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Reconfiguring the absurd? A reading of Robert Serumaga’s A Play, Majangwa and The Elephants
(Master thesis, 2017-12-02)This thesis is an exploration of Robert Serumaga’s reconfiguration of elements of theatre of the absurd into what I call the absurdist idiom in his plays. Through a close reading of his plays A Play (1967), The Elephants ... -
Reflexiones sobre la idea de comunicatividad para la clase de español como lengua extranjera en Noruega
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Este artículo se concibe como una reflexión acerca de la idea central de comunicatividad en la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras en la educación reglada noruega. Más concretamente, el objetivo es examinar sucintamente los ... -
The Reinvention of the Original: The Self-Translations of María Luisa Bombal and Rosario Ferré
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Releyendo a María Luisa Bombal: nuevas perspectivas sobre "La amortajada"
(Master thesis, 2008-05-14)Esta tesis de maestría es sobre todo un estudio sobre la novela "La amortajada" de María Luisa Bombal. Se constituye por tres capítulos. El primer capítulo es una discusión de tendencias generales en la crítica bombaleana. ... -
Religiøs identitet og tilhørighet. En undersøkelse blant arabisktalende migranter.
(Master thesis, 2017-12-13)This work is a qualitative study on the relationship between the religion of Islam and integration. I try to investigate the way Islam can be an obstacle or an advantage to the integration of practicing Muslims in the ... -
Remembrance of Homes Past: The Narration of Memory in Baumgartner's Bombay, The Bus Stopped and The God of Small Things
(Master thesis, 2012-05-14)This thesis explores how the concept of memory unfolds through the narration of memories, and how the threefold relationship; memory, the remembered and the one remembering, is given narrative form. In this thesis I am ... -
Representasjoner av målspråksområdet i fremmedspråksfaget. En studie av Latin-Amerika i lærebøker i spansk
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Representations of the future in English language blogs on climate change
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11)This paper investigates how the notion of future is represented in a large corpus of English-language blogs related to climate change, with an overarching interest in exploring to what extent the perspectives of gloom-and-doom ... -
Representing the “Other”: Imposing and resisting definitions
(Master thesis, 2018-10-03)“Fremmedgjøring” (“othering”) er et resultat av fordommer, stereotyper og essensialisme, og betyr at man reduserer det “fremmede” til et objekt ved å bare fokusere på enkelte karakteristikker av en kultur (Dahl 2013: 70). ... -
Representing, Performing and Tracing the "Mammyscript"
(Master thesis, 2015-05-16)Since her origination in the antebellum South and up to around the 1960s the majority of the portrayals of the African American domestic worker in American literature represented her as the mammy. Improved rights for African ... -
Représentations de la femme africana dans « le cycle de l’ombre et la lumière » de Léonora Miano
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-11-06)This research focuses on the image of black women in Léonora Miano’s African-themed novels. They form the “cycle de l’ombre et la lumière” which is made up of La Saison de l’ombre, the trilogy “Suite Africaine” composed ... -
Représentations de la vieillesse dans la littérature . Un conte, une nouvelle et un roman du XIXe siècle
(Master thesis, 2016-11-21)L'objectif principal de notre mémoire a été de chercher des descriptions littéraires de la vieillesse, et d'étudier la vieillesse comme thème littéraire, principalement dans la littérature française. Notre but est de faire ... -
Researching intercultural competence in language learners: Gaps between theory and methodology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Traditional approaches to intercultural competence (IC) in language learning have been criticised for reproducing cultural differentialism, a theoretical perspective which emphasises that people are different due to essential ... -
Researching Multilingualism in Lower Secondary Schools : New Theoretical Perspectives and Methodological Approaches
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-02-14)Sammendrag De fire artiklene som er drøftet i denne synopsisen inneholder hovedbidragene mine til forskningsprosjektet Ungspråk, en treårig, blandet metodestudie utført av Institutt for fremmedspråk ved Universitetet i ... -
Rethinking approaches to intercultural competence and literary reading in the 21st century English as a foreign language classroom
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-06-14)Rethinking approaches to intercultural competence and literary reading in the 21st century English as a foreign language classroom revolves around an issue which has been pivotal in educational research in recent years: ... -
Rettstolking og rettssikkerhet i et norsk perspektiv
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)This article comprises a critical report on the status of court interpreting in Norway. The findings are based on an analysis of examples from the Bergen City Court and a survey of court interpreters in Norway. The first ... -
A Return to Nature - A Critique of the Pastoral in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native
(Master thesis, 2015-05-14)Abstract This thesis is an ecocritical study of how Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (1878) works as a critique of the pastoral genre. First of all, the analysis is based on the reading that Return was written well ... -
Rhetorical citizenship and the environment
(Journal article, 2023)In this paper, I discuss rhetorical studies’ contribution to the study of environmental communication. With the concept of rhetorical environmental citizenship, I emphasize rhetorical scholarship's concern with citizens’ ... -
Rhythm and rhyme - The Political aesthetics of the jazz poetry of Langston Hughes and Yona Harvey
(Master thesis, 2018-06-09)Denne oppgaven utforsker jazzens estetiske uttrykk i poesi og hva den politiske meningen bak denne jazzen betyr. Med dette som basis ser jeg på jazzpoetene Langston Hughes (1902-1967) og Yona Harvey (1974-), og sammenligner ...