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A Tavola! : orality in the Sopranos
(Master thesis, 2015)The Sopranos is a critically acclaimed TV series which has engaged audiences in many countries after it first aired in North America. Its themes are varied. Its longevity is welcomed. Its characters are loved. This thesis ... -
“A very nice well-spoken gentlehobbit is Mr. Bilbo, as I’ve always said” - A Study of the Translation of Linguistic Variation in The Lord of the Rings into Norwegian
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis examines which translation procedures have been used to translate linguistic variation in The Lord of the Rings into Norwegian, and sets out to test whether the results confirm the hypothesis that standardization ... -
Audiovisual translation of Disney songs into Norwegian - An analysis of singability, sense, naturalness, rhythm and rhyme
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis examines what song translators in the audiovisual domain prioritize. The subtitled and dubbed Norwegian versions of the theme songs from three American Disney films released between 2003 and 2013 were analyzed ... -
Breaking and catching feminism: female roles in literature for young adults
(Master thesis, 2014)In this thesis, I investigate female roles in literature for young adults, taking a comparative approach to a number of the most popular and bestselling works in recent times, The Twilight Series (2005-2008) by Stephenie ... -
Breaking down gender binaries: (trans)gender experimentation in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand
(Master thesis, 2014)Innen feministisk teori er kjønnsidentitet etablert som en sosial konstruksjon som skapes og opprettholdes av språk. Den binære opposisjonen mannlig/kvinnelig og dens indre makthierarki er videre betinget av den dominante ... -
Cultural context and masculinity in The Office UK and The Office US : a comparative analysis
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Everywhere and nowhere: the city as recorded text in Neverwhere and Kraken
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From the devil to Stalin : change and continuity in children's literature in America : breaking Stalin's nose : a children's novel in context
(Master thesis, 2015)This thesis will establish that books for children in the seventeenth and eighteenth century were clearly religious and moral. Besides teaching literacy, they taught lessons about the importance of Christianity and obedience ... -
Images of storm : nature's voice in Wuthering Heights
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Intertextuality in The Perks of Being a Wallflower: coming-of-age novels in the twentieth century
(Master thesis, 2014)In The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) by Stephen Chbosky the protagonist, Charlie, reads and comments on many coming-of-age novels. This serves to invoke the converging genres of the coming-of-age novel and the ... -
Lewis Carroll : an identity theorist ahead of his time
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Religion, society and the Gothic in Radcliffe, Hawthorne and Hogg
(Master thesis, 2015)Gothic novels and authors have often been accused of being hostile towards religion by twentieth century literary scholars and critics such as George Haggerty and Diana Long Hoeveler. Religion is often a ... -
Storytelling in Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping
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The creative adaption of The Great Gatsby
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The lives and times of Professor Moriarty : investigating the otherness of Sherlock Holmes's arch-enemy
(Master thesis, 2015)One of the most intriguing characters in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories is the "Napoleon of Crime", Professor James Moriarty. Originally a one-story villain devised to kill off Holmes, Moriarty has ... -
The Norwegian translations of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows : a comparative study of the book and films
(Master thesis, 2014)A comparative study of the Norwegian translations of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, both book and films. Focusing on the relationship between the Norwegian literary translation and the Norwegian subtitles, in relation ... -
The paterfamilias figure in post-Victorian fiction : The Forsyte Saga, A House and Its Head, and To the Lighthouse
(Master thesis, 2015)In the post-Victorian fiction written by John Galsworthy, Ivy Compton-Burnett and Virginia Woolf, there are several paterfamilias figures: Soames Forsyte and Old Jolyon in The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921), Duncan Edgeworth in ... -
The significance of things and objects in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
(Master thesis, 2014)This thesis will provide a discussion of the significance of things and objects in Woolf’s 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. It presents an investigation of what significance the objects and things play in relation to the ...