Browsing Master's theses in English by Title
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Like Stripes on a Chokecherry Tree : Representations of Trauma and Consolidation of History in Neo-slave Narratives
(Master thesis, 2021)Literature has long been utilised to provide commentary on social and political injustices, give voice to discriminated peoples, and provide context in relation to social and cultural history. The aim of this thesis was ... -
Liminal characters in the science fiction of Philip K. Dick
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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 ... -
Muslim Otherness in Post-9/11 Novels A postcolonial outlook on the fictional representation of Muslim otherness in post 9/11 novels.
(Master thesis, 2020)The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,led many Americans to vilify Muslims and Islam. Indeed, 9/11 bequeathed to the U.S. a new category of evil other, a decade and more after the “evil empire” of the USSR had been ... -
Negation in English : compared to Norwegian
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The new England code : controlling female agency in contemporary American tv drama
(Master thesis, 2008)In an attempt to contextualize the DC observations, the overarching super-genre of melo-drama has been given particular attention. The relevance of melodrama is evident as the main ‘corpus’ of the survey, Cold Case, embodies ... -
Nineteen eighty-four´s dystopian vision: power and the individual
(Master thesis, 2007)Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is by many known for, and consequently discussed in terms of, its “predictions” of the future, and its political satire. This thesis does not aim at discussing Orwell’s political ambitions, ... -
On the Yellow Brick Road : Fantasy, Fairy Tales, and the Coming of Age Journey
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Parental Strategies and Embodied Hope of Children in Post-Apocalyptic Works The Road and Bird Box: A study of Literary and Film Adaptation Strategies
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis investigates alternate parental strategies in Post-Apocalyptic fiction by examining the core family units in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Josh Malerman’s Bird Box. Additionally, I will analyse their respective ... -
Peace in the feminist garden : the feminist utopias of the ‘70s and the mythologies of the West
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Planning Sentences in Second Language English : Effects of Language Similarity and Language Proficiency
(Master thesis, 2019)This experiment examines the effects of syntactic structure, interlingual word similarity, and semantic relationships on second-language English sentence production and planning scope. Syntactic structure was manipulated ... -
Politics of Identity Exploring the relevance and salience of identity as a political concept within contemporary American politics
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis examines how politics became identity and how politicized identities are shaping contemporary American politics. Identity as a political concept in the Western sphere evolved by virtue of our human thymotic ... -
Racist chants in contemporary English Premier League : A study of English football supporters’ racist language
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis explores the English supporter culture in contemporary English Premier League, focusing on racist football chants. It discusses why selected football supporters or groups choose to express racist content when ... -
‘Raised by Wolves ’U2,Trauma& The Troubles
(Master thesis, 2020)