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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 explores the claim that the Victorian dramatic monologue developed into two distinct traditions – the traditional, predominantly male tradition represented by writers such as Browning and Tennyson, and a separate ...

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

This thesis investigates the climate discourse in selected material from the British newspapers the Times and the Guardian, with a view to uncover changes through time (1990 to 2014), as well as differences between the two ...

This thesis explores some of the roles and functions that trees have in works of imaginative literature, as symbols, as structural elements, and as representations of real trees in the physical world. Whereas most other ...

In this thesis I employ animal studies theory and criticism to explore the boundaries of the human in contemporary American literature. I argue that there is a need for intersectional analysis within cultural studies, ...

Denne masteroppgaven er en korpusbasert undersøkelse av oversettelse av kulturbetinget humor. Fokuset ligger på humoristiske ytringer som refererer til annen verdenskrig i en nyere kontekst etter krigen. Analysen bygger ...

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

This 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) ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Denne 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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...