This thesis explores the bleak nihilistic literary universe portrayed in the novels No Country for Old Men, The Road, and The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form, by Cormac McCarthy. These works portray the cause of human civilization’s death to be the decay of morality through the absence of divine agency. Without divinity present to enforce moral laws upon the population humans are free to ...

The following thesis uses Toni Morrison’s two novels Beloved and Home to demonstrate how multiple narrative perspectives can be used to prevent as well as evoke reader’s empathy. Furthermore, the thesis suggests using her work in upper secondary school to teach students about how narrative perspectives might manipulate empathy, which can enable them to reflect upon how different perspectives affect ...

In his thesis, the main objective is to look at the connection between language and human rights in two dystopian novels, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948) and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005). This thesis also proposes how these two novels, and literary texts in general, can be taught to pupils in upper secondary school. As the lack of or loss of human rights is an element in many ...

Dutkamušastan guorahalan Vuoi dan Kárenina ja Mu ártegis eallin váldopersovnnaid ovdáneami. Dutkančuolmma juogán golmma váldooassái; váldopersovnna-, váikkuheaddji- ja ovdáneami guorahallamii. Váldopersovnna guorahallamis geahčadan persovnnaid siskkáldas ja olgguldas iešvuođaid. Guktuid teakstadujiin lea váikkuheaddji, nu gohčoduvvon katalysáhtor, guhte váikkuha sihke persovnnaid ja muitalusa juona. ...

The main focus in this thesis is metamorphoses and transformations in A.E. Stallings’ early poetry, where I explicate poems from her two volumes of poetry, Archaic Smile (1999) and Hapax (2006). The volumes share similarities, such as thematic use, however, the volumes are different on many terms as well. I argue that a shift has happened from volume one and volume two, and argue my case that Stallings ...

I min avhandling om Tarjei Vesaas’ Brannen (1961) utforsker jeg mystikken i verkets visjonære grunnlag. Hovedfokuset for mitt tolkningsarbeid ligger på symbolbruken i åpnings- og avslutningssekvensen. Gjennom et utvalg av religiøse, filosofiske og psykologiske tekster viser jeg hvordan Brannens billedmettete symbolspråk uttrykker de uutgrunnelige, transcendentale «sannheter» om menneskets sjeleliv. ...

Det imaginære nord i noen verk av Sylvain Tesson. Sammendrag - Det imaginære nord fremheves i noen verk av den franske forfatteren Sylvain Tesson (1972– ), særlig reiseskildringer: I disse er forfatterens selvfremstilling sterkt knyttet til litterære figurer og motiver som ofte karakteriserer diskursen om det nordlige. Tessons nord er hovedsakelig Sibirs taiga, sør for 63 ºN. Tekstene analyseres ...

This thesis looks at an excerpt from Peter Hulme’s book Colonial Encounters, “Prospero and Caliban”, where Hulme explores the notion that Prospero, like Shakespeare, is dramatist and creator of theatrical effects. Like Hulme, I believe that there are two plays being enacted, yet I do not share his opinion regarding Prospero as a stage director or a playwright, nor that the play within the play is a ...

In this thesis the aim is to explore the dichotomy/duality of man in three post-apocalyptic texts and discuss how and why survivors react to the post-apocalyptic setting. Since a majority of post-apocalyptic fictional texts focus on the destruction of the world set to contemporary issues, this thesis will explore how the post-apocalyptic setting will force survivors into making difficult survival ...

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner has been the subject of critical discussion for a long period of time. The discussions mainly revolve around the inconsistencies and ambiguity of the two narratives in the novel: the Editor’s and Robert Wringhim’s. This paper shows how some of this ambiguity is warranted, and how some of it is possible to diminish by perceiving the narratives ...