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Making of Arctic heroes. Charles Brower’s Fifty Years below Zero, Jan Welzl’s Thirty Years in the Golden North, and ideas of Arctic heroism and national character
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-11-19)This thesis examines literary representation and imaginative construction of arctic heroism and national character in autobiographical memoirs Fifty years Below Zero by Charles Brower (an U.S. writer) and Thirty Years in the Golden North by Jan Welzl (a Czech author from the Austro-Hungarian Empire). I discuss the ways Brower and Welzl fashion heroic images of themselves in their texts, and how these ... -
Margie Orford’s Hybrid Narratives: Crime Fiction Subgenres and the Theme of Misogyny in Daddy’s Girl and Like Clockwork
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-29)This thesis sets out to identity the different types of subgenres that constitute Margie Orford’s crime fiction novels Like Clockwork and Daddy’s Girl, and to explore their connections to the extensive and variegated descriptions of misogyny that pervades both novels. The research consists of two parts: The first part provides a general description of the different subgenres that Orford’s works make ... -
“Máilbmi nuppástuvvá ja olbmot dađe mielde” : Čáppagirjjálašvuohta historjjá muitalussan ja Heaikka duppal doaibma Árbbolaččat-trilogiijas
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2007-11-15)Árbbolaččat trilogija. Persovdnadulkon. Heaikka duppal doaibma, son doaibmá sihke muitaleaddjin ja váldopersovdnan. Dán dulkoma duogáš lea Textpraxisa metodalatnja. Nubbi oassi dán barggus, guoskkaha man láhkai romána ráiddu sáhttá geahččat komparatiivvalaččat Jovnna Ánde Vest eará románaid ja fagagirjjálašvuođa hárrái. Lean maiddái čájehan mo Árbbolaččat ráidu lea historjjá muitalussan, gos Sámi ... -
Mental illness in literature. Seeing and recognizing mental illness in Conrad’s ‘The Idiots’, Poe’s ‘The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether’ and Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-29)Abstract The central theme in ‘The Idiots’ by Joseph Conrad, ‘The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether’ by Edgar Allen Poe and Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald is mental illness. These texts demonstrate mental illness through genetically inherited insanity, doctor patient relationship and self-perception of mental illness in that they all explore the thin line between sanity and lunacy. ... -
Mobility, Place and Identity in Women's Road Narratives: A Spatial Analysis of Mona Simpson's 'Anywhere but Here' and Barbara Kingsolver's 'The Bean Trees'
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2018-05-29)This thesis sets out to explore women's road narratives in terms of mobility, place and identity. Since the publication of Jack Kerouac's masterpiece On the Road, road narratives have been a recurring feature in American literature and culture. However, the female aspect of this genre remains under-explored. Literary works by and of women on the road are generally overlooked. The muteness of this ... -
Moments of Being, A Real Trauma Truth of Virginia Woolf?
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-06-02)Master’s thesis in English Literature ENG-3992 -
Multimodal Young Adult Fiction and Reading Motivation
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-17)This thesis investigates two young-adult novels, Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003), in light of how they can enhance reading motivation among young male readers in lower secondary school. By looking at previous studies on boys’ reading habits and their reading preferences, this thesis ... -
Myten om den poetiske tilstand. En lesning av August Strindbergs Ett drömspel og Spöksonaten i lys av Antonin Artauds Le théâtre et son double
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Narrating the Migration Experience. How can the use of young adult migrant narratives and authentic experience in the EFL classroom increase both knowledge and understanding regarding society, history and adolescent migrant identity?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-04-11)This thesis explores how Said’s idea of Orientalism; how the Self mirrors the Other and recognizes otherness, and how these terms and processes influence and interfere with the establishment of personal identity. However, considerable examples in YA migration narrative demonstrate how Orientalism and othering are outdated and archaic mechanisms of identification, although they still intervene with ... -
Narrative and Ambiguity in the Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-11-01)The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner has been the subject of critical discussion for a long period of time. The discussions mainly revolve around the inconsistencies and ambiguity of the two narratives in the novel: the Editor’s and Robert Wringhim’s. This paper shows how some of this ambiguity is warranted, and how some of it is possible to diminish by perceiving the narratives ... -
Narrative empathy in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Home. An approach to teaching these works in upper secondary school in Norway
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-14)The following thesis uses Toni Morrison’s two novels Beloved and Home to demonstrate how multiple narrative perspectives can be used to prevent as well as evoke reader’s empathy. Furthermore, the thesis suggests using her work in upper secondary school to teach students about how narrative perspectives might manipulate empathy, which can enable them to reflect upon how different perspectives affect ... -
Nature, identity and Indian survival in Louis Owens' Wolfsong
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2009-06-01)The thesis analyzes the novel WOLFSONG by Louis Owens with particular focus on how in the novel Native American versus Euro-American relationship with nature and environment are presented. Furthermore, the thesis examines how the novel makes use of different imagery and characterizations in order to challenge perceptions around the complexity of American Indian identity, particularly countering the ... -
The New Barbarians Are Coming? A Postcolonial Reading of the Hybrid Identity Construction of London Immigrants in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956) and Rose Tremain’s The Road Home (2007)
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-11-01)This thesis performs a comparative investigation of the identity reconfiguration of the immigrants to London coming from the former British colonies in the 1950s, and those coming from the Eastern European states after the European Union integration respectively. It uses Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956) and Rose Tremain’s The Road Home (2007), novels that are contextually connected to these ... -
The Nihilistic Cosmos of Cormac McCarthy's Later Works
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-16)This thesis explores the bleak nihilistic literary universe portrayed in the novels No Country for Old Men, The Road, and The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form, by Cormac McCarthy. These works portray the cause of human civilization’s death to be the decay of morality through the absence of divine agency. Without divinity present to enforce moral laws upon the population humans are free to ... -
"No funk" - shame, violence and the black body: An investigation of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and God Help the Child
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-16)This thesis will provide an analysis of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970) and God Help the Child (2015) in light of historical context and gothic literary tropes, with the main focus on shame and the black body, violence and the inheritance of shame in families. I will show how an intertextual gothic reading of characters highlights the structural problems of racism in the shadow of slavery and ... -
‘No, she’s not going anywhere’: Subversions of Virtuous Passivity and Condemned Agency in Modern Retellings of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘Snow White’
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2023-05-12)This thesis examines how the depictions of femininity found in traditional versions of the fairy tales ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and ‘Snow White’ are challenged in modern retellings from the 20th and 21st centuries. Analysing Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s version of these tales in their historical context, this thesis details how portrayals of femininity are reduced to the archetypes of the passive angelic ... -
"Og alting tier" En studie av naturbegrepet i Knut Hamsuns dikt Skærgaardsø, Lad spille med Vaar over Jorden, Høstdag og Hvad suser i Natten.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2001-05-31)Denne hovedoppgaven er en studie av naturbegrepet i Knut Hamsuns dikt: Skærgaardsø, Lad spille med Vaar over Jorden, Høstdag og Hvad suser i Natten. Del 1 inneholder resepsjons-historien til Knut Hamsuns diktsamling Det vilde Kor samt en teoretisk tilnærming til analy-sen av naturbegrepet. Del II utgjør hoveddelen i oppgaven, og denne delen inneholder en analyse av forholdet mellom dikt-jeget, ... -
"Og hans sjel var både sort og hvit". Hvordan bruke Hamsun i dybdelæring for å øke elevenes litterære kompetanse?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-13)Gjennom flere år som ungdomsskolelærer har jeg kjent på stresset med å skulle nå alle kompetansemålene som er bestemt av Utdanningsdirektoratet, samtidig som undervisningen skal være interessant og variert slik at kunnskapen sitter hos elevene etterpå. Da jeg for noen år siden skulle planlegge undervisning rundt Hamsun og nyromantikken, slo det meg at denne tidsepoken med sitt “ubevisste sjeleliv” ... -
"Og hun bluedes ikke" : en analyse av Knut Hamsuns Edvarda Mack
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-11-21)Edvarda Mack opptrer i to av Knut Hamsuns romaner, henholdsvis Pan (1894) og Rosa (1908). Hamsun velger altså å hente inn igjen denne karakteren etter 14 år. Hvorfor gjør han det? Når Edvarda kommer tilbake til Sirilund har hun blitt enke. Vi får vite at hennes finske baron har skutt seg. Med seg har hun også to barn. Hun er altså en annen enn den unge, forelskede Edvarda vi blei kjent med i Pan, ... -
Om forholdet mellom ord og bilde i Tove Janssons novelle "Svart-vitt. Hommage à Edward Gorey"
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-06-01)Oppgaven tar som tittelen tilsier for seg forholdet mellom ord og bilde i Tove Janssons novelle "Svart-vitt. Hommage à Edward Gorey". Som inngang til en lesning har jeg valgt å fokusere på den forbindelsen som synes å finnes til den amerikanske illustratøren Edward Gorey og hans billedbok Västra flygeln (The West Wing). Undersøkelsen av ord-bilde forholdet er gjort med utgangspunkt i Hans Lunds ...