Mastergradsoppgaver i litteratur: Recent submissions
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Garra boját ja fiinna nieiddat - Heteronormativitehta sámi čáppagirjjálašvuođas
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-22)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, ... -
Remembering Apartheid. Investigating Resistance in Mark Mathabane's Kaffir Boy
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-14)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 ... -
Representation of Asperger Syndrome in Contemporary Fiction
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-15)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 ... -
Margie Orford’s Hybrid Narratives: Crime Fiction Subgenres and the Theme of Misogyny in Daddy’s Girl and Like Clockwork
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-29)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 ... -
Fistfighting "Super Injun". Reinscribing Native American Literature in the English Classroom
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-15)This thesis examines ways in which Native Americans are portrayed in literature by analyzing two of Sherman Alexie's short stories "This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona", and "Because my Father Always Said he Was the only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock", as well as the movies "Pocahontas" (1995) and "Smoke Signals" (Alexie, 1998). The Native ... -
The Apocalypse and its Aftermath. Society, Survival and Accountability in The Road and Oryx and Crake
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-28)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 ... -
The Nihilistic Cosmos of Cormac McCarthy's Later Works
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-16)This thesis explores the bleak nihilistic literary universe portrayed in the novels No Country for Old Men, The Road, and The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form, by Cormac McCarthy. These works portray the cause of human civilization’s death to be the decay of morality through the absence of divine agency. Without divinity present to enforce moral laws upon the population humans are free to ... -
"But you can't get me out of the story". Feminist Revision of Fairy Tales in Short Stories by Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-29)Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter are but two of many authors who have appropriated the fairy tale genre and used its plethora of tales as intertext and playground for their artistic vision. This thesis will look selected stories from The Bloody Chamber (1979), Bluebeard’s Egg (1983) and Good Bones (1992). These collections engage with the fairy-tale canon, in both form, content and intertext, and ... -
Narrative empathy in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Home. An approach to teaching these works in upper secondary school in Norway
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-14)The following thesis uses Toni Morrison’s two novels Beloved and Home to demonstrate how multiple narrative perspectives can be used to prevent as well as evoke reader’s empathy. Furthermore, the thesis suggests using her work in upper secondary school to teach students about how narrative perspectives might manipulate empathy, which can enable them to reflect upon how different perspectives affect ... -
Mental illness in literature. Seeing and recognizing mental illness in Conrad’s ‘The Idiots’, Poe’s ‘The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether’ and Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-29)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. ... -
Language and human rights in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Never Let Me Go
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-15)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 ... -
Gender Performativity in The Handmaid's Tale and The Hunger Games
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-29)This thesis is about female characters and gender in two dystopian novels, The Handmaid’s Tale and the contemporary phenomenon The Hunger Games, and how they relate to each other and to men. The larger focus will be on individual freedom through gender performance through the references to the romance plot, thus emphasizing gender as a social construct. Further this work explores how the gender ... -
"Váikkuheapmi - hástaleapmi - ovdáneapmi" Vuoi dan Kárenina ja Mu ártegis eallin váldopersovnnaid ovdáneapmi sosiála oktavuođain
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-11-17)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. ... -
Pyongyang – Den vestlige reisende på terskelen til en satirisk dystopi
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-11-13)Denne mastergradsavhandlingen tar for seg Guy Delisles grafiske reiseskildring Pyongyang - En tegnet og meget begrenset reise i Nord-Korea (2008).Lesningen tar utgangspunkt i og utfordrer førstepersonsfortelleren Delisles perspektiv i skildringen. Hvordan viser han sitt perspektiv? Hva forteller det oss? Og i hvor stor grad kan vi stole på det? Jeg forsøker dermed å undersøke hvordan Delisle formidler ... -
“Ariadne and the rest”: Metamorphoses and transformations in A.E. Stallings' early poetry
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-11-15)The main focus in this thesis is metamorphoses and transformations in A.E. Stallings’ early poetry, where I explicate poems from her two volumes of poetry, Archaic Smile (1999) and Hapax (2006). The volumes share similarities, such as thematic use, however, the volumes are different on many terms as well. I argue that a shift has happened from volume one and volume two, and argue my case that Stallings ... -
Making of Arctic heroes. Charles Brower’s Fifty Years below Zero, Jan Welzl’s Thirty Years in the Golden North, and ideas of Arctic heroism and national character
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-11-19)This thesis examines literary representation and imaginative construction of arctic heroism and national character in autobiographical memoirs Fifty years Below Zero by Charles Brower (an U.S. writer) and Thirty Years in the Golden North by Jan Welzl (a Czech author from the Austro-Hungarian Empire). I discuss the ways Brower and Welzl fashion heroic images of themselves in their texts, and how these ... -
"Brannen" og det mystiske erfaringspotensialet
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-06-03)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. ... -
«Hva sier vi når vi sier jeg?» En studie av estetikk og performativitet i den selvframstillende litteraturen, med særlig vekt på skambegrepet i Karl Ove Knausgårds "Min kamp"
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-15)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 ... -
Le Nord imaginaire dans quelques œuvres de Sylvain Tesson
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-05-19)Det imaginære nord i noen verk av Sylvain Tesson. Sammendrag - Det imaginære nord fremheves i noen verk av den franske forfatteren Sylvain Tesson (1972– ), særlig reiseskildringer: I disse er forfatterens selvfremstilling sterkt knyttet til litterære figurer og motiver som ofte karakteriserer diskursen om det nordlige. Tessons nord er hovedsakelig Sibirs taiga, sør for 63 ºN. Tekstene analyseres ... -
Grenseoverskridelser og samfunnskritisk blikk i Knut Ødegårds diktsamling " Det blomstra så sinnsjukt."
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-05-15)Masteroppgaven tar for seg det samfunnskritiske perspektivet, og de grenseoverskridende elementene, i Ødegårds diktsamling "Det blomstra så sinnsjukt." De grenseoverskridende elementene kan på mange måter sees i sammenheng med samfunnskritikken, en kritikk som først og fremst ligger implisitt i diktene. En sentral teoretiker i denne oppgaven er Mikhail Bakhtin. Bakhtin var grunnleggende opptatt av ...