Den selvframstillende litteraturen har de siste par tiårene fått ny aktualitet. Særlig i Skandinavia har vi sett en tendens til at flere og flere forfattere har vendt seg bort fra fiksjonen og begynt å skrive om seg selv. Fenomenet spenner vidt, men kjennetegnes særlig av eksperimentering med form, sjanger og språk, samt et tydelig og personlig jeg. I tillegg reiser den ofte en rekke spørsmål knyttet ...

I min avhandling om Tarjei Vesaas’ Brannen (1961) utforsker jeg mystikken i verkets visjonære grunnlag. Hovedfokuset for mitt tolkningsarbeid ligger på symbolbruken i åpnings- og avslutningssekvensen. Gjennom et utvalg av religiøse, filosofiske og psykologiske tekster viser jeg hvordan Brannens billedmettete symbolspråk uttrykker de uutgrunnelige, transcendentale «sannheter» om menneskets sjeleliv. ...

Dutkamušastan guorahalan Vuoi dan Kárenina ja Mu ártegis eallin váldopersovnnaid ovdáneami. Dutkančuolmma juogán golmma váldooassái; váldopersovnna-, váikkuheaddji- ja ovdáneami guorahallamii. Váldopersovnna guorahallamis geahčadan persovnnaid siskkáldas ja olgguldas iešvuođaid. Guktuid teakstadujiin lea váikkuheaddji, nu gohčoduvvon katalysáhtor, guhte váikkuha sihke persovnnaid ja muitalusa juona. ...

This thesis looks at how resistance is performed in Mark Mathabane’s autobiography Kaffir Boy. The post-colonial theoretical framework theorists such as Edward Said, Homi Bhabha and Chimamanda Adichie provide helps this thesis analyze how social actors are able to provide resistance against the apartheid regime. It becomes evident that these resistances are layered, and fundamentally more complex ...

In this thesis address the issue of how point of view and narrative voice within The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon 2003), and Mockingbird (Kathryn Erskine 2010) relate to the theoretical models of disability studies. As the analysis will prove, the effect of narrative strategies in the novels serves to underline some of the current challenges within the field of disability ...

In his thesis, the main objective is to look at the connection between language and human rights in two dystopian novels, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948) and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005). This thesis also proposes how these two novels, and literary texts in general, can be taught to pupils in upper secondary school. As the lack of or loss of human rights is an element in many ...

Dán dutkamušas guorahalan movt heteronormativitehta boahtá ovdan sámi čáppagirjjálašvuođas. Ulbmil lea gávnnahit makkár kultuvrra sámi čáppagirjjálašvuohta ovddida normálan, lunddolažžan ja árvvus adnojuvvon kultuvran ráhkisvuođa ja seksualitehta dáfus, ja mii lea dasto dat mii olgguštuvvo dahje hilgojuvvo. Dutkamuša vuođđun leat queer-teoriijat, sosialiserenteoriijat ja sohkabealsosialiserenteoriijat, ...

This is a two-part thesis: a literary analysis and a didactical examination of the novels chosen. The literary analysis explores the apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic worlds in The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, by examining the novels with three keywords: society, survival and accountability. Humanity is seemingly lost in both novels, and the main characters fight ...

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 ...

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. ...