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Breaking the silence: Power relations and sexual violence in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Valerie Martin's Property
(Master thesis, 2013-05-29)Octavia E. Butler's Kindred (2003) and Valerie Martin's Property (2003) revisit slavery as a site of memory and offer alternative perspectives on America's history, which critique and complement the historical master ... -
Bride and Prejudice: A Feminist Perspective
(Master thesis, 2008-12-15)This thesis discusses, with a feminist perspective, Gurinder Chadha's film Bride and Prejudice. Using Jane Austen's novel to show womens' situation twohundred years ago in comparison to Indian womens' situation today. It ... -
Britannia still rules the waves. Norwegian teachers' and students' attitudes to British English and American English
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)This MA thesis investigates Norwegian teachers' and students' attitudes toward British English and American English. To the best of my knowledge no previous language studies have been conducted on both of these groups in ... -
"But if you can't fix it you got a stand it" Determinism in Postcards and Selected Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)This thesis is interested in examining how determinism shapes the characters in Postcards and a selection of the Wyoming Stories by Ameican author Annie Proulx. Throughout this thesis it becomes clear that Proulx's characters ... -
Cardiff English: A sociolinguistic study of phonological variation and change in Cardiff English
(Master thesis, 2017-06-08)Denne masteroppgaven utforsker den fonetiske utviklingen i den Cardiff Engelske aksenten. Med utgangspunkt i fem forskjellige fonetiske trekk, ser jeg på utviklingen fra et bruk av tradisjonelle til nye supra-regionale ... -
Class Critique in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)My thesis argues that there are significant similarities between the ways that Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905) and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) contribute to a critique of prevailing class ... -
Code-switching in The Wire
(Master thesis, 2013-05-15)This MA thesis examines the use of code-switching in six characters in the HBO series The Wire. Three Afro-American and three Caucasian characters, placed in the low, middle and high social stratum, were chosen. The aim ... -
Collocations and Teaching: Investigating word combinations in two English textbooks for Norwegian upper secondary school students
(Master thesis, 2009-11-20)This master thesis is concerned with the teaching of collocations in upper secondary school level in Norway. The scope of this study is to investigate vocabulary exercises in two textbooks used for the teaching of English ... -
Constructed identities A Chronotopic reading of The Great Gatsby, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and Mad Men
(Master thesis, 2016-05-18)This thesis aims to explore how the past figures in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925), Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955), and in the AMC series Mad Men (2007-2015), written by Matthew Weiner. ... -
Constructions of a Life: (Be)Longing and (Dis)Location in the Autobiographical Writings of Edward Said, Eva Hoffman, and Ihab Hassan
(Master thesis, 2009-12-04)This thesis will examine the autobiographical writings of Edward Said, Eva Hoffman and Ihab Hassan, and the main objective will be to study how their individual experiences of cultural translocation shape their narrative ... -
Contesting the Rural Idyll in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)This project examines the rural idyll genre in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford. Several literary critics refer to Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford as a rural idyll' narrative. In consequence the novel is considered to pertain to ... -
"The Contrails Streaked Cleanly in the High Sky" An Ecocritical Reading of Don DeLillo's White Noise and Underworld
(Master thesis, 2012-11-20)This thesis will examine the articulation, significance, and changing notion of the environment in two novels by the American author Don DeLillo: White Noise (1985) and Underworld (1997). This thesis will read DeLillo's ... -
Crisis and Infantilization in the Technological Landscapes of Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano (1952), J.G. Ballard's Crash (1973) and Dave Eggers' The Circle (2013)
(Master thesis, 2015-11-27)Literature has a long history of articulating the dangers as well as the possibilities for human life in confrontation with technology. Among the literatures expressing these concerns we also find Player Piano (1952) by ... -
David Malouf's "Remembering Babylon" and "An Imaginary Life:" Identity Processes in the Postcolonial Borderland
(Master thesis, 2008-11-13)This thesis discusses David Malouf's two novels Remembering Babylon and An Imaginary Life and how they represent the meeting between self and other in the postcolonial borderland. By linking postcolonial theory and border ... -
Digital Anxiety: Examining Maslow’s Theory of Needs in Microserfs, Super Sad True Love Story, and The Circle
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The Digital space in the English classroom. A study of the use of digital tools in the teaching of EFL in the Norwegian Upper Secondary School.
(Master thesis, 2016-05-11)This study aims to say something about the difference between teachers of EFL in upper secondary when it comes to digital skills and the use of digital tools. It will also look at the differences between the counties as a ... -
Digital tasks in English Vg1, Norway.-Do digital tasks used for learning English Vg1 promote Students’ communicative competence?
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)In recent decades the focus on technology has made its way into the teaching profession. With the introduction of computers and the Internet in upper secondary schools in Norway, there has been an increased attention to ... -
Digitization and English. A study of the role of formal and informal ICT practices in students’ development of digital skills through the English subject
(Master thesis, 2016-11-21)It is a fact that computer technology has become an important part of our daily lives. Consequently, these technologies are incorporated in all the subjects in Norwegian schools. In the matter of the English subject, the ... -
The Discomfort of civilization: Destabilizing the Bildungsroman in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out and Jacob's Room
(Master thesis, 2016-05-17)Throughout her authorship Virginia Woolf was fascinated by the relationship between the individual and society and with finding literary forms to express the changing conceptions of selfhood, of subject formation, and of ... -
Edinburgh Jockney? A socio-phonological study of accent variation and change in Edinburgh English
(Master thesis, 2013-05-14)Since the 1980s, several studies (particularly Stuart-Smith et al. 2007) have shown an increase in the use of non-local, English- English variants in various Scottish English accents. London English features like TH Fronting, ...