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En kommentert oversettelse av fire noveller av Graham Swift 
Tokle, Trude Kathrin (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Dette er todelt masteroppgave. Den første delen består av min oversettelse av Graham Swifts noveller «Tragedy, Tragedy», «Going Up in the World», «Chemistry» og «Seraglio». Den andre delen er en kommentar til oversettelsen. ...
Commercial Sovereignty - How the East India Company operated a state independently of England in the 17th Century 
Tveit, Magnus Solberg (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
‘Harsh Realities and Stubborn Seeds’ Didacticism in the work of Roald Dahl. 
Eriksen, Sunniva (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis studies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) and Matilda (1988), two of the immensely popular children’s books written by Roald Dahl. It compares the books’ popularity in relation to their didactic function, ...
Building a typology of the linguistic functions of emoji: a cross-linguistic and cross-platform corpus analysis of emoji in conversation 
Escouflaire, Louis Greta G. (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis aims to identify and to define all the different linguistic functions that emoji can have in computer-mediated discourse. Emoji are graphical icons, representing attitudes or concepts, that became popular around ...
Adjective position in Old English from a micro-level perspective 
Halvorsen, Rita (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Abstract The Old English noun phrase displays more variation in word order than its Present-day English equivalent. This study aims to investigate the internal word order of Old English noun phrases, with a view to identify ...
The Perspectives of Others: Raising Perspective Awareness and Enabling Empathic Consideration of Domesticated Non-human Animals in Selected Works of Fiction 
Larsen, Maria Moe (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis is an exploration of the connection between fiction literature and the ethics of the human treatment of the domesticated non-human animals who live their lives in constant relation to human society. The fiction ...
Other-Worldly Storytelling in Alice Walker's The Color Purple and The Temple of My Familiar 
Rønning, Iris Knapperholen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis is dedicated to exploring ecofeminist themes in two novels by Alice Walker. Ecofeminism here refers to the theoretical framework that recognizes the interlocking and intersectional nature of oppression. The aim ...
Newsprint Media’s Power over the Identity Discourse: How were discourses and expressions of national identity presented in the front pages of newsprint media at the outset and peak of the Troubles? 
Nordmo, Live Ekenes (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis investigates how the front pages of newsprint media presented the national discourse at the outset and peak of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. More specifically, it does so by examining in detail what is given ...
The Real World is Where the Monsters Are: The Monstrous Body in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle Gothic 
Starre, Famke Sophie van der (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Denne tesen ser nærmere på det litterære monsteret på slutten av 1800-tallet og hvordan den monstrøse kroppen utviklet seg i tre gotiske romaner: "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "The Island of Dr Moreau", og "Dracula"
“Viewed with Caution”: Rhetoric’s of Violence in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games. 
Olsen, Emma Mizrahi (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the two rivaling perspectives of Katniss and the Capitol, in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, to extend our understanding of violence in literature. The violent depictions of the ...
Ei kommentert omsetting av Reservoir 13 av Jon McGregor. 
Laukeland, Aslaug Haraldsdotter (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Starting at the beginning: a corpus-informed investigation into the verbs 'start' and 'begin' 
Lønne, Celine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The many lives of Hailsham’s famous phrase, the elective dictatorship 
Ranvik, Tonje Sofie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Stories to Bridge the Borderlands: Anti-Colonial Writing in the Works of Gloria Anzaldúa and Leslie Marmon Silko 
Ripoll, Løvetann Thomas (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Abstract In my thesis, Stories to Bridge the Borderlands: Anti-Colonial Writing in the Works of Gloria Anzaldúa and Leslie Marmon Silko, I review the complete works of Anzaldúa and Silko. I focus on their seminal pieces ...
Remaining Divided? - A Sociological Examination of Consociationalism's Impact on Peace and Reconciliation in Contemporary Northern Ireland 
Herseth, Anja (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
There is a common understanding that peace was reached in Northern Ireland with the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) in 1998, which established a devolved consociational or power sharing system of government between the two ...
John Donne: Verse, Love and Unity 
Brunette, Matthew Marcel (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis argues that the poetry of John Donne was propelled by the poet’s deeply held philosophical propositions, among which the existence and triunity of God are chief. Donne understood the unity of one God in three ...
"It feels like yesterday!" Reading Gay Heartbreak in E. M. Forster's Maurice and André Aciman's Call Me By Your Name 
Kastum, Veslemøy (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The representations of migrants in articles shared on Reddit and their related comments. 
Coppin, Jeanne (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Abstract The so-called 2015 migration crisis has given rise to many questions at a political level as well as at the human level. These issues have been extensively covered in the media and provoked many reactions of the ...
Painting with Shades of Grey: The Hero and the Anti-Hero in Medievalist Fantasy Fiction 
Graham, Hannah Nicole (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
J.R.R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire are two landmark works in the genre of medievalist fantasy literature. The main argument of this thesis is that, despite the apparent ...
The Problem of Authority and Verifiable Authenticity in Autobiography: A Study of J.M. Coetzee’s Scenes from Provincial Life 
Niaz, Salma Hesham (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The autobiographical genre is often associated with notions of truth and verifiable authenticity. South African author J.M. Coetzee puts these notions into question in many of his critical writings. In writing Boyhood ...
Staging Creative Experience: 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' by John Keats 
Bell, Tora Andrea Valderhaug (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Abstract This thesis argues that the two poems ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ written by John Keats in 1819 are modelled on the sonnet-form. In this sense they stand as examples of experimentations in ...
Paradox State: A History of Mass Incarceration in North Carolina 1968-1995 
Falkeid, Ina Therese Kristiansen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
From 1971 to 1974, North Carolina’s growing prison population topped the per capita incarceration rate in the United States. Thus, North Carolina was a pioneer in mass incarceration, a fairly recent phenomenon specific to ...
Searching for Selves in The Awakening and The House of Mirth: Toward an Understanding of the Interplay Between Character(ization) and Identity 
Wefring, Andrea Marie Dale (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The study of character and characterization has largely neglected the role of identity in the construction and interpretation of literary characters. Building on insights from classical, rhetorical, and cognitive narratology, ...
The Absence of a Coherent Narrative: Silence, Invisibility and Repetition in the Work of Joan Didion 
Johannessen, Sofie Njålsdatter (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis explores American author Joan Didion’s conceptualization of narrative and life as seen in her non-fictional works, and applies this to two of her fictional narratives, Play It as It Lays (1970) and The Last ...
Committed to Crime: A Corpus-based Study of the Semantic Prosodies of Separate Meanings within Lexical Items 
Russnes, Mathias Skogly (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate to what extent the separate meanings of a lexical unit can affect its semantic prosody. Semantic prosody has become an established concept within the field of corpus linguistics, ...
Committed to Crime: A Corpus-based Study of the Semantic Prosodies of Separate Meanings within Lexical Items 
Russnes, Mathias Skogly (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate to what extent the separate meanings of a lexical unit can affect its semantic prosody. Semantic prosody has become an established concept within the field of corpus linguistics, ...
Spanglish code-switching in Latin pop music: functions of English and audience reception 
Monteagudo, Magdalena Jade (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The concept of code-switching (the use of two languages in the same unit of discourse) has been studied in the context of music for a variety of language pairings. The majority of these studies have focused on the interaction ...
Racial Identity in African American Literature: The Portrayal of Racial Identity in Richard Wright's Black Boy and Native Son 
Elveli, Kaja Berg (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The tools of Webcomics: The “infinite canvas” and other innovations 
Nøding, Håvard Knutsen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The main focus of this thesis is to introduce and offer insight into the new and innovative ways webcomics build on and diverge from their print counterparts, as well as how these new tools can make telling new kinds of ...
Simplified spellings on Twitter: A study of non-standard spellings in the UK and the US 
Berggaard, Mie Søhagen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This study explores the use of simplified spellings on Twitter, with a purpose of analyzing and comparing the use of non-standard spelling between English speakers in the UK and the US. The study further discusses how the ...
Under His Eye. Religion and Social Control in Atwood's Alias Grace and The Handmaid's Tale. 
Åsen, Tonje Rønning (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The Importance of Hobbits: An Assessment of the Function and Flexibility in J. R. R. 
Revdal, Silje Skau (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The objective with this thesis is to discuss and establish the narrative flexibility of J. R. R. Tolkien’s hobbits. I claim that Tolkien built an inherent flexibility in his hobbit creation in order to allow him to use ...
The Essential Female Tragedy: A Study of Motherhood in African American Female Literature 
Bredoch, Nora Cecilie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Literature's Contribution to 'Honour' Killings: Challenging Cultural Values and Traditions 
Aziz, Inaz Mazn Hamza (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 ...
Modalities of Women’s Time in Novels by Nella Larsen, Joan Didion and Jennifer Egan 
Wiig, Frøy Lode (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 ...
Dorothy Allison’s Works: A Critique of the Compulsory Heteronormative Society Restricted Access
Hildre, Ida Helene (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Gentrification in Brooklyn: Pioneers' misbegotten search for community and the emergence of a new socio-economic class. 
Delalovic, Azra (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Story and self: The healing possibilities of anachrony and style in Ali Smith’s Hotel World and How to Be Both 
Sparbo, Hulda Westberg (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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’ ...
Haunting and Derealization: A Study of Historical Representation in the Fiction of Toni Morrison and E. L. Doctorow 
Giæver, Hanna Aurora Pihl (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Demonstratives in Contrast 
Grylling, Jacob Schjerven (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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, ...
The War of the Sexes: Power Hierarchy and Gendered Oppression in Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Alderman’s The Power 
Brooks, Sally Christina Slette (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Cthulhu Waits Dreaming: A Jungian Exploration of Dreams and the Unconscious in the Works of H.P. Lovecraft 
Welsh, Sraddhapa (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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. ...
Quelle Honte: The Anatomy of Shame in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room 
Haugerud, Morten (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Sometimes It’s Not a Switch, It’s a Dial: An analysis of the genderqueer narrative in Symptoms of Being Human, and the effects of genderqueer representation in young adult literature 
Frøyen, Ingeborg Walseth (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
The Android Perspective: The Relationship of Humans-Androids in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and Detroit: Become Human in Terms of Empathic Feelings. 
Perez Acosta, Pamela (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Brexit and Ideology: rendering the referendum. A systemic functional grammar approach to the Brexit discourse in the British Press 
Spiers, Mark Anthony (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
The Gray Area: Literary Representations of Sexual Consent 
Podhorny, Anne-Mette Martine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The Posthuman Subject in M.T. Anderson's Feed and Ernest Cline's Ready Player One Restricted Access
Maurstad, Lillian (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
“Shadowy Objects”: Empathizing with the Posthuman in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go 
Persson, Martin (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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, ...
Two Parts of a Whole – A Study of Sororal Relationships in 19th-Century Literature 
Wiker, Marie Kristianna (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Invented Religions and Realities: Consolation and Contradictions in Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle, Mother Night and Slaughterhouse-Five Restricted Access
Sandberg, Nora Killi (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Mass Incarceration: Punitive Laws that Challenge Equal Rights and Opportunities for all Exploring Americans’ attitudes toward punishment 
Realfsen, Sela Nabeit (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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. ...
Living Otherwise: Transformative Veganism in John M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam-trilogy 
Aas, Mari (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The 79 Group: From Black Sheep to Leadership of the Scottish National Party 
Beauvois, Cécile Suzanne Flore (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Power in the English country house. Inherited genre conventions in modern literature. 
Bannister, Marie Jayne (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Attitudes towards English-medium instruction in higher education: Perspectives from Belgian and Norwegian universities Restricted Access
Buntinx, Natacha Céline (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Searching for Identity in Villette: Charlotte Brontë, Lucy Snowe and the 21st-Century Woman Reader 
Sandal, Hilde Rui (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Trust in the World State: A Study of Trust in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World 
Eskedal, Kristian August Skagen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The Flaws of Utopia: Narrative Ethics in Ursula K. Le Guin's Utopian Fictions 
Vorkinn, Jakop Einbu (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Flesk og duppe: A Descriptive Translation Study on the Subtitling of Extralinguistic Cultural References in the Films Elling and Max Manus 
Bjerkebakke-Westin, Kaja Teresa (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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, ...
Feeling Blue: Nostalgia and Gender in Contemporary Anglophone Retellings of the Bluebeard Fairy Tale 
Rolvsjord, Eirin (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Literary Time Moves in Mysterious Ways - Sophistication and Literary Time: F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck 
Nustad, Vilde Waskaas (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Sadiq Khan's Policies to Combat Poverty and Crime in London 
Panzer, Silje (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Everyday Life and Norwegian Immigration: An Exploration of Cultural Identity 
Johansen, Silje (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The Language of Abortion and Stigma in American Literature Before and After Roe v. Wade 
Ryniec, Julia Karolina (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Dying for Freedom: female agency and suicide in late nineteenth-century American literature 
Kardar, Venus (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
En kommentert oversettelse av Fiona Mozleys Elmet (utdrag) Restricted Access
Natvig, Patricia See Yan (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
They seem to be alike, but it appears that they are not. A contrastive analysis of seem and appear and their Norwegian correspondences. 
Bolstad, Synnøve (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
From ‘car motor’ to ‘fishing boat’: Tracking intermediate learners’ phraseological development by use of association measures 
Evang, Kaja Helchie Sletten Østmo (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
En kommentert oversettelse av to noveller fra Anita Desais Games at Twilight 
Nærum, Ingvild (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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.
En kommentert oversettelse av fire utdrag fra Sebastian Barrys The Steward of Christendom Restricted Access
Fordal, Ingvild Kristine Foslien (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
Discourse markers in written learner English: A corpus-based study of the discourse markers so, like, actually, anyway, well, you know and I mean in written Norwegian learner language 
Sandholtet, Michaela Jenny (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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. ...
A Short Revolution: Formal Innovation and Feminist Critique in Lydia Davis 
Hansen, Anette Erøy (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The Campaign for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts - The Repeal Campaign's Attitudes towards Prostitution and the Women Affected by the Acts. 
Tollan, Mari Nylende (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Ludd-i-Skodden: En kommentert oversettelse av fire kapitler fra Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist 
Aschim, Anne Marie Hovland (Master thesis, Group thesis / Masteroppgave, Gruppeoppgave, 2018)
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. ...
En kommentert oversettelse av utdrag fra Amy Schumers The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo 
Petrova, Karina (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
Imagining Environmental Justice: Challenging Ethnocentric Visions in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses 
Berger, Johanna (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
A Qualitative Study of Southern Baptist and Pentecostal Discourse on Muslims 
Jensen, Jonas Baadstøe (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
The Intelligibility of Norwegian-accented English 
Fossen, Kjersti (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
Goal-oriented and Motivation Driven Narratives in The Hunger Games 
Vida, Mária Magdolna (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
Application of the General Theory of Verbal Humor to texts in The Onion 
Saude, Christian Jarnæs (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Dyslexic students’ self-management and coping strategies: A study of Norwegian secondary school students learning English Restricted Access
Kirilkina, Svetlana (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
Hooked on a Hope of Love: A close reading of “the hook” in Chris Kraus’s I Love Dick and William Corlett’s Now and Then 
Rønning, Kjersti Katrine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
The Origins of the Double Stigma of Large Post-War Council Estates in the UK: 1945 - 1978 
Nordli, Erik (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
(Post)Humanism Outside of Paradice 
Holm, Marlene (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Stance Adverbial Placement Patterns of L2 Learners of English Restricted Access
Cosmos, Muhtar (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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, ...
The Return of the F-Word? Expressions of Millennial Feminism in Girls, Americanah and Ms. Marvel. Restricted Access
Keller, Maren Dahl (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Love, Madness and Death: An Archetypal Disposition 
Kjørsvik, Gry Therese (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
Egentlig, actually. A corpus-based study of the translation of Norwegian egentlig and its English correspondences. 
Grønbeck, Silje Kathrin (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
"The Tremendous Pounding of My Own Blood": Structure, Themes, and the Historical Consciousness of Alice Munro's The View from Castle Rock 
Haugen, Ole-Jørgen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
"Sex and the 21st Century Single Girl: Representations of women and men in Cosmopolitan magazine" 
Aksdal, Vilde Cathrine Senje (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Caught in the Cobweb: Posthuman quandaries in Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams 
Torkaman Momeni, Mehdi (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
Reading Escape and Writing It: Intimacy and Away in the Hemingway Aesthetic 
Burke, David Andrew (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
A Dream Deferred? Selective Blindness and the American Grammar Book; A Cultural Analysis on the Continuity of Racial Oppression; Selected Writings by James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Martin Luther King Jr. 
Røsaker, Christine Benedicte Podhorny (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Abstract A Dream Deferred? Selective Blindness and the American Grammar Book; A Cultural Analysis of the Continuity of Racial Oppression; Selected Writings by James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates Martin Luther King Jr. Racial ...
Verity: Human Rights at the Limits of the Arguable Restricted Access
Olafsen, Marion Regina Eugénie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Modal adverbs of certainty in Australian, British and American English A corpus-based study of the modal adverbs of certainty certainly, surely and no doubt in Australian, British and American English 
Pan, Isabelle (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Growing up with Trauma; Representations of Sexual Trauma in Young Adult Literature 
Wilke, Ingrid Marie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
'It's ridiculous to be so sensitive about the content of fiction': Mirrors, Doubles and Storytelling in Helen Oyeyemi's Mr Fox and Boy, Snow, Bird Restricted Access
Helset, Nora Benedicte Pran (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Glimpses of Utopia: Celebration and queer temporality vs. the tragic gay narrative in post-Stonewall gay fiction 
Dickson, James Armando (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
The Cage of Reality: Nuancing Processes of Identity in James Baldwin’s Fiction 
Bergersen, Regine Lundevall (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
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