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    • The Hero's Healing Journey: Exploring Kaladin Stormblessed's journey from depression to resilience in The Stormlight Archive. 

      Olsen, Ole-Andreas Store (Master thesis, 2025)
      The following thesis aims to explore how Joseph Campbell’s idea about using myths as helping tools translates to modern fictional literature, by framing Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive as a healing myth. This is done by connecting modern psychiatric ideas on healing, with literary theories on how and why we read. I reflect upon one of the protagonists of The Stormlight Archive named Kaladin ...
    • Queer In-Betweenness: Between the Binaries in Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex 

      Leyton Palape, María Paz (Master thesis, 2025)
      Historically, bisexuality and intersex identities have been overlooked. Even in the queer community, bisexuals and intersex individuals had to bring their voices higher in order to be heard, through literature, testimonies and activism. However, even in the 21st century, the academic discussion and queer activism haven’t given enough visibility to the fictional representation of characters as models ...
    • The Hound, the Treasure, and the Ice: Empire Undone by Its Own Terrain Environment and Empire in Victorian Detective and Sensation Fiction 

      Parchami, Shirin (Master thesis, 2025)
      This thesis explores how nature and empire collide in three well-known Victorian stories: Wilkie Collins’s The Frozen Deep and Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles. While these works are often read as detective or adventure fiction, they also reflect deeper concerns about British colonialism and humanity’s troubled relationship with the environment. Using ideas ...
    • Å tilnærme seg kvensk identitet via teater. Diskursanalyse av Näkymätön kansa – Det usynlige folket 

      Blomli, Heidi Johanne (Master thesis, 2025)
      Tematikken i denne avhandlinga dreier seg om kvensk identitet og dette utforskes via Kvääniteatteri sin første forestilling. Via diskursanalyse av manus og opptak av forestillinga Näkymätön kansa – Det usynlige folket utforsker jeg hva kvensk identitet kan være i dagens samfunn. Dette diskuterer jeg via problemstillinga: Hvordan utforsker Näkymätön kansa – Det usynlige folket kvensk identitet? For ...
    • En kritisk diskursanalyse av kvenske/norskfinske temaer i lærebøker i fagene norsk, samfunnsfag og samfunnskunnskap for ungdomstrinnet og Vg1 

      Nilsen, Marthe Bjørseth (Master thesis, 2025)
      Denne masteravhandlinga handler om hvordan kvenske/norskfinske temaer blir formidla i lærebøker i fagene norsk, samfunnsfag og samfunnsvitenskap for ungdomstrinnet og Vg1. Datamaterialet er et tverrsnitt av lærebøker gitt ut etter Kunnskapsløftet 2020, og omfatter 15 trykte læreverk fra de fire største forlagene i Norge: Aschehoug, Cappelen Damm, Fagbokforlaget og Gyldendal. Kritisk diskursanalyse ...
    • Kompromiss 

      Josefsen, Linn Thea Kaldager (Master thesis, 2025)
      Dette er ei oversettelsesbasert masteroppgave i russisk språk og litteratur. Den består av oversettelser med kommentarer og drøfting. Oppgava tar for seg prosessen med å oversette et utvalg tekster av Sergej Dovlatov fra russisk til norsk. Tekstene som oversettes er fortellingene «Emigranty», «Tsjirkov i Berendejev» og «Igrusjka» samt utdrag av bøkene Zona, Kompromiss og Nasji. Utfordringer i ...
    • The Exploration of Identity in Joyce’s Dubliners (1914) and Barry’s Dark Lies the Island (2012) 

      Li, Ziwei (Master thesis, 2025)
      This thesis aims to explore how Irish identity is constructed and constrained by historical and ideological forces in James Joyce’s Dubliners (1914) and Kevin Barry’s Dark Lies the Island (2012). The Irishness presented in these two books shares similarities and distinctions across almost one century, demonstrating how these comparisons develop a framework linked to history that compels reader to ...
    • 'Make It Make Sense!' Reconsidering Titus Groan as Literature of the Absurd 

      Valåmo, Levi Finbak (Master thesis, 2025)
      This thesis argues against the placement of Mervyn Peake’s Titus Groan (1946) in Gothic Fantasy and is a reconsideration of the novel as one belonging to the literature of the Absurd. The thematic core of Titus Groan is a world that is ruled by a tradition which is all-encompassing and unknowable. This impenetrable tradition that rules every member of Gormenghast is comparable to Albert Camus’ ...
    • “She carry some of the blame”: An analysis of Morrison’s use of the child protagonist in Beloved and The Bluest Eye to raise awareness of racial oppression 

      Oostrum, Irana Van (Master thesis, 2025)
      This thesis explores the use of the child protagonists for activism in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and The Bluest Eye. The thesis argues that the child protagonist in both novels raise awareness in adult readers of racial oppression. The analysis of the novels through the lens of Critical Race Theory argues that the fictive depictions of racial oppression contribute to CRT’s aim to create an increased ...
    • Russian emotion nouns and their metaphorical uses 

      Almendingen, Jan Ove Nikolai (Master thesis, 2025)
      The thesis asks the question on how metaphorical constructions are used with prepositions and cases for emotion nouns. A corpus linguistic study has been performed to see what the general metaphorical tendencies exists within the Russian language. The method of this work is using a Corpus (Ruscorpora.ru) as a data collection tool. From the data collected a correspondence analysis was created to ...
    • Traversing the Abyss : A Nietzschean Interpretation of Humanity in Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey 

      Wolff-Skjelbred, Jens (Master thesis, 2025)
      This thesis provides a Nietzchean interpretation of how humanity is portrayed in Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 2001: A Space Odyssey. This is done through drawing on theories of truth, humanity and the Other, and the Burkean sublime, as well as Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and, through this, provides an analysis of how the characters Moon-Watcher and David Bowman/the Star-Child can be understood ...
    • En inngående undersøkelse av ubestemte pronomen og adverb i russisk språk. 

      Tøraasen, Eirik Nikolai (Master thesis, 2025)
      Oppsummering av viktige funn I russisk brukes ubestemte pronomen og adverb på forskjellige måter. Slik som lingvister som f.eks Terje Mathiassen, Terrence Wade eller Alan Timberlake sier, er det forskjellige bruksområder for -то og -нибудь/-либо. Det som er typisk for -нибудь er at den har i utgangspunktet flere bruksområder enn -то, men når det er sagt ser man også bruk av -то i bruk der man ...
    • "I need to focus now on the manner of my suicide": Suicidality and Survivability in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games Series 

      Ormshammer, Ingebjørg (Master thesis, 2025)
      This thesis examines what the representations of suicidality and survivability in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games series (2008-2010), tell us about one of the core elements of the human experience: whether to live or to die. Through examining the factors and situations that determine the characters’ suicidality and survivability, we get a better understanding of why people commit suicide as well ...
    • Feminism and Patriarchy in Madeline Miller's Circe and Natalie Haynes' Stone Blind 

      Velvin, Vilje Løkke (Master thesis, 2025)
      For the past two decades, rewritings of mythology have gained in popularity within literature. Rewritings of Greek myths are especially prevalent, with a common theme among many of them being women’s stories. The main goal of this thesis is to explore the effects of patriarchal social norms on women’s behavior, especially toward each other, in contemporary feminist Greek mythology rewritings. To do ...
    • Patterns in Swedish complement clauses 

      Avellan-Hultman, David Axel Evert (Master thesis, 2025)
      The thesis analyzes Swedish complement clauses from the perspective of syntactic theory, focusing on the division into propositions, situations, and events that recent literature proposes as an explanation for several crosslinguistic complementation patterns. The thesis shows, through a survey of different Swedish complement types, that the theory is essentially supported, though some complications ...
    • Casas vacías: Madres vacías 

      Ramsland, Marianne (Master thesis, 2025)
      Esta tesis analiza la novela Casas vacías (2019) de Brenda Navarro desde una perspectiva socioliteraria y feminista, con el objetivo de mostrar cómo la obra desmitifica la maternidad como fuente de identidad y realización personal. A través de las voces de dos mujeres –una madre biológica y otra que secuestra a su hijo– la novela cuestiona los ideales de la “buena madre” y revela cómo las ...
    • Análisis de Errores en el uso de los verbos existenciales "ser", "estar" y "hay" en estudiantes con autismo. 

      Jimenez Baga, Alba (Master thesis, 2025)
      I denne oppgaven har jeg forsøkt å forstå bedre hvordan er prosessen av å lære de eksistensielle verbene på spansk "ser", "estar" og "hay" i norske elever med autisme.
    • Between Heaven and Earth: An analysis of moral ambiguity in interactive fiction through Edelgard von Hresvelg from Fire Emblem: Three Houses 

      Hansen, Christian (Master thesis, 2025)
      Video games present a very distinct form of storytelling; while some games use the elements of interactivity and narrative as auxiliary features to one another, some of the greatest games blend these two facets to make interaction an intrinsic part of the narrative experience. This thesis focuses on how this is achieved through the controversial character Edelgard von Hresvelg in the video game Fire ...
    • Evaluación en la asignatura de español 

      Wikstrøm, Ida Birgitte (Master thesis, 2025)
      Forfatter: Ida Birgitte Wikstrøm, student ved lektorutdanningen i språk og samfunnsfag trinn 8-13, ved Universitetet i Tromsø ___________________________________________________________________________ Problemstilling: Evaluerer vi som spansklærere irrelevante faktorer i vurderingssituasjoner? Hvis dette er tilfelle, er det greit at det skjer? Om ikke, hva kan vi gjøre for å unngå dette – kan ...
    • Strange Attractors 

      Vangen, Knut (Master thesis, 2025)
      This thesis investigates how chaos theory, as both scientific paradigm and literary metaphor, informs narrative structure, thematic development, and character formation in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Stephen King. Focusing primarily on The Crying of Lot 49 and “Entropy” by Pynchon and The Dark Tower series by King, the study traces the ways in which concepts such as entropy, strange attractors, ...