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Being at the Centre of a Scandal – Exploring the Complexities of the Sexual Deviant. Queer Counterspaces and their Effect on Character Development and Self-Actualisation in The Picture of Dorian Gray and Giovanni’s Room
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-14)This thesis addresses literary representations of queerness in public and private places. Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner’s 1998 essay ‘Sex in Public’ addresses the public’s association with sexuality and the idea of counterpublics. This thesis aims to use this idea of counterpublics in association with queer spacing, Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopias, and the concept of the deviant. I ... -
Bestialitetens genealogi : en lesning av Bestialitetens historie av Jens Bjørneboe med hovedvekt på fortellerens prosjekt
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2011-11-01)Lesning av Frihetens øyeblikk (1966), Kruttårnet (1969), og Stillheten (1973) av Jens Bjørneboe med spesielt henblikk på fortellerens prosjekt. Paul Ricoeurs Time and Narrative brukes fortrinnsvis som teoretisk grunnlag for lesningen. -
Bestseljarar i bokhandel og bibliotek. Ein analyse av Mors gaver (2013) og De usynlige (2013) i eit litteratursosiologisk perspektiv.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-12)I Noreg har me nokre av verdas beste litteraturpolitiske støtteordningar som skal fremje ein mangfaldig norsk litteratur. Likevel ser me at litteraturen me les blir meir underhaldningsretta og meir einsretta. I oppgåva har eg sett på dei mest selde og utlånte bøkene i 2014. Listene over desse bøkene er i stor grad prega av populærlitteratur innanfor sjangrane krim og melodrama. To bøker skil seg ut, ... -
Beyond imagination : the moral versus the aesthetic : philosophical and literary influences in John Banville's Frames trilogy
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2007-11-26)The main focus for my thesis will be on John Banville’s Frames trilogy (2001) and the author's rendering of the limitations and possibilities of the aesthetic individual. In order to show how the tension between the aesthetic and the moral existence is illustrated by Banville’s protagonists, I have also included in my analysis certain literary and philosophical influences that I have found relevant. ... -
The "Blackness of Blackness". The city and identity in Toni Morrison’s Jazz and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-15)This thesis aims to explore identity and individuality when entering and living in the city for African Americans in the 1920s. More specifically I aim to explore how migrating North from the South caused a crisis of identity for many African Americans and why this happened. Principally through looking at the novels Invisible Man and Jazz, but also through using essays on the city and identity from ... -
Border Theory: A New Point of Access into Literature. A border-theoretical reading of China Miéville’s Un Lun Dun, The City and the City and Embassytown
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-15)“Border Theory: A New Point of Access into Literature” seeks to explore the use of a border-theoretical approach to literature. Border theories by Johan Schimanski, Stephen Wolfe, David Newman, Homi Bhabha, and a set of different border planes – the symbolic, epistemological, topographic, temporal and textual border plane – provide the scholarly framework for this thesis. Border theory studies the ... -
Bortenfor blånene : kanonisk utvikling innen samisk lyrikk i det 20. århundre
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2004-05)Avhandlinga tar for seg de folkelig aksepterte hovedpillarene innen samisk lyrikk, og også samisk litteratur som helhet, i tre forskjellige perioder i det 20. århundre. Den tidlige oppblomstringa av samisk skriftkultur tidlig i århundret, representert ved Pedar Jalvi. Kampen for anerkjennelse av samiske rettigheter på 60- og 70-tallet, representert ved Paulus Utsi. Inngangen til det post-moderne mot ... -
"Brannen" og det mystiske erfaringspotensialet
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-06-03)I min avhandling om Tarjei Vesaas’ Brannen (1961) utforsker jeg mystikken i verkets visjonære grunnlag. Hovedfokuset for mitt tolkningsarbeid ligger på symbolbruken i åpnings- og avslutningssekvensen. Gjennom et utvalg av religiøse, filosofiske og psykologiske tekster viser jeg hvordan Brannens billedmettete symbolspråk uttrykker de uutgrunnelige, transcendentale «sannheter» om menneskets sjeleliv. ... -
Breaking the Silence: The Influence of Class,Culture and Colonisation on African Women's Fight for Emancipation and Equality in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-10-19)This thesis will examine how colonisation has influenced the African women’s fight for emancipation and equality as depicted in Nervous Conditions (1988) by Tsitsi Dangarembga and Purple Hibiscus (2003) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Dangarembga and Adichie individually are contemporary African post-colonial writers who have drawn worldwide attention with their novels about young women’s fight to be ... -
“Bures boahtin sámi stáhtii”. Sámi ráppa almmolaš digaštallanbáikin. Mo ovddiduvvo dat lyrihkkan ja kollektiiva jietnan?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-15)Sámi ráppárat Áivan, SlinCraze, Ailu Valle ja Duolva Duottar leat maid gohčoduvvon davvisámegiela váldoráppárin. UiT Árktalaš Universitehta vuosttašamanueansa Sin jietna ja ságastallan leat sihke siskkobeale ja olggobeale Sámi. Sii leat ovdavázzit ja sin ráppa lea dehálaš jietna sámi almmolaš digaštallamis ja dekoloniseremis (vrd. Kuokkanen 2009: 35). Teorehtalaš lahkonanvugiid válljemii lean válljen ... -
"But you can't get me out of the story". Feminist Revision of Fairy Tales in Short Stories by Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-29)Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter are but two of many authors who have appropriated the fairy tale genre and used its plethora of tales as intertext and playground for their artistic vision. This thesis will look selected stories from The Bloody Chamber (1979), Bluebeard’s Egg (1983) and Good Bones (1992). These collections engage with the fairy-tale canon, in both form, content and intertext, and ... -
"Bøyer seg til jorda, men brekker ikke” : Alf Nilsen-Børsskogs roman Kuosuvaaran takana som kvensk motfortelling
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-11-15)Alf-Nilsen Børsskogs Elämän jatko 1. Kuosuvaaran takana (2004) er den første kvenskspråklige romanen. Boken har blitt presentert som et bevis på det kvenske språkets eksistens og kulturens livskraft. Av analysen fremkommer romanens fortellerstrategier og fremstillinga av kvener sett i forhold til tidligere kvenskildringer og den historisk-kulturelle konteksten. Verket kan leses som ei motfortelling ... -
Challenging normality and breaking boundaries of prejudice
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-16)This thesis seeks to investigate how the protagonists with disabilities in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time challenge society’s normative views of taboos and break the boundaries of prejudice and to underline the importance for young adult readers to read such literature. Additionally, I will seek to answer how teachers can utilize ... -
Challenging the topics of interracial friendship, immigration, and racism by taking them into the 9th and 10th grade classroom. An analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie´s Americanah and Roald Dahl´s The Big Friendly Giant and how to teach them in secondary school
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-06-11)This thesis examines two literary works, Roald Dahl´s children´s fiction book, The Big Friendly Giant, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie´s realistic fiction novel, Americanah. It explores how these books can be used to teach students in secondary school about topics such as racism, immigration, prejudiced behavior, and stereotypes, as well as interracial friendship. Kelly Oliver´s theory on subjectivity ... -
Characterization in Jacob’s Room and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf :A comparative analysis of Jacob Flanders in Jacob’s Room and Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs Dalloway.
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2018-11-06)This thesis takes a look at how Virginia Woolf uses her writing-style to build up characters in two different books. Woolf is famous for her use of the Stream of Consciousness-technique in several of her works, and the works chosen for this analysis is Jacob’s Room from 1922and Mrs Dalloway from 1925, two consecutively publishedworks in her ... -
The Child's Perspective in To Kill a Mockingbird and The Kite Runner
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-16)This thesis will explore how adult fiction invites empathy in the reader and lets the reader experience and learn through reading. I will look at how adult fiction narrated through the child’s perspective invites the reader to an empathetic reflection. By using The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, I will identify how narrative techniques are used in order to ... -
Chronikalische Strukturen zwischen Archiv und Kritik : Gottfried Arnolds Unparteiische Kirchen- und Ketzerhistorie
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2007-11-15)Die Arbeit ist eine Zusammenfassung von den Verfolgungen der Ketzer von den ersten Jahrhunderten bis an das 17. Jahrhundert. Die Untersuchung dieser Verfolgungen zeigt, dass die katholische Kirche und vorher die Heiden und Juden immer die Ketzer verfolgten, aufgrund, dass die Ketzer von den Leuten beliebt waren, und deshalb die Macht und die Positionen der Geistlichkeit und der Obrigkeit drohten. ... -
The Conscious Collective. An exploration of Orwell’s Representations of Individualism within Authoritarian Societies
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-15)This master’s thesis examines the prolific author George Orwell’s representation of the struggles associated with individualism within authoritarian regimes. By drawing on Hannah Arendt’s Responsibility and Judgement, a discussion of the Eichmann trials, and the responsibilities of the German people, this thesis establishes a theoretical framework. This framework is used to discuss the responsibilities ... -
Creating a Love of Reading Through Young Adult Fiction in Norwegian Lower Secondary Schools
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-06-01)Creating a love of reading is important for students to develop early to prepare them for academia and their work life is also mentioned by UDIR. With the concept love of reading there is an implied intrinsic motivation to read, which is why the thesis will look at motivational factors that impede or facilitate motivation to read. The introduction of the new curriculum in 2020, also brought with it ... -
The Cult of Americanism: An analysis of BioShock Infinite’s dystopic Columbia as social commentary on American exceptionalism
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-15)This master’s thesis analyses BioShock Infinite as a critique of American exceptionalism. As a multi-modal video game, Infinite merges aesthetic design, music, and narrative into an egocentric moral experiences that allows for moral deliberation surrounding the self. This thesis aims to provide textual support that , by perversion of American symbols and myths, BioShock Infinite offers a critique ...