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Becoming HERmione. An exploration of the process of subjectivity in H.D.'s Her
(Master thesis, 2010-06-01)This thesis calls for a reevaluation of H.D.'s prose oeuvre through a close reading of the novel Her. As H.D.'s prose texts were discovered in the late seventies, they were read as manifestations of a feminist modernism ... -
Better the devil you know A study of the editing of evil in The Times and The Guardian post-7/7
(Master thesis, 2008-11-11)Oppgaven beskriver hvordan The Times and The Guardian dekket 'the London bombings', 07/07/05.Metode: Critical Discourse Analysis. -
By whatever name
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010)This paper explores the significance of naming and the role of editing practices of Shakespeare's plays: Is it Imogen or Innogen, Falstaff or Oldcastle? By looking into how editors of Shakespeare have approached these and ... -
An Echo of Chaos A Search for Order in John Webster
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Emotional unmasking of power relations. Instability of gender and power roles in M.G. Lewis's The Monk
(Master thesis, 2010-06-01)Matthew G. Lewis's gothic novel, The Monk, depicts the clerical society's moral position in the secular world. The characters live by norms which are set by society. The roles they perform function as masks which cover ... -
Framing the Frame: Shakespeare and the Cadre
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010)This article provides a conceptual introduction to the notion of Framing and functions as an introduction. n Framing the Sign, Jonathan Culler privileges the term frame over context (ix). Culler states that framing a work ... -
Freedom or Fidelity? Translation Challenges in Bente Bratlund’s Novel Porselenshunden.
(Master thesis, 2007)In this thesis, I shall look at the challenge of literary translation on the basis of discussions concerning possible translations of selected excerpts from Bente Bratlund's contemporary Norwegian novel Porselenshunden, ... -
From Mystery to Manners : A Study of Five Detective Novels by Dorothy L. Sayers
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Irish triangles - gender and nationalism in James Joyce's Ulysses
(Master thesis, 2010-05-18)In the first chapter, I explore the numerous mythic and discursive formations that represented Ireland as a woman, made contemporary by the Irish Literary Revival and British caricatures, among others. Molly Bloom, though ... -
The Linguistic Complaint Tradition in the Internet Age
(Master thesis, 2008-11-11)A study of Internet blogs as a new channel for complaints about the English language -
A Master’s Monument: Shakespeare’s Sonnets in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010)This article explores the reception of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by W.B. Yeats. In her recent study Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (2007), Helen Vendler has stressed the importance of taking the formal structures ... -
Mistaken charity? The individual in a social context in Edith Wharton's Summer
(Master thesis, 2010-05-16)This thesis explores the individual in society through the lens of ideology, naturalism and literary imagery in "Summer". -
Playing Editor: Inviting Students Behind the Text
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)This commentary feature considers the advantages of using textual criticism to teach Shakespeare and using Shakespeare to teach textual criticism, at both the undergraduate and graduate level. First I discuss how to do ... -
Shakespeare's heroines and the construction of an ideal Victorian femaleness
(Master thesis, 2010-05-17)The construction of an ideal Victorian femaleness based on Shakespeare's heroines. Works by Mary Cowden Clarke, Anna Jameson, Helena Faucit and Ellen Terry are used as examples of the ways in which Shakespeare's heroines ... -
"Those are the real gifts": Fictional representation of philanthropy in Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey and Mary Cholmondeley's Red Pottage
(Master thesis, 2010-05-18)This thesis addresses the representation of fictional philanthropy in two Victorian novels by two women writers; Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey and Mary Cholmondeley's Red Pottage. Philanthropy and the notion of the gift are ...