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Ei tolking av Brannen av Tarjei Vesaas
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2004-06-15)Hovudoppgåva er ei tolking av romanen Brannen av Tarjei Vesaas. Brannen er ein modernistisk roman som kom ut i 1961. Romanen handlar om den unge guten Jon som bur på hybel i eit hus, og som følgje av ei telefonoppringing gjev seg i veg ned trappene og ut og i gang med ei vandring. Vandringa fungerer strukturerande i romanen, og på denne vandringa har Jon mange opplevingar, mange skrekkelege møte med ... -
Emily Brontë's Confrontation with Power Structures in Wuthering Heights: Connections between Victorian Race, Class, and Gender
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-06-01)This thesis seeks to analyze how Emily Brontë portrayed the power structures of class, race, and gender in Wuthering Heights as interconnected and cyclical. It is important to see these power structures in connection, as they may cause further oppression together for the already oppressed. I argue that Brontë mocks the Victorian societal structures and their cyclical nature, and I show this through ... -
En følelse av sted. Sykdomsfremstilling i samtidslitteratur for barn og unge. En sammenlignende lesning av Levi Henriksens Så lenge himmelen er over jorda (2016) og Anders Totlands Engel i snøen (2016) med vekt på stedet.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-11-01)Hva er sted? Hvordan oppnår man en følelse av sted? En forutsetning for stedsdannelse er at individet inngår i en meningsfull relasjon til stedet. Stedsteorier er forankret i fenomenologisk filosofi og har sin opprinnelse i geografi og arkitektur, men det stedlige fokuset har spredt seg over til de humanistiske vitenskapene etter den romlige vendingen den siste delen av 1900-tallet. Stedet er et ... -
En gåte pakket inn i et mysterium inni en hemmelighet. En lesning av Jan Kjærstads Rand.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-30)I denne avhandlingen ligger hovedfokuset på å forstå Rand av Jan Kjærstad. Men det er en intrikat roman. Det er en roman med et meningsinnhold som for leseren kan være umulig å forstå. Vi følger Rand-personen som hjelper politiet med å løse drapene han selv har begått. Han formulerer seg på en måte som tilser at han er fullstendig klar over at han har myrdet. Samtidig som han tilsynelatende er klar ... -
"...en sprø hest i evighetens øye". Modernitet, galskap og identitet i Einar Már Gudmundssons Universets Engler.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2006-06-02)I denne avhandlingen har jeg sett på hvordan karakterene i Einar Már Guðmundssons roman Universets Engler lever og utvikler sin selvidentitet i moderniteten. Jeg har også studert ulike formaspekter ved romanen. En problemstilling i avhandlingen var hvordan menneskene i Universets Engler lever og utvikler sin selvidentitet i moderne tid, og min tese var at Anthony Giddens’ teorier i boka Modernitet ... -
"En ødemark og en dødens forgård". Det nordnorske stedet i Roy Jacobsens forfatterskap
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2001-12-14)Jeg har sett nærmere på noen av Roy Jacobsens tekster som har handlinga lagt til Nord-Norge. Disse tekstene er Det nye vannet og tre noveller i Det kan komme noen, nemlig "Steinene", "Møte" og "Det kan komme noen". Innafor hver enkelt tekst har jeg nærma meg det nordnorske fra det mer allmenne. Det vil si at jeg har starta med å anslå tekstenes tematikk, hvor forandring, og redsel for sådan, står ... -
Encounters between Native Americans and Whites in James Welch's Historical Novels Fools Crow and The Heartsong of Charging Elk
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-14)This thesis examines encounters between Native Americans and whites in James Welch’s historical novels Fools Crow and The Heartsong of Charging Elk. I wish to show that the encounters are forced and happen against the background of imperialism and colonialism, and occur between peoples of unequal powers. In the novels, traditional Native American culture is profoundly affected by the encroaching ... -
English Literature and Digital Creativity in the Classroom
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-05-15)The main objective of this thesis is to address how we can use Mark Haddon’s complex 2004 multitextual novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Jay Asher’s controversial novel Thirteen Reasons Why with the methods of digital storytelling (DST) and podcasts to educate pupils in upper secondary school in Norway to become creative, engaged, inquisitive and critical thinkers. Furthermore, ... -
The Ethics of Proximity in Literature: An Ethical Reading of Immediacy in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Foe
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-11-01)In this project, I present a reading of ethics and politics in John Maxwell Coetzee’s Foe (1986) and Age of Iron (1990) based on Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy on proximity. By deploying the ethics of proximity into the ethical reading of the relationships between Mrs. Curren and Vercueil in Age of Iron and between Susan and Friday in Foe, a sense of resistance towards the political dimensions of ... -
Ethics, Democracy and Education in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, and the New Reform of Education in Norway. An Approach to teaching these works in Norwegian upper secondary school
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-15)The following thesis investigates how two novels, Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999), demonstrate ethical dilemmas and how they can be used to help students develop ethical awareness and educate democratic citizens with the ability to think critically. Furthermore, this thesis discusses and suggests ways and approaches to teaching these literary works in upper secondary ... -
Exploiting Unhappy Orcs & Gullible Hobbits: Colonialism and Oppression in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-05-30)This master’s thesis investigates J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and specifically its three volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, from a post-colonial literary perspective. By examining these books based on Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism and Frantz Fanon’s ideas on national culture, reveals a new and original argument about Orcs and Hobbits ... -
Exploring Racialization portrayed in Young Adult Fiction
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-06-22)This thesis aims to answer how racial stereotypes are challenged in Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give and Nic Stone’s Dear Martin by informing the reader through transformative characters. This is done by analyzing both novels’ portrayals of police brutality leading to an internal conflict concerning race. To investigate the novels, Critical Race Theory and the term intersectionality will be used along ... -
Expressions of Mood in Cinematic Adaptations of Patricia Highsmith’s novels The Price of Salt and The Talented Mr. Ripley
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-09-10)The thesis sets out to explore the ways that mood is adapted from Highsmith’s novels The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) and The Price of Salt (1952) to Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Todd Haynes’s Carol (2015), respectively. The aim is to show the diverging ways in which the novels and the films express the quintessential Highsmith story through mood, and to show how these diverging ... -
Facilitating For a Conscious Awareness of Oneself Through Literature. Using 2001: A Space Odyssey as a facilitator in the classroom for enhancing student’s perspective taking and capacity to mentally time travel
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-15)This thesis aims to show how literature can be used to facilitate a deeper understanding of ourselves and our imaginative mind, inside and outside the classroom. The novel that will be used as an example is Arthur C. Clarke’s renowned 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The novel revolves around Clarke’s worldview and prospections about the future, musing on the existential questions which have puzzled ... -
Facilitation of critical thinking and ethical awareness by reading dystopian literature
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-14)This thesis explores the potential of dystopian literature to facilitate critical thinking and ethical awareness, drawing on the theories of Martha Nussbaum and Wayne C. Booth to provide a theoretical framework for analysis. The study focuses on two classic dystopian novels, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. It analyzes how these novels invite reflections on ... -
Fan Fiction and Authorship. Secondary Authors and Their Role in the Evolution of the Author Construct and Canonicity
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-10-30)This thesis explores the author role as a complex construct in relation to the notion of canonicity, investigating the relationship between authors, their original works, fan authors and fan authors’ works of fan fiction. Four major works have been chosen for analysis, Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study In Scarlet (1887), J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007), Anthony Horowitz’ ... -
Fear in Detective Stories: The representation of crime as threatening or nonthreatening in A Study in Scarlet and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-11)This thesis explores the representation of crime and fear in detective stories. I will particularly look at this in Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Three main concepts will be used to analyze these texts: the detective novel as a genre, the presence of an unreliable police force, and the elements of a sensation novel. ... -
Finding the Self through Travel: A Psychoanalytic Analysis of Self-Discovery and Transformation in Travel Writing
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-12)My thesis addresses the themes of self-discovery and transformation in travel literature. The travel writing narrative reinforces a cultural and personal consciousness in which mobility, observation, curiosity, accuracy, and imagination become qualities fundamental to understanding oneself. Journeys of self-discovery are a popular form of narrative in travel literature. Using Paulo Coelho’s The ... -
Fistfighting "Super Injun". Reinscribing Native American Literature in the English Classroom
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-15)This thesis examines ways in which Native Americans are portrayed in literature by analyzing two of Sherman Alexie's short stories "This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona", and "Because my Father Always Said he Was the only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock", as well as the movies "Pocahontas" (1995) and "Smoke Signals" (Alexie, 1998). The Native ... -
Forholdet mellom kristendom og folketru i Krabvaag (1905) av Regine Normann. Ein analyse av korleis konflikten mellom kristendomen og folketrua arter seg
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-16)I denne oppgåva analyserer eg korleis konflikten mellom folketru og kristendom artar seg i Krabvaag. Eg skal granske konflikten både på eit individuelt og samfunnsmessig nivå. Spesielt vil eg gå inn på korleis hovudpersonen Paulina taklar konflikten. Eg ser på konflikten som ei motsetning i Paulina, ho klarer ikkje å integrere kristendomen og folketrua godt nok i seg sjølv. Det er mora Karen som er ...
