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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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The Use of History in Teaching American Politics in Norwegian Upper Secondary Schools
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis examines how American politics is taught in upper secondary schools in Norway, with special attention on VG3 English Social Studies. The thesis investigates the connection between history and politics through ... -
Worlds Ablaze : The insidious traumata of the future anterior in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006)
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis examines the novels Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and The Road (2006), two future-set dystopian narratives that extrapolate on their contemporary and ongoing traumas. This paper explores the novels through the lens of ... -
Bound by society: Social identity in A Room with a View and The Rainbow
(Master thesis, 2021)The thesis presents a reading of the modernist novels The Rainbow (1915) by D.H. Lawrence and A Room with a View (1908) by E.M. Forster with a view at highlighting the factors that contribute to the formation of characters’ ... -
‘The Invisible Blood Pours Forth’ : Trauma in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin and Maria Padian’s Wrecked
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis investigates Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin (2000) and Maria Padian’s Wrecked (2016), and examine how the characters are affected by sexual trauma and rape culture. The novels depict a society that creates ... -
Extensive Reading and Language Accuracy Development in the ESL Classroom : A case study of extensive reading and lower secondary learner language in Norway
(Master thesis, 2021)Reading is an activity with many positive effects, one of which is arguably language improvement. This thesis aims to reinforce this claim by exploring the effects of extensive reading on language skills amongst Norwegian ... -
Young Norwegian Learners’ Perception and Recognition of English Variants : Relationships with language exposure and media intake
(Master thesis, 2021)English as a tool of communication is emphasized in the Norwegian subject curriculum reform of 2020, and no competence aims are directly connected towards the choice of English variant. The present study investigates young ... -
Conspiracy, Agential Angst and Resistance in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
(Master thesis, 2021)This study explores how powerful institutions influence the lives of individuals in the post-war American society as presented in two novels: Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. It focuses on the ... -
«Better never means better for everyone» : Dystopian Features in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland and Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time
(Master thesis, 2021)Available from 01/07/2026 -
Video Games And Learning : A theoretical approach to the use of commercial-off-the-shelf video games in Norwegian upper secondary education
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis explores the educational potential of commercial video games. With LK20, games and gaming have become integral part of Norwegian education, especially with a specific aim in the new English subject curriculum ... -
Investigating the Teaching and Learning of British and American Culture in Norwegian Upper Secondary School
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis is an investigation of teachers’ influence on pupils related to cultural knowledge in upper secondary. A semi-structured interview with three teachers provide data that is compared with a survey questionnaire ... -
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 Scope of Bilingual Sentence Planning in L1 and L2 : Effects of Complexity and Bilingual Profile
(Master thesis, 2021)Investigating the scope of bilingual sentence planning, this two-component study compared first and second language sentence production at different complexity level sin relation to aspects of bilingual profile. Norwegian-English ... -
Investigating tip-of-the-tongue states in Norwegian-English bilinguals : Effects of word frequency, cognate status and noun type in word retrieval, in relation to the bilingual profile
(Master thesis, 2021)The current study aimed to explore the effects of frequency, cognate status and noun type in tip-of-the-tongue occurrences in Norwegian-English bilinguals. In what manner the bilingual profile may exert influence on the ...