Master's theses in English
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The Components of Brainwashing in Literature: A Comparative Analysis of China Miéville's The City & The City and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
(Master thesis, 2024)The intent of this master’s thesis is to explore the validity of the assertion that the novel The City & The City by China Miéville contains covert forms of brainwashing, which is also known as stealthy brainwashing. With ... -
Enemies, Foreign and Domestic. An exploration into the effects of the trauma of war and sexual violence depicted in Helen Benedict’s novels, "Sand Queen" and "Wolf Season".
(Master thesis, 2024)In my thesis I wish to explore the consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by applying trauma theory in an analysis of Helen Benedict’s novels, "Sand Queen", and "Wolf Season". In these two novels, the author ... -
How The Help Displays a Multidimensional Perspective in the Feminist Fight Against Oppression.
(Master thesis, 2024)This study focuses on The Help by Kathryn Stockett, one of the contemporary literary works that tackle the issues of race, class, and femininity in America. The Help is set during the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi. ... -
COVID-19 Neologisms: a Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
(Master thesis, 2024)The COVID-19 pandemic brought about global changes to everyday life. This thesis investigates the emergence of neologisms in the English language in response to these changes. By collecting data from social media, specialized ... -
Raising Awareness of Coercive Control: The Role of Literary Representations.
(Master thesis, 2024)It is eight years since coercive control in intimate relationships was made unlawful in England and Wales, through section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015. The relatively low prosecution rates under the Act can be linked ... -
Aesthetics of Afrofuturism: Exploring the Afrofuturist Influence in the Black Panther Franchise
(Master thesis, 2024)This thesis explores the usage of Afrofuturist aesthetic in Marvel's Black Panther franchise. By analysing and exploring key extracts from Ta-Nehisi Coates' A Nation Under Our Feet and Evan Narcisse's Rise of The Black ... -
The Power of Words: Disrupting Genre in the Neo-Slave Narrative
(Master thesis, 2024)Abstract This thesis will examine the three neo-slave narratives Flight to Canada (1976) by Ishmael Reed, Kindred (1979) by Octavia Butler, and Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison. The narratives take their inspiration from ... -
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). -
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 ...
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