Master's theses in English
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Britain’s Alternating Immigration Discourse
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis will investigate whether British immigration discourse has gone in a circle for the last 20 years. Following on from that, it will also attempt to determine whether the government’s discourse and policy on ... -
Teaching about indigenous people with Minecraft Education
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis investigates the potential of Minecraft Education (ME) as a tool for teaching Norwegian lower secondary school pupils about indigenous people, with a particular focus on the Māori people of New Zealand. A ... -
Living in Changing Times Personhood and Partnership in Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey and Harriet Martineau’s Deerbrook
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis analyzes the portrayal of gender in Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey and Harriet Martineau's Deerbrook. It explores how the main characters challenge traditional gender roles and the extent to which the authors are ... -
Internalized Misogyny in Hip Hop: From Socio-Political Voice to Profit-Driven Objectification
(Master thesis, 2023)Hip Hop, with its social-political properties, is a genre that often discusses oppression and social injustice. This thesis aims at exploring how the genre contradicts these values with its view of women. In this context, ... -
Identity and Hybridity in Zadie Smith's White Teeth
(Master thesis, 2023)The aim of this thesis is to explore identity and hybridity across two generations in two families in the multicultural suburb of Willesden in North West London in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth. The characters are analyzed ... -
Translation shifts from English to Romanian in literary and general informative texts
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis asks the question of how English present and past participles are translated to Romanian in literary texts, as well as in general informative texts. Excerpts containing present and past participles are extracted ... -
Staging the Narrative
(Master thesis, 2023)Throughout this thesis, I will look at the concept album as a discursive genre with a focus on La Dispute’s second full-length album Wildlife, released in 2011. By engaging with the narrative and the performance of Wildlife, ... -
Kurt Vonnegut and the Postmodern Satire
(Master thesis, 2023)A broad look at the reformative qualities in Kurt Vonnegut's writing, through the analyses of three of his novels (The Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle, and Slaughterhouse-Five). -
The Black Panther's Aesthetics: An Exploration of the Importance of Visual Elements as Part of an Afrofuturistic Multimedia Narrative
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis aims to explore the ways in which visual elements of the 2018 Marvel film Black Panther affects its narrative, and how it reinforces the themes regarding identity, heritage, and Afrofuturism. By putting an ... -
From Brave New World to Ready Player One; yesterday's dystopias as tomorrow's utopias
(Master thesis, 2023)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the evolution of literary utopias and dystopias in light of what I consider to be the new master narrative of post-humanism. The inspiration for this project has been Yuval Noah ... -
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
(Master thesis, 2022)
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