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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 ...
“Powerful Persuaders”: A Rhetorical Analysis of John Milton’s Characters in Paradise Lost 
Knudsen, Live Benedicte Hvalsbråten (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 ...
Yesterday Killed the Finook: Nostalgia, Masculinity, and Homosexuality in The Sopranos Restricted Access
Arnesen, Øyvind Heide (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Androgyny as a necessity: art, creativity and the interpretation of masculinity in Virginia Woolf’s novels To the Lighthouse and Orlando Restricted Access
Larsen, Lisa Kristine Sveen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Så godt som borte - en kommentert oversettelse av Larry Watsons roman As Good As Gone (utdrag) 
Fonkalsrud, Anne Marte (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Connecting with Joe Sacco Restricted Access
Sollied, Katrine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
Postmodernist Fragmentation and Non-Linearity: An Experience of Time within the Capitalist Framework 
Bendiksen, Kristine Knapkøien (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
Translator-specific patterns in two English translations of Svetlana Alexievich’s Tchernobylskaya Molitva A corpus-assisted study Restricted Access
Khudyakova, Anastasia (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Climate Change in Political Speeches 
Silden, May-Linn (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Biological Destinies. Reproductive Technology, Sexuality and Motherhood in Two Dystopian Novels Restricted Access
Gulestø, Anine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The Metaphysics of Ecofeminist Essayism: Intra-acting with the Essays of Rebecca Solnit & Terry Tempest Williams 
Camp, Audrey Jean (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
Fantastic Feminism: Female Characters in Superhero Comic Books 
Fretheim, Ingrid Marie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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, ...
British Identity and the Royal Navy - Tension between a Fear of Losing Naval Supremacy and Pride in the Royal Navy 
Kristensen, Ida Marie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The Melancholic Woman Writer: Claims to a Melancholic Subjectivity in Margaret Cavendish and Jean Rhys 
Kolle, Henriette Marie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
Political Fairy Tales of the 1930s: The Intertextual Fairy Tale Collections of Peter Davies and Naomi Mitchison Restricted Access
Underdal, Helene Hauglund (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
No Room of Her Own: Struggling Mothers in 21st Century Fiction 
Midtsem, Ingeborg Bruun (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
The Dream and the Looking-Glass: Race and Rhetoric in William Apess and Martin Luther King 
Engsbråten, Elisabet (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Learning for pleasure: A study of language learning, gaming, and game culture 
Nguyen, Thanh Thi Tran (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
Representing the Unrepresentable: Representations of the unreal reality of trauma in graphic narratives 
Færestrand, Siril Sæther (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Caryl Churchill's Dystopian Femininity: Seven Plays from 1971 to 2016 
Folkeson, Marie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
No Critique Fatigue, Not Now Ecocentric Ethics in Contemporary SF Literature Restricted Access
Bjermeland, Monica (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
A Crisis of Identity? The national, religious and political identifications of young Protestant women in Northern Ireland 
Rummelhoff, Helen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
Sexuality and Death in Young Adult Fiction: Representations of Controversial Themes in Popular Contemporary Novels Restricted Access
Nilsen, Åshild Aursjø (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Stories Not Easily Told: Reclaiming the Literary Spinster 
Monsen, Ylva (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
Ikke drikk vannet - en kommentert oversettelse Restricted Access
Madsen, Kine Sofie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
From Douglass to Coates: Religion, Liberation and African American Autobiography 
Everest, Philip Joseph (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
Lukket kiste: En kommentert oversettelse av Sophie Hannahs "Closed Casket" (utdrag) 
Wad, Amalie Trollhaugen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
Aspects of Originality and Revolution in Two Poems of the Lyrical Ballads Restricted Access
Mathiassen, Nadia Celina (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Phraseology in EGP Learning Materials: The Case of Textbooks in Burundi Secondary Schools 
Ahishakiye, Emmanuella (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
Cosmic Landscapes: Daoism and Environmentalism in Ursula K. Le Guin's Utopian Fictions 
Brunskow, Erling Sølvskutt (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
Material Witnesses in the Comics Form: The Testimonies Provided by Joe Sacco’s Representations of Maps and Buildings in Safe Area Goražde and Footnotes in Gaza 
Sandberg, Nora Alvine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
Reading Paradise Lost Through the Eyes of Mary Shelley: Who Dares to be the Judge of Milton’s God? An Evaluation of Frankenstein as a Reader-Response Product 
Lande, Ann Magrith Nesse (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 
Andorsen, Jorid (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
En kommentert oversettelse av Louise Rennisons 'Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging' (utdrag) Restricted Access
Westberg, Pernille Bruvik (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Ideology and change - A Systemic Functional Approach to the Climate Discourse in the British Press 
Aronsen, Ingunn (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 ...
The Role of Trees in Shakespeare, Tolkien, and Atwood 
Jensen, Rune Tveitstul (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 ...
Human Animals: Portable Outrage in Contemporary American Interspecies Narratives 
Dreyer, Julianne (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, ...
Don’t mention the war! En kulturbasert analyse av oversettelse av humor i et relevansteoretisk perspektiv. Restricted Access
Holzerland, Linda (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 ...
From Pure Values to Corruption: The Death of the American Dream A Study of the Process in American Literature 
Hedhili, Soumaya Nadia (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Quiet is hell, I say: The Role of Women Poets in the Development of the Victorian Dramatic Monologue 
Myhre, Cecilie Berg (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
Accent levelling in a “posh pocket” of Yorkshire: a study of current changes in the York accent 
Syvertsen, Ida (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance 
Sandbakken, Asta Margrethe (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
Received Pronunciation and Estuary English in television news broadcasts Restricted Access
Bjørge, Eirin Thomassen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Poetics and The Waste Land: Subjects, Objects and the "Poem Including History" 
Rustom, Wassim (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
Reading Postcolonial Fiction as an Illumination of Human Rights Issues: A Study of Narrative Techniques in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place Restricted Access
Soboh, Neringa (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Law's Fictions: Reading Law as Literature 
Reichelt, Alexandra (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Religion and Gay Marriage: The Use of Religion in the Debate Concerning Same-Sex Marriage in the U.S. 
Røkke, Frida (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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. ...
En kommentert oversettelse av første akt og første del av tredje akt i Lucy Kirkwoods skuespill "Tinderbox" 
Sveindal, Trine Lise (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
"And, like, they said ... well, you know": A corpus-based study of the discourse markers 'like', 'well' and 'you know' in spoken Norwegian learner language and British English 
Sandal, Karoline Lilleås (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
Moral Hostages and Guilty Men 
Brenden, Donna Suzanne Smith (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
J. M. Coetzee's Constructive Ambiguity: A Close Reading of Disgrace and Elizabeth Costello 
Albertsen, Kjetil Elvestad (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
En kommentert oversettelse av Katherine Mansfields noveller «Bliss» og «A Birthday» 
Burø, Elisabeth (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
Sterne’s Influence on Subsequent Literature: Digressions as a Central Technique in Pale Fire, Slaughterhouse-Five, and House of Leaves 
Torstensen, Irene (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
Distinctly Different: “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Sula, and Disability Studies. 
Gilje, Ane (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
Den mystiske Benedictklubben: En kommentert oversettelse av Trenton Lee Stewarts "The Mysterious Benedict Society" (utdrag) Restricted Access
Strømmen, Sigrid Elise (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
En kommentert oversettelse av to noveller fra Katherine Mansfields The Garden Party 
Lahn, Åshild Lappegård (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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, ...
Ei kommentert omsetjing av ni dikt av E. E. Cummings Restricted Access
Langelo, Marita (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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", ...
The Portrayal of the Modern British Woman in the Tabloid Press 
Weisæth, Monica Renée Stenberg (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
A Study of the Representation of the Modern British Woman in the Tabloid Newspapers and how her Liberation has affected Contemporary British Society
“TransJenner” - Exploring the role of Caitlyn Jenner in I Am Cait; an unsolicited spokesperson for the trans community? 
Andresen, Kristian Otterstad (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
Mapping Corrective Itineraries: Charlotte Brontë and Education 
Jones, Marie Flognfeldt (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
Received Pronunciation: its current nature and status Restricted Access
Lund, Kristine Grostad (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The theme of alienation in "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and Bleak House 
Radu, Liliana Angelica (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
Torn Together: An Analysis of Internal Conflict and Feelings of Guilt as Components of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams 
Lui, Elena (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
The Imperceptible Flow: Dialogic Thought and Male intruders in Edith Wharton 
Westby, Daniel Hjerkinn (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
L2 Request Realization, an investigation into interlanguage pragmatics and speech act performance of Norwegian learners of English 
Løseth, Hanna Rodgers (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
What Happens in Afghanistan, Does Not Stay in Afghanistan: Understanding American Literary Representations of Afghanistan Through a New Orientalist Approach 
Dale, Katrine Ørnehaug (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 Cardboard House': A Parallel Study of Identity and Intertextuality in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre 
Staarvik, Marit Jervan (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 ...
Haints and Geeks: How Expectations Shape Contemporary African American Literature 
Tobiasson, Katinka (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
‘One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world!’ A study of personal pronouns, modality and rhetorical devices in a selection of Malala Yousafzai’s speeches. 
Sørmo, Arja Grenager (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
A contrastive study of English and Spanish synthetic diminutives 
Hägg, Anna Theresa (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
Oversett eller oversatt? Ordspill i oversettelse og selvoversettelse 
Olsen, Sara Eline (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 Is Not For You": Reader Agency and Intimacy in Contemporary Horror Fiction 
Hauglid, Aslak Rustad (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
Passive Resistance: Paralysis as Social Criticism in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Sophie Treadwell's Machinal and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. 
Lunde, Kathinka Høiem (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
Rereading Mansfield Park: Discovering Fanny's Imperfections Restricted Access
Bakken, Gry (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
How reliable are online bilingual concordancers? An investigation of Linguee, TradooIT, WeBiText and ReversoContext and their reliability through a contrastive analysis of complex prepositions from French to English 
Genette, Marie Michèle Serge (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Madness & Geography A Study on Voice, Discourse, and Polyphony in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness 
Fraticelli, Miguel Arcangel (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
En kommentert oversettelse av første akt av Scott C. Sickles' skuespill Intellectuals. Restricted Access
Melbye, Synnøve Leifsdatter (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
Hillary Rodham Clinton: The First Feminist Restricted Access
Løberg, Oda Kåsene (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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 ...
A Rhapsody of Words! Word formation in Shakespeare’s neologisms 
Hryn, Mariya (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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. ...
Truth: missing in action? An Appraisal Theory approach to two newspapers' portrayal of the Israel-Palestine conflict. 
Zagorcic, Sejla (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 ...
Insisting on the Self: The Narration of Self as Problem and Premise in Three Novels by Virginia Woolf 
Dvergsdal, Kristina (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 ...
Images of Schizophrenia:The Shattered Minds in A Beautiful Mind, I Know This Much Is True and Fight Club 
Stuestøl, Filippa Emeline Desmeules (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 ...
From L Vocalisation to TH Fronting: A Study of Five Consonant Variables in Estuary English 
Eriksen, Ida Brunsvik (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 ...
The Walking Dead: Representations of Death, the Other and The West 
Fossum, Solveig Olsen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Cloth Ears at Work: Aural Elements in the Theatre Plays of Tom Stoppard 
Sharp, Cameron Andrew (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 ...
Decentring the Wizard: An Analysis of the Constructed Discourses of Animality in the Harry Potter Series 
Haugann, Martine Juritzen (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 ...
Science Fiction and Economic Disparity: A Study of Utopian Longings 
Bambini, Karl Kristian Swane (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 ...
Literature and Self-Censorship – In a Post-Rushdie World 
Nordby, Erik Alexander (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 ...
"Vive l'Angleterre": Exploring the Relationship between Britain and Europe in Charlotte Brontë's Novels 
Strand, Sunniva Sveino (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 ...
We can do something different this time . A study of rhetoric, personal reference, and modality in the vocabulary of David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg at the 2010 leader debates. 
Tørud, Carina Bjerk (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. ...
"Oh my goodness!" A corpus investigation of euphemisms from a sociolinguistic perspective 
Lynneng, Nina Therese Rem (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
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, ...
Ei kommentert omsetting av A Giraffe and a Half og utdrag frå Don't Bump the Glump! and Other Fantasies. Restricted Access
Kornberg, Ida Karin Aarflot (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
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 ...
Body and Soul in Four Poems by John Donne 
Strøm, Mari (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Jack and Doctor Donne: Modern-Day Biographers´ Image of John Donne 
Eibak, Ole Henrik Eng (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
A Comparative Study of the Narrative Techniques in Midnight s Children and The God of Small Things. 
Almestad, Liv Olava (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Verbal Truth versus Truth of Mood: Cultural Imperialism in A Passage to India Restricted Access
Vehmaa, Mia-Kristiina (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
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. ...
Fallen Men in Victorian Literature Restricted Access
Einarsen, Kristian (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
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 ...
Politics of the Tongue: A Reading of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons and Caroline Bergvall's Fig Restricted Access
Robertsen, Hedda Høgby (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 ...
Because for Us There Is No Elsewhere : Pullman, Anti-Theism, and the Republic of Heaven 
Nilsen, Jonas André Sjøveian (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Hunter S. Thompson and The American Carnivalesque 
Pedersen, Ellen Kristine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
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