarettes, a move that immediately ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Denne oppgaven diskuterer og behandler konseptene "maskulinitet" og "farskap" i en korthistoriesamling utgitt av Harvey Swados i 1957. Gjennom en grundig lesing av alle åtte historiene i On the Line ønsker jeg å fokusere ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
There are several ways of expressing future time in English. Will + Infinitive is considered to be a neutral future expression. The construction BE going to + Infinitive is especially common in spoken English, where it is ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
In this thesis I examine why the graphic memoir has become such a popular platform for authors to explore their childhood, and how these authors use graphic memoirs in an attempt to understand any trauma that they experienced ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
This thesis investigates the current situation of history education in Northern Ireland. First, it attempts to investigate how the Northern Ireland conflict in taught in Northern Irish schools; and second, if there is ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
This thesis explores the literary, cultural and psychological landscape of the "the other", as the phenomenon has prevailed throughout human history, in varying forms and functions. Employing postcolonial theories (emphasizing ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Første del av denne oppgaven består av oversettelsen av fire noveller fra Anita Desais novellesamling Games at Twilight: Tittelnovellen "Games at Twilight", "The Farewell Party", "Private Tuition by Mr Bose" og "Surface ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Nyoversettelseshypotesen (eng. The Retranslation Hypothesis) prøves på tre tekstutdrag fra tre norske oversettelser av den engelske barneboken Winnie-the-Pooh gjennom en analyse basert på systemisk-funksjonell grammatikk. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis explores some of the roles and functions that trees have in works of imaginative literature, as symbols, as structural elements, and as representations of real trees in the physical world. Whereas most other ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis investigates Tom Stoppard s inclusion of music and other aural effects (including juxtaposed silence) in his stage plays from 1967 to 2015. The analysis includes both diegetic and non-diegetic aural elements ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
In this thesis I employ animal studies theory and criticism to explore the boundaries of the human in contemporary American literature. I argue that there is a need for intersectional analysis within cultural studies, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis seeks to explore the way constructions of animality present problematic discourses of race, gender and human ethnic groups in the Harry Potter series. This is done with special emphasis on the third novel, Harry ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This study looks at how Kim Stanley Robinson s Mars trilogy (1993-96), Iain M. Banks s Culture novel The Player of Games (1988), and John Ringo s novel Live Free or Die (2010) work within the genre of SF to establish and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
In this thesis I examine the current limitations for literature with respect to freedom of speech and self-censorship. I draw a line from the obscenity trials of James Joyce s Ulysses and D. H. Lawrence s Lady Chatterley ...
Don’t mention the war! En kulturbasert analyse av oversettelse av humor i et relevansteoretisk perspektiv. Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Denne masteroppgaven er en korpusbasert undersøkelse av oversettelse av kulturbetinget humor. Fokuset ligger på humoristiske ytringer som refererer til annen verdenskrig i en nyere kontekst etter krigen. Analysen bygger ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the complex relationship Charlotte Brontë s novels have with Europe. It will examine how religion, sexuality and morality, and language are used in order to create a British identity ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Britain s parliamentary system of government has traditionally been characterised by a two-party system, in which the two dominating parties, Labour and Conservatives, have alternated the roles of government and opposition. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis explores modalities of time in Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929), Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays (1970) and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011). It examines how temporality is thematised in story ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
‘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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis explores the intertextual relationship between Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). Wide Sargasso Sea has primarily been read as a protest against the exoticising and ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)
The last decade of the 19th century was a period of great cultural changes in Britain, and especially the role of women was topic of much debate. The New Woman movement was a literary branch that sprang from women's fight ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
When Bunreacht na hÉireann, the Constitution of Ireland, was passed in 1937, the Irish Language had a central position in it, despite its being a marginal minority language in terms of number of speakers and social status. ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
This thesis explores conceptions of authorship and the representation of the author-figure in Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee (1982). It focuses on the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
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 ...
While-clauses in English discourse Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)
This thesis aims to examine Mexican-American identity with regard to two particular factors: immigration and race. First, Mexican immigration has been a contentious topic ever since Mexicans started to migrate to the United ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
The scope of this thesis is to investigate vocabulary and vocabulary development in current textbooks for the English subject in the Norwegian upper secondary school. My hypothesis is that the textbooks do not have a ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
Abstract of thesis:
In my analysis of The End of the Affair (1951), I examine how memory and narrative are presented as problematic existential complexes at work in the story and the discourse. My main claim is that the ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)
This thesis is a comparison of four different novels by four different authors: Nella Larsen s Passing (1929), Zora Neale Hurston s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Toni Morrison s Sula (1973), and Alice Walker s The ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
According to Eugene Nida’s theory of Dynamic Equivalence, the most important aim for translators should be to achieve equivalence in effect between original and translated text. Equivalent effect is achieved when a translated ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
ABSTRACT
This thesis is a twofold attempt at understanding the reception of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses (1988) from a secular and a religious perspective. The Rushdie case has stirred powerful emotions on a ...