Denne mastergradsavhandlingen tar for seg Guy Delisles grafiske reiseskildring Pyongyang - En tegnet og meget begrenset reise i Nord-Korea (2008).Lesningen tar utgangspunkt i og utfordrer førstepersonsfortelleren Delisles perspektiv i skildringen. Hvordan viser han sitt perspektiv? Hva forteller det oss? Og i hvor stor grad kan vi stole på det? Jeg forsøker dermed å undersøke hvordan Delisle formidler ...

Roman ”Raskol” skrevet av den moderne russiske forfatter Vladimir Lichutin. ”Raskol” - en historisk roman. Forfatteren forteller historien om kirkekampen i Moskovskaja Rus’ (Russland) . Dette førte til en splittelse i samfunnet. Mange progressive mennesker, forskere, forfattere og kunstnere ble interessert i denne viktige saken i de neste århundrene. Lichutin prøver å forstå splittelsen for å ...

This thesis aims to investigate Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla” (1872) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) with a focus on how each text deals with gender and sexuality issues considering their contemporary societal culture. The Victorian Era in the UK was a time when conservative traditions were promoted, celebrating the inherent superiority of Englishmen. All other groups of people were categorized as ...

I denne oppgaven jobbet jeg med repetisjon, og spesielt med intertekstuell repetisjon av bibelske motiver i "Hundre års ensomhet" skrevet av Gabriel García Márquez. Bibelsk mytologi er bare en del av det mytologiske aspektet ved romanen. Det finnes flere likheter mellom romanen og Den hellige skrift, for eksempel oppbygningen som minner om Første Mosebok og Johannes` åpenbaring, den genealogiske ...

The thesis uses the critical lens of Deleuze and Guattari on the poetry of George Gordon Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Bobby Sands to illustrate the way natural elements deconstruct the power of a state apparatus by exposing it as a temporary social construct. I argue that literature creates the idea of a nation by perpetuating narratives that divide the world into borders; conversely, literature ...

The current thesis compares two plays based on historical witchcraft trials of the seventeenth century in England and Scotland, respectively: The Witch of Edmonton (1621) by Rowley, Dekker and Ford, and Witchcraft (1836) by Joanna Baillie. The plays are examined in order to establish why these two plays stage the witch; how the witch is staged; and what the staging of the witch communicates ...

The short story cycle is an overlooked genre, often dismissed by critics as a short story collection. This lack of attention paid to the interconnectedness between the short stories within a work diminishes the work as a whole by not acknowledging the value added by the relation between the short stories. In the background presented in this thesis, the classification of Sandra Cisneros’s Woman ...

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc along the Mexican Gulf Coast, and the aftermaths have (again) revealed the racial inequality that endures in the US. The fact that the US government was unable to protect their weak and most vulnerable citizens points to a fractured social contract. Through the memoir The Yellow House by Sarah Broom, and the non-fiction text Five Days at Memorial by Sheri ...

The thesis aims to investigate the feminine surrogates in the worlds of Ike McCaslin (“The Bear”) and Jean-Marc Seymour (Borderline). Thematically speaking, the main problems facing the protagonists of ”The Bear” and Borderline revolve around their constant struggle for self-definition. The lack of strong mother figures in childhood creates obvious and deep problems for both protagonists’ attempts ...