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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 ... -
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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‘Raised by Wolves ’U2,Trauma& The Troubles
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Root canals : identity in Zadie Smith`s White teeth
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The silencing of women in westerns : a psychoanalytic, lacanian, and feminist approach
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’Someone stole my story’ : Home and Trauma in Two Palestinian Novels
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis will examine representations of home and trauma in the Palestinian novels Mornings in Jenin (2008) by Susan Abulhawa and Salt Houses (2017) by Hala Alyan. Written by Palestinian refugees now living in the United ... -
A survey of the outside language pressure on modern faroese: with a view to assessing a possible increase in the use of English loanwords
(Master thesis, 2006)The focus of this work has been on the outside pressure on the Faroese language with an particular view to assessing a possible increase of new English Imports inot the language in view of the present-day technological ... -
“The Road Not Taken”: poetry and personal insight in the EFL classroom and beyond
(Master thesis, 2016)This qualitative study examines how Norwegian tenth graders show personal insight through the reading of the poem “The Road Not Taken”. The research is based on the responses from two English classes in a lower secondary ... -
Tip-of-the-Tongue (TOT) States in Norwegian-English Bilinguals : Effects of Word Frequency, Cognate Status, Noun Type, and Bilingual Profiles
(Master thesis, 2021)This study investigates the effects of language, word frequency, cognate status, noun type, and different bilingual profiles on tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states in Norwegian-English bilinguals. Furthermore, the study aimed ... -
The Transtextuality of Cline’s Ready Player One Comparative Analysis into the Effect of Transtextuality, and the Subsequent Emancipation of its Reader.
(Master thesis, 2020)This analysis looks into the history behind the concept of transtextuality as articulated by Genette, and its implications to the notion of there being a correct way to read. Arguably, Barthes’ Death of the Author gave ... -
When dad becomes a woman : A Critical Discourse Studies approach to gender performativity in American and Norwegian reality TV and documentary film
(Master thesis, 2018)In this master's thesis I have wanted to say something about male-to-female transgender identity construction and the way in which it takes place in ordinary life. I have investigated how two different families negotiate ...