This thesis explores the pressure of identity applied on the two female main characters in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre respectively. It argues that Gender norms, societal expectations and pressure from loved ones try to exert power over Charlotte's and Emily's characters Jane and Catherine, with focus on concepts like lived versus performed identity and the Lord/bondsman dynamic. I explore how ...

The article focuses on patient letters sent by leprosy patients or their family members applying for place at a leprosy hospital. They were written between 1871 and 1911, are today part of the Leprosy Archives in Bergen and have not been presented, contextualised and analysed before. The article aims at both unveiling the illness experiences of those who suffered from the disease and demonstrating ...

I denne studien av Silvana Imams tekster fra 2013 til 2019 undersøkes hvordan motiver for religion og ulike former for kamp benyttes til å forhandle fram frigjøring. Frigjøringsprosjektet er på både individuelt og kollektivt nivå. For individet problematiseres måten verden og samfunnet er organisert i kategorier som kjønn, etnisitet, religion, kjønnsidentet og seksualitet. Teorier om interseksjonalitet ...

In this thesis I research the use of a diacritic mark know as a titlo and its use in Old East Slavic. Available literature suggests that titlos were used by Muscovite scribes to abbreviate words that denoted objects which were regarded as particularly sacred. However, literature on Old Rusian and Middle Russian handwriting, and Slavic paleography suggest that titlo-abbreviations may have been used ...

Even though signs of one of the worst American financial crises were already apparent by the end of the first presidential term of the Republican candidate George W. Bush, he managed to be reelected for a second term, and it can be argued that Bush’s rhetoric, which relied heavily on his famous ‘war on terror’, has contributed to his reelection. When the Democratic candidate Barack Obama was elected ...

Gengangere av Henrik Ibsen ble for første gang utgitt i spansk oversettelse i 1892. Dramaet vakte i Spania, som i Norge, stor interesse, og skulle vise seg å bli til inspirasjon for spanske dramatikere, og bidra til å skape nye tendenser for dramatikken i Spania. Den første delen av denne oppgaven vil dreie seg om en studie av Ibsens resepsjon i Spania med vekt på hvordan han ble introdusert og ...

I argue in this paper for a novel analysis of case in Icelandic, with implications for case theory in general. I argue that structural case is the manifestation on the noun phrase of features which are semantically interpretable on verbal projections. Thus, Icelandic case does not encode features of noun phrase interpretation, but it is not uninterpretable either; case is properly seen as reflecting ...

The main focus of this thesis is the manner in which Doris Lessing and J.M Coetzee construct their identities in their life writings. While Lessing has written a “classical” autobiography using the first person and past tense, Coetzee has opted for a more fictional version using the third person and the present tense. These different approaches offer us a unique opportunity to look into the manner ...