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Posthumanist Androids, Animals, and Aliens: Using Science Fiction “Others” to Re-negotiate Human Interactions 
Martin, Mary (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Science fiction has long been a place to reimagine first contact. Sometimes it follows a strictly imperial path, in which civilizations (often inspired by the vestiges of our own colonial past) prove their dominance across ...
Confessions of the Opium-Eating Alice Liddell and Peter Pan 
Ulfat, Nasrin (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis explores the topic of childhood substance abuse from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century and its representation in Victorian and Edwardian children´s literature. The two primary texts analyzed within ...
"A Great House Full of Rooms": Explorations of Literary Tradition and Gender Norms in Three Novels by Edith Wharton 
Lystad, Elise Margarethe (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis explores gender and narrative technique in three Edith Wharton novels: The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and Summer. Women writers before Wharton were often not taken seriously, and this thesis ...
The mandative subjunctive in postcolonial Englishes: A corpus-based study of the mandative subjunctive and its alternative realizations in four Asian postcolonial Englishes 
Bougroug, Siham (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis presents an investigation of the mandative subjunctive (MS) and its alternative realizations in four Asian Postcolonial Englishes: Philippine English (PHI), Singapore English (SING), Indian English (IND), and ...
Echoing Rhythmically in the Mind: Reading Nostalgia in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse 
Knops, Bente (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
In The Future of Nostalgia, Svetlana Boym describes how by the end of the modern era “the melancholic sense of loss” of nostalgia “turned into a style” (16). Nostalgia as a theme has been widely studied in literature. ...
THE SAD WOMAN IN THE ATTIC A Feminist Reading of Disney’s Spatial Dynamics 
Grahl, Jessica Mary (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine two picture book versions of Snow White (2014) and Cinderella (2015) and to argue that they are important texts within the studies of children's literature. Although currently ignored ...
"You Are Not Suited to Serve Your Country, Sir" - The Lavender Scare Purge in the U.S. Armed Forces in the 1950s 
Westeraas, Guro Ferger (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis aims to investigate the arguments and evidence political and military leaders used to justify the armed services’ systematic discrimination of gay men. It does so by focusing on the Lavender Scare purge in the ...
"No one can say I'm soft on crime:" A study of political developments and mass incarceration in the Deep South from the Civil Rights Movement to the 2000s. 
Vistnes, Vilde Norland (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
All that is I see: Why can some characters see the ghost in Hamlet and Macbeth, while others cannot? 
Grøneng, Andrea Agatha Bringaker (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Death, Doubles and Dissociation: Reading Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Bret Easton Ellis’s Lunar Park Through the Lens of Gothic-postmodernism 
Berry, Jessie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis applies the theory of Gothic-postmodernism formulated by Maria Beville to the novels The Secret History by Donna Tartt and Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. As a relatively new theory, Gothic-postmodernism has ...
The Scottish National Party’s case for independence: Scottish independence, and how the SNP have used circumstances to argue why it is the best option for Scotland. Restricted Access
Hammer, Ellen Marie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
The Americanisation of spoken British English: A corpus-based study of the diachronic and synchronic Americanisation of lexis in spoken British English 
Morgner, Lisa-Marie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis presents a twofold investigation of the use of Americanisms in the lexis of spoken British English where both the diachronic and synchronic aspect of Americanisation is examined. Previous research has noted an ...
Explaining Ironic Literary Dialogue: A Comparative Study of Echoic and Pretence Accounts of Verbal Irony Focusing on Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises 
Thorstensen, Werner Rinde (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis tests and compares two post-Gricean accounts of how to explain verbal irony by using them to analyse data from literary texts, primarily Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises. The first of these accounts explains ...
The Female Body in Atwood’s Gilead: A Material Feminist Reading of the Female Body in The Handmaid’s Tale, The Handmaid’s Tale TV Show and The Testaments 
Øverland, Oda (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis will explore the female body presented in Margaret Atwood’s fictional world of Gilead in the context of material feminism. Through the mediums of two novels and one TV show I will use material feminist theories ...
Critiques of Normative Temporality by Twentieth-Century Women Writers 
Stenersen, Simen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Metaphor and ideology in climate change discourse Restricted Access
Steffensen, Karl Henrik Arnefeldt (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
To Look Like a Man in the Eyes of a Woman: The Female Gaze in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth Restricted Access
Israilova, Limda Akhmedovna (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Performative Heroes and Heroines: Examining the Subversion of Gender Norms in the Modern Fairy Tales Howl’s Moving Castle and Stardust 
Mathisen, Anita Vladimirovna (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
In this thesis I examine how the outdated notions of gender and gender norms have been used as tools to support various ideologies up through the years. The thesis will argue that the remnants of these ideologies can create ...
The Norwegian verb gi and the English verb give: A Corpus–based Contrastive Study 
Holmen, Siw Eline (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
The present study compares and contrasts the most frequent uses of the Norwegian verb gi and the English verb give, drawing on material from the English-Norwegian parallel Corpus The aim of the study is to uncover similarities ...
“This letter in its changing, uncertain moods”: Victorian Self-Fashioning in Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis 
Hines, Daniel Helland (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This master’s thesis sets out to examine the vital fashioning of a complex self in Oscar Wilde’s "De Profundis" through formal and textual analyses based on close readings. Inspired by literary theoretical definitions of ...
The Language of Rape: Narration, Sexual Violence, and Social Critique in Miriam Toews’s Women Talking Restricted Access
Auran, Sara (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Nice Guys: Masculinities in The Great Gatsby and (500) Days of Summer 
Nesbø, Ingeborg Heen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
En kommentert oversettelse av Jay Kristoffs Nevernight Restricted Access
Foss, Christina (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Denne oppgaven består av to deler. Første del er min oversettelse av de tre første kapitlene i Jay Kristoffs Nevernight. I andre del redegjør jeg for min tilnærming til oversettelsen, samt sentrale kjennetegn ved sjangeren ...
Estuary English – A fresh look at the boundary markers between Estuary English, Received Pronunciation and Cockney 
Tollefsrød, Adrian (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Estuary English has been a topic for discussion ever since the term was coined by David Rosewarne in 1984. The putative English variety has been criticized for its messiness and lack of phonological cohesion, and the debate ...
Rejecting Meat, Resisting Violence: Feminism and Animal Advocacy in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman and Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats 
Zimmer, Julia (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Structures of Race in U.S. Graphic Narrative: Representations of Racial Identity and Violence in Victor LaValle's Destroyer and Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece's Incognegro Restricted Access
Oftedal, Hege (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis examines the ways in which Victor LaValle’s Destroyer and Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s Incognegro represent racial identity and racial violence. Special emphasis will be given to how they employ techniques ...
Irony and sarcasm in the layman’s terms: A first-order investigation into second-order theory Restricted Access
Ween, Sven Olav (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
"A wholly undeserved reputation for recklessness": Narrative and the representation of danger in Slingsby's Norway the Northern Playground 
Hjorth, Christian (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Cross-cultural pragmatics: a study of refusals by Brazilian learners of English 
Brændeland, Erica Vieira Coutinho (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
In this thesis, I aim to investigate the interlanguage produced by Brazilian learners of L2 English at two different proficiency levels, looking for potential L1 transfer of politeness strategies. To fundament the investigation ...
Impact of Textual (Dis)Arrangement on Textual Clarity: A Case Study of Criminal Trespass in the Penal Codes of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan 
Munir, Rana Muhammad (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This study examines the impact of expressions that are not well arranged in a text on the clarity of the text. I focus on the text “Of Criminal Trespass”, which is almost identical in the penal codes of Bangladesh, India, ...
Lexical Patterns in the Climate Discourse: A collocational network analysis of a subject-specific corpus. 
Bøe, Sarah Gundhus (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This thesis aims to test the ‘recent’ concept of collocation networks in corpus assisted discourse analysis, in hope that it will reveal a new level discourse and lexical structures not found in traditional analysis of ...
‘Vi switcher ikke, og nå gjorde jeg det vet du, nå sa jeg det’ Code Switching Among Norwegian Teenagers 
Almestrand, Vilde Haug (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This master thesis explores the phenomenon known as code-switching i.e. The alternative use of one or more languages in conversation, among three Norwegian teenagers occupied with gaming and the use of English in their ...
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)
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Speaking Spaces: A Material Ecocritical Approach to Graphic Narratives 
Hestenes, Margrete (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
In this thesis I examine how spaces in graphic narratives can act as oppressive forces. I apply a material ecocritical approach to three graphic narratives; Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, Undocumented: ...
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)
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 ...
The Essential Female Tragedy: A Study of Motherhood in African American Female Literature 
Bredoch, Nora Cecilie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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"
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 ...
GENDER PERFORMANCE AND STEREOTYPES IN THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, A WRINKLE IN TIME AND CORALINE Restricted Access
Fog, Ingerid Margareth (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Children’s novels like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle and Coraline by Neil Gaiman are important pieces of literature to analyse as their impact and popularity has already ...
‘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, ...
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 ...
Ei kommentert omsetting av Reservoir 13 av Jon McGregor. 
Laukeland, Aslaug Haraldsdotter (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 ...
Starting at the beginning: a corpus-informed investigation into the verbs 'start' and 'begin' 
Lønne, Celine (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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)
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 ...
The Political Uses of Nostalgia in Harper Lee´s To Kill a Mockingbird 
Tveit, Andrea Søgnen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Electra or Persephone? Matricide in Rebecca Solnit and Jeanette Winterson 
Werring, Else Willen Christina (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis is a study of two autobiographical ‘matricides’: Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby (2014) and Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal (2011). It engages both texts with Suzette Henke’s ...
Painting With Words: The Union of Verbal and Visual Representation in Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” 
Berglund, Benjamin Nicolai (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This study aims to demonstrate how Ashbery’s ekphrastic poem Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975) manages to verbally represent Parmigianino’s painting of the same name, in a manner that in effect bridges our understanding ...
The Brexit debate Restricted Access
Solum, Merethe Waack (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
The use of resultive conjuncts in written advanced Norwegian learners´ English Restricted Access
Talset, Sølvi (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis explores the differences of use of resultive conjuncts between advanced Norwegian learners of English and native British and American writer of similar age and educational background. Resultive conjuncts as ...
Moments in the Middle - Narrating a Self Under the Shroud of Social Control in Anna Burns’ Milkman 
Rytter, Ingvild Johanne (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
How Norwegian Learners of English and English Native Speakers use the modal auxiliary MUST and the quasi-modal HAVE TO: A Contrastive Study 
Beute, Ole (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This thesis compares how native speakers of English and Norwegian learners of English use the modal auxiliary MUST and the quasi-modal HAVE TO in order to express different types of modality. The data needed was gathered ...
Trauma, Narrative and Mastery - Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Don DeLillo's Falling Man 
Sendi, Ari (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
En kommentert oversettelse av Jon McGregors Reservoir 13 (utdrag) 
Pettersen, Silje Elisabeth Wessel (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The Problem of Authority and Verifiable Authenticity in Autobiography: A Study of J.M. Coetzee’s Scenes from Provincial Life Restricted Access
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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)
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. ...
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)
“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, ...
Living Otherwise: Transformative Veganism in John M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam-trilogy 
Aas, Mari (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
The Gray Area: Literary Representations of Sexual Consent 
Podhorny, Anne-Mette Martine (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 ...
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)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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