Mastergradsoppgaver i litteratur: Nye registreringer
Viser treff 101-120 av 229
-
"Og hans sjel var både sort og hvit". Hvordan bruke Hamsun i dybdelæring for å øke elevenes litterære kompetanse?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-13)Gjennom flere år som ungdomsskolelærer har jeg kjent på stresset med å skulle nå alle kompetansemålene som er bestemt av Utdanningsdirektoratet, samtidig som undervisningen skal være interessant og variert slik at kunnskapen sitter hos elevene etterpå. Da jeg for noen år siden skulle planlegge undervisning rundt Hamsun og nyromantikken, slo det meg at denne tidsepoken med sitt “ubevisste sjeleliv” ... -
Homelessness, Displacement and Identity: Open City and Home
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-09-20)Abstract This thesis sets out to explore the themes of homelessness, displacement and identity in two contemporary novels: Marilynne Robinson’s Home (2008) and Teju Cole’s Open City (2011). My method involves comparing how temporality (time), space/place and its effects on subjectivity work as means to enhance an understanding of a “homeless” or hybrid condition that is evident both in the immensity ... -
I Am No Angel. Struggles of Identity in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-21)This thesis explores the pressure of identity applied on the two female main characters in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre respectively. It argues that Gender norms, societal expectations and pressure from loved ones try to exert power over Charlotte's and Emily's characters Jane and Catherine, with focus on concepts like lived versus performed identity and the Lord/bondsman dynamic. I explore how ... -
Ethics, Democracy and Education in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, and the New Reform of Education in Norway. An Approach to teaching these works in Norwegian upper secondary school
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-15)The following thesis investigates how two novels, Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999), demonstrate ethical dilemmas and how they can be used to help students develop ethical awareness and educate democratic citizens with the ability to think critically. Furthermore, this thesis discusses and suggests ways and approaches to teaching these literary works in upper secondary ... -
Intercultural Competence and Postcolonialism in Nye’s Habibi and Gordimer’s “Loot”. Promoting democracy and citizenship through literature in the Norwegian EFL classroom
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-15)There is broad agreement that the current use of literature in the Norwegian EFL classroom is not realizing its full educational potential due to a lack of practical approaches and an over ambitious curriculum. Thus, literature has become a rare and limited occurrence where students are asked to read for content and linguistical features, rather than for personal enjoyment and growth. The purpose ... -
Encounters between Native Americans and Whites in James Welch's Historical Novels Fools Crow and The Heartsong of Charging Elk
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-14)This thesis examines encounters between Native Americans and whites in James Welch’s historical novels Fools Crow and The Heartsong of Charging Elk. I wish to show that the encounters are forced and happen against the background of imperialism and colonialism, and occur between peoples of unequal powers. In the novels, traditional Native American culture is profoundly affected by the encroaching ... -
Narrating the Migration Experience. How can the use of young adult migrant narratives and authentic experience in the EFL classroom increase both knowledge and understanding regarding society, history and adolescent migrant identity?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-04-11)This thesis explores how Said’s idea of Orientalism; how the Self mirrors the Other and recognizes otherness, and how these terms and processes influence and interfere with the establishment of personal identity. However, considerable examples in YA migration narrative demonstrate how Orientalism and othering are outdated and archaic mechanisms of identification, although they still intervene with ... -
The Hunger Games. A Feminist Approach through Gender Performance
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-04-23)This thesis seeks to examine and analyse Suzanne Collins’s trilogy The Hunger Games from a feminist perspective. It will explore the portrayal of various characters in the series, with a special focus on the protagonist Katniss Everdeen. In essence, the analysis will revolve around gender performance, gender expectations and gender formation, and the way the author challenges the reader regarding ... -
"Det var på den tiden hun begynte å komme oftere". Erlend Loes Tatt av kvinnen adaptert til film
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-10-30)Sammendrag «Det var på den tiden hun begynte å komme oftere». Slik introduseres den kvinnelige hovedpersonen Marianne i Erlend Loes første roman Tatt av kvinnen (1993). Marianne nøyer seg ikke med å komme oftere, på kort tid invaderer hun livet til den navnløse hovedpersonen, som i liten grad klarer å tydeliggjøre for Marianne hvordan han opplever det. I min masteroppgave sammenligner jeg romanen ... -
An Investigation of Empathy in James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-02-15)This master’s thesis aims to look at how empathy is thematized in James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues.” To do this, the thesis will start by introducing affect theory. Affect aims to put emotions back into the study of literature. Emotions become even more important because of the notion of empathy. Empathy is the ability to imagine oneself in somebody else’s shoes. Baldwin’s short story invites empathetic ... -
"One's life is peculiary one's own when one has invented it." En lesning av kjønnstematikk i Djuna Barnes' roman Nightwood.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2000-05)”I am the most famous unknown of the century!” Slik lød selvkarakteristikken fra Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) i et brev til forfatterkollegaen Natalie Barney i 1963.<sup>1</sup> Da var Barnes 71 år og hadde forlengst avskrevet muligheten for en bred litterær anerkjennelse etter å ha forfattet Nightwood, romanen denne oppgaven har som mål å si noe om. Når vi nå skriver 2000, 37 år senere, har dette ... -
The Short Story Cycle: A Marginalized Genre for Marginalized Stories. A Genre Critique of Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-11-20)The short story cycle is an overlooked genre, often dismissed by critics as a short story collection. This lack of attention paid to the interconnectedness between the short stories within a work diminishes the work as a whole by not acknowledging the value added by the relation between the short stories. In the background presented in this thesis, the classification of Sandra Cisneros’s Woman ... -
The Great Gatsby - flappers and philosophers in the upper secondary classroom. A historical-biographical reading, watching and studying of Fitzgerald's novel
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-11-16)This master's thesis tries out a historical-biographical approach to the challenge of teaching English literature in Norwegian upper secondary schools in three steps according to three curricular aims. In selecting The Great Gatsby for this purpose, I discover the opportunity to kill several birds with one stone when I enable my students to interpret and analyse the novel, compare to film versions, ... -
The Ethics of Proximity in Literature: An Ethical Reading of Immediacy in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron and Foe
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-11-01)In this project, I present a reading of ethics and politics in John Maxwell Coetzee’s Foe (1986) and Age of Iron (1990) based on Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy on proximity. By deploying the ethics of proximity into the ethical reading of the relationships between Mrs. Curren and Vercueil in Age of Iron and between Susan and Friday in Foe, a sense of resistance towards the political dimensions of ... -
Fan Fiction and Authorship. Secondary Authors and Their Role in the Evolution of the Author Construct and Canonicity
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-10-30)This thesis explores the author role as a complex construct in relation to the notion of canonicity, investigating the relationship between authors, their original works, fan authors and fan authors’ works of fan fiction. Four major works have been chosen for analysis, Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study In Scarlet (1887), J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007), Anthony Horowitz’ ... -
En gåte pakket inn i et mysterium inni en hemmelighet. En lesning av Jan Kjærstads Rand.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-30)I denne avhandlingen ligger hovedfokuset på å forstå Rand av Jan Kjærstad. Men det er en intrikat roman. Det er en roman med et meningsinnhold som for leseren kan være umulig å forstå. Vi følger Rand-personen som hjelper politiet med å løse drapene han selv har begått. Han formulerer seg på en måte som tilser at han er fullstendig klar over at han har myrdet. Samtidig som han tilsynelatende er klar ... -
Lærebøkenes makt over multimodale teksters prakt. En studie av tre lærebøkers fokus på multimodale tekster
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-16)Multimodale tekster er en teksttype man ser i økende grad i samfunnet, og derfor er det viktig at elever får tilstrekkelig opplæring i denne teksttypen. Lærebøkene er viktige hjelpemidler i opplæringen, og derfor har jeg valgt å se på hvordan lærebøkene tar for seg multimodale tekster. Målet med denne oppgaven er å besvare følgende problemstilling: Hvordan behandles emnet multimodale tekster i ulike ... -
Andvake-trilogien – en etisk tolkning. Det uklare skillet mellom godt og ondt i Jon Fosses Andvake-trilogi
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-15)Masteroppgaven er en etisk perspektivert tolkning av Jon Fosses Andvake-trilogi. Jeg har sett på forholdet mellom det gode og det onde i trilogien, og hvordan trilogiens personer er fremstilt. Dette har jeg gjort ved å gi sentrale personer karakteranalyser forløpende i analysekapitlene. Masteroppgaven inneholder fire analysekapittel: Det første analysekapitlet handler om hvem som er gode og onde i ... -
Det underbetonte irske innslaget i islendingesagaer, tætter og landnåmslitteratur. – Gælisk-keltiske elementer tolket i lys av tekster med etnisk-litterært motiverte diskurser og motivutviklinger omkring irske trelle- og oksemotiv
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-15)De to første kapitler av Det underbetonte irske innslaget i islendingesagaer, tætter og landnåmslitteratur har presentert grunnlaget for oppgaven; aktuelle kilder, perioder og teorier, samt historisk bakgrunnsmateriale om landnåmet, slavehold og annet. Kapittel 3 fokuserer, via teksteksempler fra oversatt primærlitteratur, på trellemotivet og viser i hvilke kontekster (irske) treller inngår og hvordan ... -
Uncovering the Obscene in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and John Irving’s The Hotel New Hampshire – A Critical Analysis of Cultural Divisions
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-05-11)This thesis examines the obscene, particularly through three taboo motifs present in John Irving’s The Hotel New Hampshire, and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. I will explore the effect and treatment of issues like incest, rape, and sexual dissidence. Through this analysis of the obscene, I wish to illuminate that there exist inherent similarities between these novels in how the obscene is made conspicuous ...