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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...