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 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 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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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) ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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", ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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. ...

As the world commemorates the 400th anniversary of the passing of William Shakespeare, I find it fitting that my thesis examines the Bard’s status as a word coiner and his use of word formation methods to form the neologisms. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 explores the counterintuitive concept of the fallen man in literature from the mid- and late-Victorian period. The fallen man is a concept that has gained almost no attention and space in the novels and reception ...

This thesis seeks to explore the role of cultural imperialism in E.M. Forster s 1924 novel A Passage to India and the reasons that lead to the failure of intercultural communication between the coloniser and the colonised. ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...