This thesis sets out to examine the physical, private/domestic and public/national space, as well as the complex interrelations between them, as represented in Woolf’s last novel, Between the Acts (1941). My method involves a gradual broadening of the perspective. I begin by studying the representation and symbolism of physical objects and spaces of Pointz Hall – the novel’s setting, before moving ...

This thesis is about balance of power between men and women in three of Rachilde's novels. It analyzes the relations and interactions between the male and female characters, and the evolution of these aspects throughout the three novels, which were published over a period of 16 years. Rachilde was a french woman writer who got famous at the age of 24, when her first novel, Monsieur Vénus, published ...

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

Hovudoppgåva ”- Kjærleiken gjev oss eit andlet” drøftar poesiromanen Bror sorg av Hanne Aga, ut frå eit psykoanalytisk og narratologisk perspektiv. Teoretisk kviler analysen på den franske psykoanalytikeren Jacques Lacan sine teoriar, ei fortolking av klassisk freudianisme basert på strukturalisme og post-strukturalisme. Dei narratologiske omgrepa i analysen er henta hos den franske litteraturteoretikaren ...

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 ...

This thesis examines the disintegration of the American family as depicted in selected plays by Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Sam Shepard. Four plays are central: Long Day’s Journey into Night (1956), Death of a Salesman (1949), Buried Child (1978), and True West (1980). (Journey and Salesman constitute my major focus and serve to generate my thesis statement, while Buried Child and True West ...

African American music and contemporary African American literature are connected both thematically and structurally. This thesis examines the various ways in which Toni Morrison draws on the cultural traditions of her ancestors, especially blues and jazz music, in creating her sixth novel, Jazz. My analysis includes the important contexts of the history and culture of black Americans from slavery ...

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 ...

Oppgaven er en studie av forholdet mellom fiksjon og virkelig i lys av litterær selvframstilling. Formålet er å sammenligne Knut Hamsuns kortprosa med biografisk materiale.

The main focus for my thesis will be on John Banville’s Frames trilogy (2001) and the author's rendering of the limitations and possibilities of the aesthetic individual. In order to show how the tension between the aesthetic and the moral existence is illustrated by Banville’s protagonists, I have also included in my analysis certain literary and philosophical influences that I have found relevant. ...