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Mobility, Place and Identity in Women's Road Narratives: A Spatial Analysis of Mona Simpson's 'Anywhere but Here' and Barbara Kingsolver's 'The Bean Trees'
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2018-05-29)This thesis sets out to explore women's road narratives in terms of mobility, place and identity. Since the publication of Jack Kerouac's masterpiece On the Road, road narratives have been a recurring feature in American literature and culture. However, the female aspect of this genre remains under-explored. Literary works by and of women on the road are generally overlooked. The muteness of this ... -
Reaffirming Victorian Patriarchy Through Gothic Vampire Fiction
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-10-31)This thesis aims to investigate Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla” (1872) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) with a focus on how each text deals with gender and sexuality issues considering their contemporary societal culture. The Victorian Era in the UK was a time when conservative traditions were promoted, celebrating the inherent superiority of Englishmen. All other groups of people were categorized as ... -
Ghosts of Literature: Tracing the Spectral in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Mary Shelley
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-30)This thesis investigates the ways in which literature can access the spectral as an alternative to dualist discourse within the selected works of Samuel T. Coleridge and Mary Shelley. Western dualistic philosophy promotes a sharp distinction between the ontological categories of mind and matter, life and death, being and non-being. Within such a system of binaries, hierarchies arise, in which mind ... -
Expressions of Mood in Cinematic Adaptations of Patricia Highsmith’s novels The Price of Salt and The Talented Mr. Ripley
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-09-10)The thesis sets out to explore the ways that mood is adapted from Highsmith’s novels The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) and The Price of Salt (1952) to Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and Todd Haynes’s Carol (2015), respectively. The aim is to show the diverging ways in which the novels and the films express the quintessential Highsmith story through mood, and to show how these diverging ... -
"-Guhtta álddu!" Náhkehasat romána guovddášpersovnnaid analysa
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-06-04)Čoahkkáigeassu Mun lean dán masterdutkosis guorahallan váldopersovnnaid Matti Aikio románas Náhkehasat. Persovdnaguorahallamis guorahalan persovnnaid rollaid muitalusas, sin mihtilmasvuođaid ja eallinoainnu. Guorahallamiid lean geavahan etablerejuvvon oarjemáilmmi girjjálašvuođametodologiija ja eamiálbmotmetodologiija. Lean geavahan luohteteoriija teorehtalaš vuođđun čilgen dihte persovnnaid ... -
Rupture: Exposing the Instability of a State Apparatus Through Poetic Descriptions of a Natural World
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-23)The thesis uses the critical lens of Deleuze and Guattari on the poetry of George Gordon Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Bobby Sands to illustrate the way natural elements deconstruct the power of a state apparatus by exposing it as a temporary social construct. I argue that literature creates the idea of a nation by perpetuating narratives that divide the world into borders; conversely, literature ... -
These Monstrous, Decadent New Women. Exploring the Death of Dangerous Femininities in the Fin de Siècle
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-15)Engagement with the Gothic often brings readers into the realms of the unknown and that which is difficult to represent. In this thesis, I intend to convey to you the fin de siècle’s fascination with representing powerful women as monstrous, something that was analogous with the representations of the New Woman. Whilst there has been much research and discussions around the subject of gender in late ... -
The Conscious Collective. An exploration of Orwell’s Representations of Individualism within Authoritarian Societies
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-15)This master’s thesis examines the prolific author George Orwell’s representation of the struggles associated with individualism within authoritarian regimes. By drawing on Hannah Arendt’s Responsibility and Judgement, a discussion of the Eichmann trials, and the responsibilities of the German people, this thesis establishes a theoretical framework. This framework is used to discuss the responsibilities ... -
Preventing radicalisation through reading fiction How reading North of Dawn or The Lines We Cross can teach adolescents intercultural competence and build resilience against radicalisation
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-14)The following thesis aims to look at how reading Nuruddin Farah´s North of Dawn and Randa Abdel-Fattah´s The Lines We Cross can create resilience to radicalisation and violent extremism. Building on the concepts of deep reading, vicarious experiences and theories on preventative work, this thesis will show how literature that examines radicalisation in a critical light can show the importance of ... -
Facilitating For a Conscious Awareness of Oneself Through Literature. Using 2001: A Space Odyssey as a facilitator in the classroom for enhancing student’s perspective taking and capacity to mentally time travel
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-15)This thesis aims to show how literature can be used to facilitate a deeper understanding of ourselves and our imaginative mind, inside and outside the classroom. The novel that will be used as an example is Arthur C. Clarke’s renowned 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). The novel revolves around Clarke’s worldview and prospections about the future, musing on the existential questions which have puzzled ... -
Moments of Being, A Real Trauma Truth of Virginia Woolf?
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-06-02)Master’s thesis in English Literature ENG-3992 -
The delusion of Wonderland
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-15)This thesis seeks to address how Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland can be interpreted as a story about mental illness, where the main character is suffering from Schizophrenia. The story of Alice has been adapted many times since it first was published, even by Carroll himself who wrote three different versions of the Alice story. I will look into how children’s literature has ... -
The Cult of Americanism: An analysis of BioShock Infinite’s dystopic Columbia as social commentary on American exceptionalism
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-15)This master’s thesis analyses BioShock Infinite as a critique of American exceptionalism. As a multi-modal video game, Infinite merges aesthetic design, music, and narrative into an egocentric moral experiences that allows for moral deliberation surrounding the self. This thesis aims to provide textual support that , by perversion of American symbols and myths, BioShock Infinite offers a critique ... -
The 25-hour Moment: How Pathologic 2 Facilitates Presentness and Constructs Its Ludonarrative
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-16)This thesis investigates how interactivity, one of digital games’ most prominent and productive aspects, can be leveraged to produce particular experiences within games. I demonstrate how Pathologic 2 is designed to leverage interactivity in order to immerse the player within its fiction and world, primarily by the player’s own continuous interaction with the game system as represented in the game’s ... -
The Penalization of Agentic Female Characters in Literature: An Analysis of The Awakening and Looking for Alaska
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-14)Adolescents tend to identify with literary characters to a considerable degree, and it is therefore vital to advocate the distinction between healthy and unhealthy characters in the secondary classroom. This thesis aims to investigate the intertwining topics of mental health and gender roles in Kate Chopin’s canonical novel The Awakening (1899) and John Green’s young adult fiction novel Looking for ... -
Exploring Racialization portrayed in Young Adult Fiction
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-06-22)This thesis aims to answer how racial stereotypes are challenged in Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give and Nic Stone’s Dear Martin by informing the reader through transformative characters. This is done by analyzing both novels’ portrayals of police brutality leading to an internal conflict concerning race. To investigate the novels, Critical Race Theory and the term intersectionality will be used along ... -
Challenging normality and breaking boundaries of prejudice
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-16)This thesis seeks to investigate how the protagonists with disabilities in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time challenge society’s normative views of taboos and break the boundaries of prejudice and to underline the importance for young adult readers to read such literature. Additionally, I will seek to answer how teachers can utilize ... -
"Forslag til ei løysing" - En analyse av Marianne Clementine Håheims Svart belte i et didaktisk perspektiv.
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2019-05-15)Å velge skjønnlitteratur som skal leses i norskfaget er et sentralt didaktisk anliggende. Man må tenke på hva som kan motivere elevene, hvilket nivå elever er på og hva man ønsker de skal sitte igjen med. Svart belte er en selvbiografisk roman som gir et nyansert bilde av det å leve med spiseforstyrrelser. For protagonisten i Svart belte (2015) av Marianne Clementine Håheim, er spiseforstyrrelser ... -
Promoting Intercultural Competence in the Norwegian EFL Classroom Through an Understanding of Agency and Choice in Border-Crossing Literature
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-11-01)This thesis, Promoting Intercultural Competence in the Norwegian EFL Classroom through an Understanding of Agency in Border-Crossing Literature, aims to bridge the connection between integrating border-crossing literature in the classroom and developing intercultural competence. This is done through highlighting agency and choice within the border-crossing literature. In light of LK20, the National ... -
On the creation of tensions between Cot’s fictional autobiography as compared to the encompassing frame narrative in Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl: A Novel by Kate McCafferty. The narrative impact on the voice of a female character and witness, Cot Daley – a suppressed Irish indentured servant in Barbados in the late 17th century
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-11-01)The thesis discusses Kate McCafferty’s novel Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl from 2003, in which the Irish heroine is Cot Daley, an indentured servant, who lives in Barbados in the seventeenth century. The thesis focuses upon how the novel negotiates the relationship between the historical contexts and the novel’s plot, theme and norm, and – moreover – how McCafferty’s Testimony negotiates the ...