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The World of George Grosz’s Pictures and the World Depicted in The Novel Pokora by Szczepan Twardoch
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)“My drawings expressed my despair, hate and disillusionment […] I drew soldiers without noses; war cripples with crustacean-like steel arms” – so stated George Grosz in a refl ection on his art. This quotation expresses ... -
“Natural” stress patterns and dependencies between edge alignment and quantity sensitivity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We conducted an artificial language learning experiment to study learning asymmetries that might reveal latent preferences relating to, and any dependencies between, the edge alignment and quantity sensitivity (QS) parameters ... -
Genres in young learner L2 English writing: A genre typology for the TRAWL (Tracking Written Learner Language) corpus
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In learner corpus research, it is well known that one should control for genre when collecting and analysing written L2 (second language) English data, as genre is one factor that has been shown to account for language ... -
Design and construction of the Tracking Written Learner Language (TRAWL) Corpus: A longitudinal and multilingual young learner corpus
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article describes the design and construction of the Tracking Written Learner Language (TRAWL) Corpus. The corpus combines several features that are all rare for learner corpora: it is longitudinal, following individual ... -
„Hauptsache nich’ Mitte 30“. Quarterlife Crisis in Simon Strauß’ Sieben Nächte (2017)
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Einleitung: Alter & Ego. (Auto)fiktionale Altersfigurationen in deutschsprachiger und nordischer Literatur
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Bengali nasal vowels: Lexical representation and listener perception
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The African American Experience: Race and racism in the literary creations of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), and Beloved (1987)
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis examines how the literary characters in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), and Beloved (1987) are inflicted by racial discrimination. The novels depict a society that promotes white privilege, ... -
Storytelling in Video Games: An Analytical Approach to Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Part II
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis investigates how video games tell stories, and if video games can be analyzed in the same way as we would analyze a literary work of fiction. To answer these questions, I will start by investigating the field ... -
The Object of the Phallus: A Psychoanalytic Feminist Analysis of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth.
(Master thesis, 2022)Much scholarly attention has been paid to the patriarchal constraints governing the lives of women. In this context, the role of discourse in the formation of representations of women is seminal to the feminist cause. The ... -
English vs. Esperanto: A comparative study of clausal word order in a Minimalist framework
(Master thesis, 2022)Both English and Esperanto are international auxiliary languages, but English is deemed as an SVO language with rigid word order, while Esperanto, although considered predominantly SVO, allows for relatively free constituent ... -
The Power of Many Stories: Afropolitanism in Teju Cole's Open City and Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah
(Master thesis, 2022)Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg Afropolitanisme som et paradigmeskifte i postkolonial litteratur og teori. Jeg belyser Afropolitanisme gjennom bøkene Open City av Teju Cole og Americanah av Chimamanda Adichie. -
Free will in a simulated reality: “How does agency panic affect the decisions of Matrix characters”?
(Master thesis, 2022)Analysis of choices i the Matrix universe, looking for the effect agency panic has on the character's decision-making. -
'To Leave or to Remain': Trauma, Loss and the Reinvention of the Self in Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis will examine trauma and loss in Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy: Outline (2014), Transit (2016) and Kudos (2018), and how it opposes and supplements another narrative, that of conversion and the reinvention of ... -
When Reader Becomes Player: A study of future narratives, agency, the ludonarrative framework, and morals within the ludic experience.
(Master thesis, 2022)Video games have broken their niche appeal, becoming a mainstream medium on par with literature and cinema. The popularity of the medium is not the only thing which has evolved, but also the capacity for video games to ... -
Religious Implications in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis aims to demonstrate the opposing religious and political standards in John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667) and in Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651). A comparison of the two respective authors illustrates ... -
A study of despondency and trauma in Edgar Allan Poe's life and literature
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Double Vision in The Blythes are Quoted: Reading Marked External References
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Ambivalent Déjà-vu: World War II in the Poetry of the Northern Irish Troubles
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How to do things with signs. The formulation of directives on signs in public spaces
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper analyzes signs and written messages aimed at regulating people's behavior in public spaces. Based on a collection of more than 700 verbal and pictographic signs, the paper focuses on how the formulation of the ...