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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

J.R.R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire are two landmark works in the genre of medievalist fantasy literature. The main argument of this thesis is that, despite the apparent ...

The study of character and characterization has largely neglected the role of identity in the construction and interpretation of literary characters. Building on insights from classical, rhetorical, and cognitive narratology, ...

The 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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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"

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...