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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 However, considerable examples in YA migration narrative demonstrate how Orientalism and othering are outdated and archaic mechanisms of identification, although they still intervene with ...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 ... -
On the creation of tensions between Cot’s fictional autobiography as compared to the encompassing frame narrative in Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl: A Novel by Kate McCafferty. The narrative impact on the voice of a female character and witness, Cot Daley – a suppressed Irish indentured servant in Barbados in the late 17th century
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-11-01)The thesis discusses Kate McCafferty’s novel Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl from 2003, in which the Irish heroine is Cot Daley, an indentured servant, who lives in Barbados in the seventeenth century. The thesis focuses upon how the novel negotiates the relationship between the historical contexts and the novel’s plot, theme and norm, and – moreover – how McCafferty’s Testimony negotiates the ... -
One Nation Under Melville. An Analysis of Nationalism, Imperialism, and Race in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick or, The Whale
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-11-01)Moby-Dick, or The Whale is a novel famed for its multifaceted nature, due to the myriad of both literary themes and political views that critics can explicate from it. In this thesis I will show how the novel Moby Dick, or the Whale can be interpreted in a manner that engender nation and myth building for the United States, in which the contemporary greatness of the nation makes up for the lack of ... -
"One's life is peculiary one's own when one has invented it." En lesning av kjønnstematikk i Djuna Barnes' roman Nightwood.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2000-05)”I am the most famous unknown of the century!” Slik lød selvkarakteristikken fra Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) i et brev til forfatterkollegaen Natalie Barney i 1963.<sup>1</sup> Da var Barnes 71 år og hadde forlengst avskrevet muligheten for en bred litterær anerkjennelse etter å ha forfattet Nightwood, romanen denne oppgaven har som mål å si noe om. Når vi nå skriver 2000, 37 år senere, har dette ... -
Orphanhood and trauma in Toni Morrison's A Mercy and Beloved
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-15)Abstract The current thesis examines the themes trauma and orphanhood and how they are connected in Toni Morrison’s two novels A Mercy (2008) and Beloved (1987), respectively. I will examine how traumatic experiences and the notion of both literal and cultural orphanhood affects the community, and how this has changed from the story in A Mercy being set in the late 17th century and to the story in ... -
Palabras sin fronteras. Un análisis de la traducción noruega de los elementos culturales de la novela El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia de Patricio Pron.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-05-30)This present investigation examines the translation of cultural elements in the novel El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia (2011), written by the Argentinian author Patricio Pron, translated into Mine foreldres ånd fortsetter å stige i regnet (2011), by the Norwegian translator Kristina Solum. The objective of the analysis is to find out which of the two main translation strategies ... -
“The past becomes an everlasting regret” : the interrelations between past, illusion and gender in three selected plays by Tennessee Williams
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-05-11)The interrelations between past, illusion and gender in The glass menagerie, A streetcar named desire and Summer and smoke by Tennessee Williams. -
The Paths of a Witcher: Moral Foundations, Narrative Distance and Choice in The Witcher 3
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-15)This thesis explores moral questions and storytelling in The Witcher 3. By utilising Moral Foundations Theory, Narrative Distance and research on videogames and audiovisual storytelling it seeks to explain differences in moral thinking. It argues that The Witcher 3, is uniquely suited to the exploration of moral questions due to its fantastical elements, portrayal of human nature and branching ... -
The Penalization of Agentic Female Characters in Literature: An Analysis of The Awakening and Looking for Alaska
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-14)Adolescents tend to identify with literary characters to a considerable degree, and it is therefore vital to advocate the distinction between healthy and unhealthy characters in the secondary classroom. This thesis aims to investigate the intertwining topics of mental health and gender roles in Kate Chopin’s canonical novel The Awakening (1899) and John Green’s young adult fiction novel Looking for ...