Denne masteravhandlinga handler om hvordan kvenske/norskfinske temaer blir formidla i lærebøker i fagene norsk, samfunnsfag og samfunnsvitenskap for ungdomstrinnet og Vg1. Datamaterialet er et tverrsnitt av lærebøker gitt ut etter Kunnskapsløftet 2020, og omfatter 15 trykte læreverk fra de fire største forlagene i Norge: Aschehoug, Cappelen Damm, Fagbokforlaget og Gyldendal. Kritisk diskursanalyse ...

This thesis aims to explore how Irish identity is constructed and constrained by historical and ideological forces in James Joyce’s Dubliners (1914) and Kevin Barry’s Dark Lies the Island (2012). The Irishness presented in these two books shares similarities and distinctions across almost one century, demonstrating how these comparisons develop a framework linked to history that compels reader to ...

This thesis explores the use of the child protagonists for activism in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and The Bluest Eye. The thesis argues that the child protagonist in both novels raise awareness in adult readers of racial oppression. The analysis of the novels through the lens of Critical Race Theory argues that the fictive depictions of racial oppression contribute to CRT’s aim to create an increased ...

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, ...