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 ...

For the past two decades, rewritings of mythology have gained in popularity within literature. Rewritings of Greek myths are especially prevalent, with a common theme among many of them being women’s stories. The main goal of this thesis is to explore the effects of patriarchal social norms on women’s behavior, especially toward each other, in contemporary feminist Greek mythology rewritings. To do ...

Esta tesis analiza la novela Casas vacías (2019) de Brenda Navarro desde una perspectiva socioliteraria y feminista, con el objetivo de mostrar cómo la obra desmitifica la maternidad como fuente de identidad y realización personal. A través de las voces de dos mujeres –una madre biológica y otra que secuestra a su hijo– la novela cuestiona los ideales de la “buena madre” y revela cómo las ...

Video games present a very distinct form of storytelling; while some games use the elements of interactivity and narrative as auxiliary features to one another, some of the greatest games blend these two facets to make interaction an intrinsic part of the narrative experience. This thesis focuses on how this is achieved through the controversial character Edelgard von Hresvelg in the video game Fire ...

This thesis investigates how chaos theory, as both scientific paradigm and literary metaphor, informs narrative structure, thematic development, and character formation in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Stephen King. Focusing primarily on The Crying of Lot 49 and “Entropy” by Pynchon and The Dark Tower series by King, the study traces the ways in which concepts such as entropy, strange attractors, ...

In this thesis I try to show that using poetry, especially E. E. Cummings’ poetry, to provide interdisciplinary value to classes on historical events, such as the World Wars, is productive. To support this claim I collected data from two groups of participants in lower secondary school. After two sessions, one for each World War, I distributed a questionnaire to gather their opinions on the sessions, ...

This thesis investigates the interplay between bilingualism, socioeconomic status (SES), and social language engagement, and their impact on neurocognitive adaptation and inhibitory control throughout life. By analyzing data from 169 adults in Northern Norway, it provides new insights into how these factors contribute to cognitive resilience and executive functions. The study's mixed-method approach, ...

The concepts of cognitive efficiency (CE) and expertise-dependent automaticity are central to the understanding of cognitive adaptations related to bilingual experiences. This study examined their behavioral manifestations in bilingual young adults by manipulating the cognitive load of a working memory task; the possibility to manipulate the difficulty of a cognitive task is necessary to observe ...

This thesis seeks to explore the potential of BookTok in upper-secondary school classrooms, and its connection to enhanced pleasure reading amongst adolescents. BookTok is a recent phenomenon and the term describes a reading subcommunity on the TikTok app, a social medium that has grown immensely in popularity amongst the younger generations for the past few years. Through analysis of the community ...