This article examines the tension between two modes of listening presented in <i>Frankenstein</i>. Characters sometimes receive others’ stories as a confidant responsible to the storyteller and sometimes as a judge responsible to a predetermined ethical norm. Drawing on the ideas of Emmanuel Lévinas, the article shows how these two forms of listening correspond to two ethical models – the ethics ...

We present a new open-access electronic resource named the Russian Constructicon that offers a searchable database of Russian constructions accompanied by descriptions of their properties and illustrated with corpus examples. The project was carried out over the period 2016-2020 and at present contains an inventory of over 2200 multi-word constructions of Contemporary Standard Russian. We prioritize ...

In this thesis, I investigate the effect of explicit teacher instructed use of reading comprehension strategies on the reading comprehension of L1 Norwegian L2 English learners. The study was conducted in two classes in a Norwegian lower secondary school, with one class being the experimental group and the other functioned as the control group. The participants took part in a quasi-experimental ...

This study investigates whether Urban East Norwegian (hence force Norwegian) speakers realize their tonal accents on their English. One difference between these two languages is that Norwegian uses pitches to differentiate lexical items, whereas English uses pitch to indicate post-lexical contrast, i.e., to convey different pragmatic meaning. In Norwegian, both the L tone and H tone can be associated ...

Photographic recordings from the 1950s–1970s give us glimpses into the Soviet settlements on Svalbard during the Cold War period. The majority of these pictures have been taken by Norwegians during friendly exchanges with the inhabitants in Barentsburg and Pyramiden, and demonstrate how important culture and sport were as a contact zone. These pictures also testify that the Soviets invested more ...

Denne oppgaven skal ta for seg et utvalg motiver i Artemisia Gentileschis produksjon ved å foreta en komparasjon med samtidige, mannlige kunstneres framstillinger av samme motiv, med bruk av ulike teoretikere innen kjønnsteori. Målsettingen er å prøve ut teorier om det kjønnede blikk som analytisk verktøy. De motivene som skal ligge til grunn for komparasjonen er Susanna og de eldre, Judith halshugger ...

This Master's Thesis explores the phenomena of villains and their development in English literature in the period from 1893 to 2016, based on the examples of Dracula from B. Stoker's Dracula, Moriarty from A. C. Doyle's "The Final Problem”, and Voldemort from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. The analysis investigates the development of these villains and brings up the greater questions about evil ...

Are there any queer Norwegian films? How would one find out about it? The main objective of this thesis is to make visible how queer gender and sexuality are represented in the most prominent work in the Norwegian film history discourse. With writing history, there is a danger of social exclusion and this thesis found that the queer community has been marginalized in the film history book "Norsk ...

The roles of strong and independent female protagonists in Young Adult literature have been debated in the past two decades. One assumption is that female protagonists can suggest to girls that they can do whatever they aim for and develop their own voice. Kiersten White´s And I Darken (2016) demonstrates that strong and independent female protagonists are needed and the protagonist Lada Dragwyla ...