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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

This thesis explores contemporary literature in light of Kenneth W. Warren s critical study, What Was African American Literature? (2011). It investigates six African American novels published during President Barack Obama ...

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 ...

Since the 1970s the issue of same-sex marriage has been publicly debated in the United States. This debate has lasted for several decades and gone through court cases and ballot measures to find a solution to the question. ...

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 ...

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 ...

What current changes are taking place in the York accent today? What are their causes? This thesis aims to explore change-in-progress in York English among ten females in their mid-tolate twenties. The data was collected ...

This thesis examines the masculinity of the male protagonists, the heroes, in the romance novels Tribute by Nora Roberts and Match Me if You Can by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. The two heroes from these novels are seen as ...

The aim of this thesis is to trace key elements of the poetics that produced The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot’s landmark work of modernist poetry. Part I of the thesis examines the development of the Hulme-Pound-Eliot strand ...

Denne oppgaven består av to deler. Den første delen er min oversettelse av første akt av Scott C. Sickles' skuespill Intellectuals. I den andre delen begynner jeg med å kommentere stilen som assosieres med skuespill før ...

This thesis examines how recent/contemporary horror fiction uses the establishment of reader intimacy and challenges to reader agency in order to create experiences of horror. The discussion focuses on a selection of horror ...

This thesis deals with three works of feminist fiction, two novels and one theatrical play. The three literary works that I will discuss are Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925), Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal (1928) and ...

This study presents a thorough representation of how New Orientalist narrative is evident in Khaled Hosseini ́s The Kite Runner (2003), Susan Froetschel ́s Fear of Beauty (2013), and Trent Reedy ́s Words in the Dust (2011) ...

The role of women in American politics has never been more discussed than today. By the end of 2016, the United States may have its first woman president, Hillary Rodham Clinton. No woman has ever come as far in American ...

Denne masteroppgaven består av to deler. Den første delen er en oversettelse av novellene «Bliss» og «A Birthday» av Katherine Mansfield. Den andre delen er en kommentar til oversettelsen, der jeg diskuterer strategi og ...

Abstract In the following thesis I intend to discuss the two distinct yet related forms of voyage at work in Conrad’s novella. This journey into Dark Africa, I will argue, has both a geographical and a psychological ...

Denne masteroppgaven dreier seg om ordspill i litterær selvoversettelse sammenlignet med ordspill i tradisjonell litterær oversettelse. Selvoversettelse er et felt det er skrevet særdeles lite om, både i norsk og utenlandsk ...

Denne masteroppgava i litterær oversettelse består av to deler. Den første delen består av oversettelsen min av et utdrag fra Trenton Lee Stewarts barne-/ungdomsroman, The Mysterious Benedict Society – kapittel 1, 10 og ...

Fyrste del av denne masteroppgåva består av mine omsetjingar av ni dikt av E. E. Cummings: "love’s function is to fabricate unknownness", "true lovers in each happening of their hearts", "now winging selves sing sweetly", ...

Denne oppgaven består av to deler. Første del er min oversettelse av Katherine Mansfields noveller «The Daughters of the Late Colonel» og «Mr and Mrs Dove». I andre del redegjør jeg kort for min tilnærming til oversettelsen, ...

A Study of the Representation of the Modern British Woman in the Tabloid Newspapers and how her Liberation has affected Contemporary British Society

This thesis seeks to explore how we as readers perceive literary characters who communicate differently than the society they are situated in. By analyzing Herman Melville`s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and Toni Morrison`s ...

Laurence Sterne’s novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, written in the 18th century, was unconventional for its time in terms of structure and narrative mode. The innovativeness of the novel largely ...

This thesis looks at the TV-show I Am Cait to explore Caitlyn Jenner’s transition and to discuss some important implications raised by particular scenes in the show. The thesis argues that the TV-show is specifically made ...

My thesis focuses on the aspects of internal conflicts and feelings of guilt as a lens to read Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and selected short stories from the prose anthology Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams. My aim ...

Despite the fact that Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre in particular is praised by many as a protofeminist work of fiction, there is general consensus amongst literary critics and Brontë biographers as to the socially uncharged ...

This thesis investigates the request realization of L2 speakers of English and aims to give an account of mainly three aspects related to that topic: Which strategy the participants in this study most commonly use, if (and ...

The aim of my thesis is to look at the way in which the theme of alienation is described by the two authors. Dickens and Melville are keen observers of the society they lived in. Both authors give their protagonists no ...

This thesis explores the ways in which Coetzee removes normative authorial guidance in his Disgrace and Elizabeth Costello. The close reading of the novels will focus on their different narrative structure and shared ...

Drawing on data from the two corpora LINDSEI-NO and LOCNEC, this project examines and compares the three discourse markers 'like', 'well' and 'you know' as spoken by Norwegian advanced learners of English (NLEs) and British ...

15 year old Malala Yousafzai caught the world's attention when she was shot in the head on a school bus in Pakistan by members from the terrorist group known as the Taliban. Since that day in 2012, Malala has built a ...

This corpus-based study examines the expression of synthetic diminutives in the often assumed “non-emotive” language of English and the emotive language of Spanish. The topic of diminution is approached through a quantitative ...

Mansfield Park is considered an anomaly among Jane Austen’s novels. The majority opinion seems to be that while her other novels are delightfully ironic and have charming heroines, both irony and charming heroines are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The present thesis is a corpus-based study of euphemisms from a sociolinguistic perspective. The study is an attempt to reveal if there are any differences in the usage of the euphemisms gee, heavens, gosh, flaming, blasted, ...

I denne oppgåva har eg omsatt A giraffe and a Half og eit utdrag frå Don t Bump the Glump! and Other Fantasies av Shel Silverstein til nynorsk. Vidare har eg presentert utfordringane som pregar omsettinga av illustrerte ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The thesis works from the assumption that films produced in Hollywood are important historical documents that can provide interesting comments on changes in U.S. society and culture. Through a comparative analysis of The ...

Den første delen av oppgaven er en oversettelse av kapitlene 8 & 9, samt fem sider med metainformasjon, fra en science-fiction roman fra 1970 ved navn Ringworld. Deretter følger en kommentardel hvor mange av problemstillingene ...

Oppgaven består av to deler. I den første delen har jeg oversatt tre tekster for barn av Robert McCloskey. I den andre delen diskuteres temaer som hjemliggjøring og fremmedliggjøring i barnelitteratur, bruk av dialekt i ...

This thesis is a study of Edith Wharton s Madame de Treymes (1907), The Custom of the Country (1913) and The Buccaneers (1938). These novels deal with transatlantic marriages in The Gilded Age and at the turn of the last ...

This thesis looks into the theme of marriage in George Eliot s novel Middlemarch. It uses narrative theory to explore the power balance and happiness of the marriages through the portrayal by the narrator. The thesis proves ...

This thesis explores the process wherein the audience either rejects or assimilates new literary iterations of previously established characters. It focuses on W.S. Gilbert and Tom Stoppard's subsequent elaborations of ...

The primary aim of this thesis has been to investigate the development of unstressed vowels from early Old English and into the late Old English period, and to tie the observed changes to the later merger of unstressed ...

This thesis explores some of the basic principles of the modern romance, with particular emphasis on the paranormal romance. With the Twilight Saga as an example, in the first chapter, this thesis explores how the feminist ...

In this thesis, I investigate the function of Original Sin in W. H. Auden s political philosophy during and after the Second World War. The analysis is twofold, with a theoretical bridge. In the first chapter I consider ...

This thesis posits that the genre of the male quest romance, highly popular during the British fin de siècle, was a literary response to increased male anxiety during that period. Reading works belonging to this genre, ...

Denne masteroppgaven består av to deler. Første del er min oversettelse av de to første kapitlene i Charles Pallisers roman The Quincunx. I andre del redegjør jeg for Charles Pallisers stil. Deretter kommenterer jeg mitt ...

The aim of this study has been to investigate how and to what extent storytelling is being used as a didactic tool in teaching English to young learners in Ukraine and Norway. It explores Ukrainian and Norwegian teachers ...

An analysis and comparison of thematic and formal elements in the two novels in question.

Using English as a lingua franca is different from using it as a foreign language for communication with native speakers. English as a lingua franca (ELF) can be defined as the use of English among communicators of different ...

This thesis provides an insight to perceptions and practices regarding oral negative feedback in Norwegian upper secondary education, through a triangulation of methods. The thesis confirms previous findings that there are ...

I denne oppgaven har jeg oversatt og kommentert tre noveller av den engelske barnebokforfatteren Philippa Pearce. To av dem, "Miss Mountain" og "The Shadow Cage", er hentet fra samlingen "The Shadow Cage and other tales ...

This thesis seeks to prove that the established reputation of essentialism is undeserved, and argues that Toni Morrison s presentation of religion and spirituality in Beloved (1987) and Paradise (1998) contains both implicit ...

This study compares and contrasts the two contrastive connectors however and imidlertid using material from the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus. The object is to investigate in what respects the two connectors are similar ...

This thesis discusses the literary merits of the science fiction genre through modern genre theory and reception theory, examining what the science fiction genre does that is unique and what it can contribute to the literary ...

This thesis explores three spin-off novels inspired by Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice, Alexandra Potter s Me and Mr Darcy, Shannon Winslow s The Darcys of Pemberley and Maya Slater s The Private Diary of Mr Darcy. Through ...

This study makes use of the Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis (Granger 1996) to examine the differences in use of modal auxiliaries may and might in the interlanguage produced by Norwegian and Japanese learners of English, ...

Abstract Metaphor comprehension in the EFL classroom An investigation of metaphor comprehension in the EFL classroom based on the textbook Targets for Vg1 students in the general education program This master s thesis is ...

This thesis analyzes the interplay between destructiveness in art and destructiveness in the human psyche in Siri Hustvedt's The Blindfold (1993) and What I Loved (2003). In order to examine this relationship, the character's ...

Many EFL learners find it challenging to construct their author identity in English L2 argumentative and academic writing. Learners may present brilliant content by means of inappropriate rhetorical features and fail to ...