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 ...

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 ...

This thesis explores the process of gentrification in the United States’ most populous city, and particularly in its largest borough, Brooklyn. This process has brought about a change to the socio-economic composition of ...

This thesis explores how and why literary representation of genderqueer narratives are important through an in-depth analysis of the young adult novel Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin, published in 2016. The thesis ...

Abstract This thesis looks at how shame is depicted in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. In doing so, it looks both at how David, the main character in the novel, experiences his own shame in the moment, and how shame can ...

This study will discuss history as essentially a narrative practice. Through omission and selection, the narratives of history can shape what, and who, is considered real. This study is concerned with investigating the ...

This thesis explores the conditions that constitute and uphold the power hierarchy between the sexes, as emphasized by the two novels The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Power by Naomi Alderman. Both belonging ...

Demonstratives are referring expressions that exist in all languages. English and Norwegian are no exceptions to this rule. Their demonstrative systems are similar in both form and meaning. Perhaps due to their similarities, ...

In this thesis I use Carl Jung’s analytical psychology to examine three stories by H.P. Lovecraft. In my discussion of The Call of Cthulhu, I suggest that the figure of Cthulhu be read as a symbol of the objective shadow. ...

The novels analyzed for this thesis, Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One (2011) and M.T Anderson’s Feed (2002), explore the topic of subjectivity and coming of age in relation to the body and the physical, social and virtual ...

This thesis has explored the identity and legacy that the 79 Group left to the Scottish National Party. The 79 Group was an organization created within the SNP in the aftermath of the Devolution Referendum held in Scotland ...

The English country house is at once a historical reality, an ideal and a trope in literature. Modern novels which incorporate the country house must navigate through the extensive power dynamics that permeate them. This ...

This thesis studies three pairs of sisters in works of literature written and published during the 19th century, namely in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (1811), Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White (1859) and Christina ...

This thesis argues that there are parallels between the situation of women today and Lucy Snowe in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Villette (1853). Based on reception studies, feminist theory and an historically informed close ...

Mass Incarceration: Punitive Laws that Challenge Equal Rights and Opportunities for all explores Americans’ attitudes toward punishment. In order to say something about Americans’ attitudes toward punishment, the U.S. ...

This thesis investigates the climate of media discourse immediately following the Brexit referendum of 2016. More specifically, it does this by examining in detail four editorial articles published by The Guardian and the ...

This thesis is an exploration of the clones in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and, most importantly, their proposed humanness. The first part of the thesis establishes the genre of science fiction and its history, ...

Extralinguistic Cultural References (ECRs) are certain elements in a source culture, which are difficult to translate to the target language. These elements refer to specific concepts in the source culture, such as people, ...

The main goal of this thesis is to show the advantage of further discussion on nostalgia in relation to retellings of fairy tales. I claim that employing Svetlana Boym’s distinction between reflective and restorative ...

This thesis reviews a selection of American works of fiction dating from 1927 to 2017 in order to discuss changes in the way abortion has been written about in American literature before and after Roe v. Wade. The thesis ...

English-medium instruction (henceforth called EMI) refers to the use of English as a language of instruction in settings in which English is not an official language. This phenomenon has started to attract attention from ...

This Master´s Thesis explores selected policies implemented by Sadiq Khan that is based on material from his manifesto prior to the candidate election to become Mayor of London in 2016. A distinct observation prior to the ...

This thesis explores the issue of female suicide and agency in three novels, namely Lillie Devereux Blake’s Fettered for Life; or, Lord and Master. A Story of Today (1874), Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899) and Edith ...

Oppgaven består av to deler. Første del er min oversettelse av et utdrag fra Fiona Mozleys roman Elmet. I andre del redegjør jeg for utfordringene jeg har møtt på i arbeidet med oversettelsen, og hvordan jeg har gått ...

The story is an explicit motif in Ali Smith’s Hotel World (2001) and How to Be Both (2014), two novels that experiment with the possibilities of narrative voice and explore how the act of storytelling restores the characters’ ...

En oversettelse av 'Sale' og 'Scholar and Gypsy' fra Anita Desais Games at Twilight and Other Stories, med kommentar og teori i egen del. Fokus på blant annet stil, lyriske virkemidler og fremmedgjøring.

Denne oppgaven består av to deler. Første del er min oversettelse av fire utdrag fra skuespillet The Steward of Christendom av Sebastian Barry. Andre del er en kommentar til oversettelsen, hvor jeg først redegjør kort for ...

This thesis explores nonhuman landscapes in two works of contemporary nature writing, i.e. Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams (1986). A close reading of the texts vis-à-vis ...

This study is an investigation of which phonetic aspects of Norwegian-accented English that might hinder communication in a situation where English is used as a lingua franca. The study is based on investigating the concept ...

The present thesis explores the stance adverbial placement patterns of L2 learners of English from three different L1 backgrounds (i.e. Norwegian, Turkish, and Chinese), focusing on a selection of 20 stance adverbials, ...

This study looks at how the Norwegian adverb egentlig and its closest equivalents in Norwegian and English, i.e. faktisk, actually and really, are translated in the English–Norwegian Parallel Corpus (ENPC). The aim is to ...

This thesis presents a psychological framework rooted in archetypal criticism, which I have named the “LMD” triad. The triad consists of three distinct yet connected archetypes, namely “Love”, “Madness” and “Death”. Each ...

This thesis takes as its main purpose the exploration of Alice Munro's short story collection The View from Castle Rock. In this study, my main interest is to examine the historical consciousness of Castle Rock through an ...

In this thesis I will lay out an argument for an implicit intimacy between Hemingway and his reader that runs counter to a great deal of the tired ideas we have about the writer. I will propose that the aesthetic dimension ...

Summary This thesis examines the ways in which young adult literature represents sexual trauma inflicted on adolescent protagonists. The appliance of trauma theory to the novels I have chosen shows how trauma is represented ...

In response to Garth Greenwell’s claims that Hanya Yanagihara’s 2015 novel A Little Life is a subversive work of gay literary fiction due to its queer negativity and melodrama, I assert that tragedy has dominated the gay ...

This thesis presents an investigation of discourse markers in written Norwegian learner language. Previous studies indicate that learners of English tend to embrace a style of writing which is influenced by oral language. ...

Denne oppgaven består av to deler. Første del er min oversettelse av fire kapitler fra Lud-in-the-Mist av Hope Mirrlees. Andre del er en kommentar til oversettelsen der jeg redegjør for valg jeg har tatt i oversettelsesprosessen. ...

Denne oppgaven består av to deler. Første del er min oversettelse av fem essayer fra Amy Schumers The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo. I andre del snakker jeg om noen av utfordringene jeg støtte på i min oversettelse og ...

This thesis attempts to follow Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s idea based on what she terms “posthumanist animal studies.” Paul Outka, in drawing on theories of sublimity, trauma, and ecocriticism, sees no possibility for African ...

This study explores differences and similarities in the Southern Baptist and Pentecostal discourse on Islam through a qualitative analysis of the two evangelical news outlets Charisma and the Baptist Press. The first chapter ...

This thesis explores the relationship between literature and psychology. It explores how literature has the capacity to describe different aspects of the psychological phenomenon known as “the hook”. In short, the hook is ...

Inhabitants of large post-war council estates are subjected to a double layer of stigma: one attached to the tenure of council housing, and one attached to the specific council estate on which they live. The present thesis ...

This thesis discusses The Hunger Games trilogy and film series as gynocentric, motivation driven narratives. For that purpose, the motivation driven narrative is defined and introduced as an opposing end to the androcentric ...

The purpose of this study was to look closely at the way Norwegian adolescents with dyslexia coped with learning L2 (English) during their secondary school years, and what coping strategies they used in the regular English ...

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 ...

This thesis explores issues and processes of identity in three pieces of James Baldwin’s fiction: “Going to Meet the Man” (1965), Giovanni’s Room (1956), and Another Country (1962). The point of departure is Baldwin’s ...

This thesis sets out to examine the unstable postmodern narrative as a reflection of the drastic changes in temporality under late capitalism. It examines the postmodern narrative’s lack of a narrative center as a reflection ...

The main focus of this thesis is to discuss how the comics of Joe Sacco can enable a connection between the reader and the distant sufferer we encounter in his work. I will do so by analyzing three different aspects of his ...

In this thesis, I draw parallels between ecofeminist philosophy and quantum physicist Karen Barad’s proposal for a new, performative and posthumanist metaphysics in order to analyse the capacity of ecofeminist essayism to ...

This thesis explores the role of religion as a subject and formal device in male-authored African American autobiographies. The author applies this critical focus to three landmark texts in the black American literary ...

Dette er en todelt oppgave, hvor første del er en oversettelse av 5 kapitler fra Sophie Hannahs kriminalroman «Closed Casket». I andre del har jeg redegjort for valgene jeg tok i løpet av oversettelsesprosessen. Spesielt ...

This thesis explores the representation of melancholia in the autobiographies written by Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) and Jean Rhys (1890-1979). By a close reading of Cavendish’s A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and ...

The main focus of this thesis is to offer new insight into the portrayal of female superheroes in comic books and the ways in which they highlight important feminist issues. I have divided the topic into three chapters, ...

Abstract The present study dealt with six textbooks used to teach English in Burundi secondary schools to find out the extent to which phraseology is part of the taught syllabus. The research also aimed at finding out the ...

Is there a positive correlation between English proficiency and gaming, as well as game culture, among Norwegian learners? The aim of the present study is to answer that question. Previous studies in other countries have ...

This study asks whether an ecocentric ethics in contemporary science fiction can guide our real-world ethics. The ideal ethics and its problem, this thesis clarifies, celebrates otherness as much as egalitarianism and has ...

This thesis explores whether young Protestant women in Northern Ireland are facing a crisis of identity. The personal perceptions of identity for young female Protestants in Belfast, born immediately before or after the ...

This thesis is an exploration of the literary figure of the spinster. The spinster character has historically occupied marginalised roles, consistently defined by negative characteristics. This thesis links this representation ...

This study looks at how Ursula K. Le Guin’s utopian fiction, represented by The Dispossessed (1974) and Always Coming Home (1985) uses Daoism to challenge the traditions of the genre of utopian literature and to present ...

Masteroppgaven er en kommentert oversettelse av Don’t Drink the Water – a comedy in two acts, skrevet av Woody Allen, fra 1966. Første del av oppgaven består av en introduksjon av verk og forfatter, grunnlag for valg av ...

This thesis examines the ways in which Joe Sacco’s representations of maps and of the built environment in his graphic narratives Safe Area Goražde (2000) and Footnotes in Gaza (2009), function as material witnesses which ...

The intent of this thesis is to evaluate how a product of reader-response can be useful as a tool for critical analysis of the literary work it initially was a response to. By reading Frankenstein as the result of ...

Kommentert oversettelse av to utdrag fra Emma Donoghues The Wonder. Første del er min oversettelse, andre del er en kommentar der jeg diskuterer ulike utfordringer jeg kom over i forbindelse med oversettelsesarbeidet, og ...

This thesis explores struggling mothers in three 21st century works of fiction. Studying Lionel Shriver’s novel 'We Need to Talk About Kevin', Emma Donoghue’s novel 'Room' and Jennifer Kent’s film 'The Babadook', I argue ...

This thesis explores the claim that the Victorian dramatic monologue developed into two distinct traditions – the traditional, predominantly male tradition represented by writers such as Browning and Tennyson, and a separate ...