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Harry Potter and the different accents. A sociolinguistic study of language attitudes in Harry Potter and Game of Thrones
(Master thesis, 2013-05-15)This MA Thesis deals with the aspect of language attitudes portrayed in popular media, more specifically in Harry Potter and Game of Thrones. The main aim is to see whether there is a systematic correlation between character ... -
"Hearts recycled but never saved" - A Search for self in the modern day dystopia of green day's American Idiot
(Master thesis, 2016-05-15)Despite ten years of gradually decreasing commercial success, the American rock band Green Day soared back to stardom with their 2004 concept album American Idiot. By academics and laymen alike, the album has been looked ... -
Herodotus, Dionysus, and the Greek death taboo. The Homeric hymn to Demeter and the construction of the "chthonic" in Greek literary tradition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009)Herodotus’ explicit avoidance of the mentioning of divine names and matters in the second book of the Histories counts in most cases as instances of the Greek taboo concerning the relation of gods to the impurity of death, ... -
Heteroglossic Masculinities: Multilingualism in Armée du salut and Princesa
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04)The article examines the literary representation of masculinities in the context of border crossings in the Mediterranean area and specifcally the relationship between multilingualism and gender identity. The discussion ... -
Hinab und Hinauf. Die Todes- und Auferstehungsmythen und die Entwicklung Josephs in Thomas Manns Joseph-Roman
(Master thesis, 2008-11-18)Thomas Mann sin Joseph-roman hentar stoffet sitt frå 1. Mosebok 25-30 og handlar om Joseph og brørne hans. Hovudpersonen, Joseph, blir i romanen stilt i ei mytisk utviklingslinje som går frå dei mytiske figurane Tammuz og ... -
Historieundervisning i Putins Russland: Skoleverkets lærebøker før og etter ideen om "enhetlig læreverk i historie"
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A History of silence: Representations and aesthetics in John Okada's No-No Boy and Julie Otsuka's When the emperor was divine.
(Master thesis, 2018-06-05)Denne oppgaven tar for seg japansk-amerikansk litteratur og den demokratiske rollen den innehar i ettermælet av den andre verdenskrig. I de litterære representasjonene av interneringen av japanske og japansk-amerikanske ... -
Hostility online: Flaming, trolling, and the public debate
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Whereas the amount of hostility found online increases, scholarly interest in online hostility is decreasing. In this paper, I discuss three questions central to the study of online hostility, namely 1) what role the text, ... -
How Did Italians Communicate when There Was No Italian? Italo-Romance Intercomprehension in the Late Middle Ages
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05)Historians (including historians of oral and written culture, and to some extent also literary historians) have long been aware of the role of Latin as a potential barrier to intelligibility, but they have very rarely ... -
How do Norwegian EFL learners in their first year of upper secondary school experience encounters with English literature? A case study
(Master thesis, 2015-08-31)The aim of my research is to investigate and discuss how upper secondary EFL pupils experience encounters with English literature. My research intends to find answers to the questions of how they approach English literature ... -
How do textbooks in International English invite students to expand their intercultural perspectives through tasks related to texts about multiculturalism?
(Master thesis, 2014-09-01)The present thesis investigates tasks in textbooks in International English taught the second year at the Upper Secondary level in Norway. The study aims to investigate how tasks may teach students about culture to better ... -
How Norwegian EFL teachers perceive the roles of literature and multimodal texts in our digitalized society. A mixed methods study in English didactics
(Master thesis, 2017-12-13)Denne masteroppgåva er skriven i fagområdet engelsk didaktikk. Den har hatt som mål å belyse engelsklærarar i den norske vidaregåande skulen sine syn på og erfaringar med bruken av skjønnlitteratur og multimodale tekstar ... -
How politicians and the population attribute responsibility for climate change mitigation: no indication of a ‘governance trap’ in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Previous research claims that ‘the most significant risk’ to achieving climate change mitigation goals is the ‘governance trap’, whereby governments and the public attribute responsibility for action to one another. While ... -
The Humanities of Contagion: How Literary and Visual Representations of the "Spanish" Flu Pandemic Complement, Complicate and Calibrate COVID-19 Narratives
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)My article examines how literary and visual representations of the “Spanish” Flu contagion foreshadow and generate critical discourses about pandemics. D.H. Lawrence’s novella The Fox characterises paranoia about biological ... -
Humanity is a pack of cards. A study on the use and translation of creative metaphorical expressions in the language pair Norwegian Bokmål and American English
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)This thesis is about the use and translation of creative metaphorical expressions, based upon conceptual metaphors. The aim of this thesis is to investigate how creative metaphorical expressions are used in novels, and how ... -
“Humans bring food to their mouths, animals bring their mouths to food”—The morality politics of school-lunch sporks in 1970s Japan
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)We are not only what we eat, but how. This article examines the 1970s’ morality politics of spork usage that accompanied the rollout of rice in school lunches. I argue that these discourses about the material culture and ... -
Hva trenger tolkestudenten for å lære?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Students of public service interpreting come from a variety of backgrounds. A typical group of interpreting students includes a mix of students from different immigrant communities and from Norway’s majority population ... -
Hvem er Viktor Pelevins Homo Post-Sovjeticus? Betraktninger over psykologiske, ontologiske og samfunnsmessige implikasjoner i to av Viktor Pelevins romaner
(Master thesis, 2013-05-15)En oppgave om subjektet i det nye Russland, og dets forhold til sin virkelighet.