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"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 ... -
Disentangling путать. An empirical analysis of one verb with prefix variation
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-19)This thesis explores prefix variation in one Russian verb, путать. As a simplex verb that uses four prefixes to form Natural Perfectives (с-, пере-, за- and в-), путать is a good example of a verb with extensive prefix variation. The thesis consists of three separate, yet related corpus-based case studies. In my first case study, I examine the constructions and internal arguments of the Natural ... -
On the representation and selection of exponents
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article provides the reader with a general introduction to the main issues in the study of the lexicon, setting the context in which the articles presented in this volume appear. We concentrate on three questions that we consider crucial for a study of listedness: what is listed, how it is listed and how alternation and variation are expressed. We address these issues in the three main areas ... -
Kryssing av grenser. En dokumentasjonsvitenskaplig vurdering av behovet for kjønnsdefinering
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-06-02)Avhandlingens formål er å undersøke hvorvidt man kan bruke en dokumentvitenskapelig modell som utgangspunkt for å undersøke dokumenteringen av kjønn i et bestemt dokument. For analyse benyttes en tverrfaglig komplementær dokumentvitenskapelig modell. Dokumentet pass blir analysert først som et hoveddokument, blant annet med en analyse av fysiske bestanddeler. Deretter analyseres den delen av passet ... -
Ethical Recognition of Marginalized Groups in Digital Games Culture
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Play vs. Procedures
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Automatic Identification of Shared Arguments in Verbal Coordinations
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015)We describe automatic conversion of the SynTagRus dependency treebank of Russian to the PROIEL format (with the ultimate purpose of obtaining a single-format diachronic treebank spanning more than a thousand years), focusing on analysis of shared arguments in verbal coordinations. Whether arguments are shared or private is not marked in the SynTagRus native format, but the PROIEL format indicates ... -
Noen trekk ved fornavnsskikken i Saltdal - med vekt på 1800-tallet
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-12-13)Avhandlingen omhandler fornavn, navnestatistikk, 1800-tallet, Saltdal, moten med bibelske navn rundt år 2000 -
Los verbos mudables Una investigación acerca de la relación entre aspecto y significado en predicados estativos
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-09-10)I denne oppgaven studeres de språklige forhold i spansk som må gjelde for at et tilstandsverb (estado) skal forvandles til å være et begivenhetsverb (logro) når det opptrer i tid-aspekt-formen indefinido. a. `Sabe la noticia` (estado) – ` Vite nyheten` (tilstand) b. `Supo la noticia`(logro) – `Fikk vite nyheten` (begivenhet) I studien sammenliknes to kategorier tilstandsverb i spansk gjennom ... -
"First I was an explorer; then I was an artist." Robert J. Flaherty som fotograf
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"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. ... -
The emergence of middle voice readings with and without agents
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-05-30)This article presents evidence that, cross-linguistically or within the same language (family), there appears to be no morphosyntactic properties and/ or structures specifically designated for the formation of middle voice constructions. What has been labeled a ‘middle voice construction’ is a semantic interpretation that, crucially, is blocked when an event variable is existentially closed by T. ... -
Notes on exponents. A review of J. Trommer (ed.), The morphology and phonology of exponence
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Morphological variation in Spanish
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Argument structure and morphologically underived nouns in Spanish and English
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Historiske livsstudier
(Book; Bok, 1995)Hvorfor drage til Paris for at arbejde med et dansk sogns historie? Dette spørgsmål rejsste lokalhistorikeren Per Gammelgaard i sin anmeldelse af en antologi vedr. nye strømninger indenfor dansk lokalhistorie.1 Spørgsmålet var specielt møntet på mit bidrag, hvor jeg skrev om hvad dansk lokal- historie kunne hente i den franske historievidenskabelige tradition ved navn Annales-skolen. Man ...
