Blar i Institutt for språk og litteratur på emneord "English literature"
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A United and Disunited Sisterhood: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
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"Because I don’t want to be a pirate" - A Contextual Study of the Representation of Long John Silver in Treasure Island and Black Sails
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis is a study of contextuality, proximation, and discourse in the novel Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson and the television series Black Sails (2014-2017) by Robert Levine and John Steinberg, ... -
Controlling the Reader - Omission as Literary Device in Bob Dylan's Topical Songs
(Master thesis, 2018)Bob Dylan received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". The announcement sparked a discussion on the boundaries of the concept of ... -
Feminism and Womanism in Literature - Applying literature in the classroom to identify and understand oppression of women
(Master thesis, 2018)In this thesis, I will explore the theories of Marilyn Frye, Sara Ahmed and Kimberlé Crenshaw. I will then show how we can identify these topics through the use of literature in the classroom. This paper is my response to ... -
From the Little Mermaid and the Snow Queen to Ariel and Elsa: The Development of the Disney Princess Through Adaptation
(Master thesis, 2018)Costume, color and music are common elements of the film adaptation process, as they contribute to the representation of the emotional depth of a character or narrative. This thesis is a study of how the figures of H. C. ... -
Identity Development in Young Adult Fiction - Coming-Of-Age and Coming Out in Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence
(Master thesis, 2018)The present thesis investigates how queer identity and queer relationships began to be portrayed in literature aimed at young adults during the 1990s. It is looking at the process by which queer identity in adolescent ... -
Imagining the Unimaginable - Lovecraft in Popular Culture
(Master thesis, 2018)The aim of the thesis was to explore how Lovecraft has become embedded in popular culture through appropriation of his creations, and whether including elements from his literature alters the narrative of the appropriating ... -
Life in the Ruins: Post-Apocalyptic Narratives of Survival
(Master thesis, 2018)This project argues that climate fiction plays an important role in resisting defeatist attitudes to global warming and in teaching how to live in an Anthropocene era. Specifically, the thesis investigates how diverse ... -
Mediating Anglophobia: Political and Cultural Conflict in the French Periodical Reception of British Travel Writing (1792-1814)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article analyses a set of French periodical articles on British travel writing, exploring the complex and ambivalent relationship that the French press entertained with translations of British travelogues. As travel ... -
Narrative Techniques in the Novel and the Film We Need to Talk About Kevin
(Master thesis, 2018)This is a study of Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Lynne Ramsay’s film adaptation with the same title. The aim of this thesis is to examine and compare the ways in which these two works relate the ... -
No Fear Shakespeare: Disseminating Hamlet Through Adaptation
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis discusses the value in using adaptations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet to have more readers experience and understand of the work. Two adaptions are discussed: John Crowther’s side-by-side translation of Hamlet from ... -
Representing Evil - Harry Potter from Page to Screen
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis conducts a comparative adaptation studies approach, in which narrative techniques and film techniques used to create evil characters in the Harry Potter series is the main issue. In order to discover which ... -
Sentimental Courtship Novels in Eighteenth-Century England - Their Guidance on Marriage-Related Issues and Contribution to Progressive Transitions in English Society
(Master thesis, 2018)The purpose of this thesis is to showcase sentimental courtship novels’ socio-historical potential, as opposed to reading them as mere entertainment. It attempts to provide the literary field – through in-depth work on a ... -
The Future is Now - Science Fiction as Social and Political Analysis in Saci Lloyd's The Carbon Diaries
(Master thesis, 2018)As a speculative mode of narration, science fiction is often concerned with the environment, and the genre enables authors to criticise elements of society and explore potential future consequences of present day politics. ... -
The resurrection of Sherlock Holmes: How Conan Doyle's detective fiction changed after his hero's rebirth
(Master thesis, 2018)Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of one of the most famous detectives in literature chose to kill his character and stop writing crime-stories after having published a little less than half of the total Sherlock Holmes ... -
Updating Wentworth for a Modern Audience: Persuasion in Fan Fiction
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis is a study of Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion, and how it has been updated in two modern literary retellings, Amanda Grange’s Captain Wentworth’s Diary (2007) and Susan Kaye’s Frederick Wentworth, Captain ... -
Wickedness in Politics: a House of Cards - The intertextual relationship between literature and television as evident in adaptations of Michael Dobbs' House of Cards
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis examines the intertextual relationship between two novels and two television series, all named House of Cards. The original novel was written in 1989 and its most popular adaptation today is Netflix’s ongoing ...