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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The interrelations between past, illusion and gender in The glass menagerie, A streetcar named desire and Summer and smoke by Tennessee Williams.

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 ...

This thesis analyzes how Charlotte Brontë uses theatrical performances as narrative techniques in her novel Villette (1853). The thesis looks at three different kinds of performances found in the novel: the On-Stage and Off-Stage acting performed by the younger focalizer in the embedded narrative, as well as the Narrative Performance that is ‘performed’ by the older narrator in the frame narrative. ...

I denne nærlesningen utforsker jeg bygden Poldens funksjon i Knut Hamsuns roman Landstrykere. Jeg fokuserer særlig på hva Polden betyr for de to hovedpersonene, August og Edevart. Edevart er til å begynne med tvers igjennom poldværing, men August viser ham verden utenfor, og i løpet av romanen endres Edevarts tilknytning til hjemstedet. Jeg problematiserer synet i nyere Hamsun-forskning på Edevarts ...