Browsing UiS Brage by Author "Drangsholt, Janne Stigen"
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A PLACE TO CALL HOME: The gothic space in young adult fantasy
Klakegg, Thomas (Bachelor thesis, 2022)In gothic literature, space is very important. The importance of old manors, castles and grounds in the traditonal gothic novels. But in what ways does these aspect of gothic literature transition into contemporary young ... -
Deconstructing Race, Gender, and Class: An Investigation of Zadie Smith’s NW (2012) and Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (2019)
Bayhan, Elif (Master thesis, 2023)This thesis takes its point of departure in the deconstruction of contemporary literary representations of race, gender, and class that are produced by ideologies of the neo-colonial, neo-imperial, neoliberal, and patriarchal ... -
Der krepsene synger: En granskning av naturens rolle i menneskets liv, og naturen som en metafor for å kritisere samfunnsmessige strukturer
Bredenbekk, Sofia (Bachelor thesis, 2023)Hensikten med dette essayet er å gjøre en nærlesing av Where the Crawdads Sing (2018) av forfatteren Delia Owens, med fokus på bruken av naturen i romanen. I denne forbindelse har jeg pekt på skildringen og viktigheten av ... -
En undersøkelse av stereotypier av mødre i Fleabag (2016) av Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Mossige, Vilde Tjelta (Bachelor thesis, 2023)The basis of this thesis is a close reading of the 2016 TV-series Fleabag written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, exploring and investigating the maternal stereotypes that are presented. Waller-Bridge reuses the fairytale narrative ... -
Hero or Villain: A Comparative Study of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen (1987), Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (2008), and Anthony and Joe Russo’s Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Strand, Kristoffer (Master thesis, 2022)This thesis is a comparative analysis of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (2008), Anthony and Joe Russo’s Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s graphic novel Watchmen (1987) which aims to investigate ... -
“I am, I am, I am”: The figure of the imprisoned female in Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Plath, and Bernardine Evaristo
Landa, Lisa Sarita (Master thesis, 2022)This thesis is a comparative study exploring the theme of the imprisoned female in the three novels Alias Grace (1996) by Margaret Atwood, The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath and Girl, Woman, Other (2019) by Bernardine ... -
“I was a normal child”: A Comparative Analysis of the Uncanny in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
Steine, Trude Hiim (Bachelor thesis, 2022)In the chapter “Modern Children’s Fantasy” in The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, Catherine Butler explains that children’s fantasy has evolved with the changes of society the past 60 years. With the growing ... -
“I´m a man without power. Does that make me a woman?”: An Investigation of Girlhood and Womanhood in Greta Gerwig´s Little Women (2019) and Barbie (2023).
Jørgensen, Eilin Dahl (Master thesis, 2024)This thesis is a close reading of Greta Gerwig´s Little Women (2019) and Barbie (2023), aiming to investigate how Gerwig presents us with a narrative that contradicts the established stories that have contributed to ... -
Mirror Madness: Investigating Patriarchal Ideology in Versions of "Snow White"
Årsvold, Caroline (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)Fairy tales are an integral part of popular culture, as most people grow up listening to and reading these stories, while also watching adaptions of them in movies and TV series. This thesis seeks to analyze two versions ... -
Our Monsters, ourselves - An analysis of the modern monster in The Fall and Hannibal
Jacobsen, Hanne Mørch (Master thesis, 2016-05-10)The monster has been a popular figure in Western society for centuries, as a notion that has both fascinated and frightened its members. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the modern, moral monster that exists within ... -
Past Tense, Future Perfect? Explorations of Identities in Sylvia Plath´s The Bell Jar, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie´s Half of a Yellow Sun, and Zadie Smith´s White Teeth
Sandanger, Kristine (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05-12)Socially constructed ideas about what it means to be female affect women today, as they always have. Throughout history, these ideas have manifested themselves through expectations and demands that women should conform to ... -
Spinning a Yarn: Mythic Storytelling in Isabel Armstrong's One Hundred Nights of Hero and Neil Gaiman's The Sleeper and the Spindle
Drangsholt, Janne Stigen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Narrative is everywhere. We shape narratives based on our lives, and our lives are similarly shaped by the narratives that we mirror ourselves in. As noted by Peter Brooks in his seminal study Reading the Plot, however, ... -
Suffer in Silence or Pay the Price: Explorations of womanhood and the doctrine of domestic bliss in The Awakening, To the Lighthouse and The Bell Jar.
Haukås, Susanne. (Master thesis, 2022)In this thesis I will undertake a comparative analysis of three different novels to investigate how restrictive gendered ideals affect the protagonists’ sense of womanhood and, as part of this examination, discuss how the ... -
The cultural significance of the governess in Agnes Grey, Jane Eyre and The Turn of the Screw
Mehla, Gro (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)My thesis explores how Victorian society viewed the women who did not live up to the female ideal created by patriarchy. I base my study on Anne Brontë’s (1820-1849) Agnes Grey (1847), Charlotte Brontë’s (1816-1855) Jane ... -
The Female Body as a Site of Conflict in The Handmaid´s Tale (1985) and The Natural Way of Things (2015)
Doshlaku, Leonita (Master thesis, 2024) -
The Labyrinth of Self: A Critical analysis of Subjectivity in Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half (2020) and Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (2019)
Boakye-Nkrumah, Judith Ofosua (Master thesis, 2024)This thesis investigates the thematic concern of subjectivity as problematised in two literary works by Brit Bennett and Ocean Vuong. The primary objective is to explore how these authors use narrative techniques to ... -
The Miseducation of the Missionary Narrative: An Investigation of Discursive Ideology in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea and Zadie Smith's White Teeth
Pedersen, Anja (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-05)In a post-colonial world, the focus on colonial issues might seem like kicking in open doors; however, on an ideological level, narratives from the imperial era still lives on. Thus, this thesis focuses on an ideological ... -
The Songs that a Crow Would Sing
Gudmestad, Mats Haugland (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-05)This thesis will attempt to pursue a further understanding of what can only be described as the unsignifiable, unsayable, ineffable, or indescribable which can be seen to stand in opposition to language and understanding. ... -
The Unnatural woman: Femme fatales in Victorian Gothic
Botting, Fred; Braddon, Mary Elizabeth.; Braun, Heather.; Cohan, Jeffrey Jerome.; Davidson, Carol Margaret.; Kistler, Jordan.; Margree, Victorian; Randall, Bryony; Shea, Victor; Whitla, William; Stoker, Bram; Stuart, Esther M.; Tylor, Jenny Bourne; Crofts, Russell (Bachelor thesis, 2021)This thesis is a comparative character study and close reading of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) and Bram Stroker’s Dracula (1897), which explores how the female mind and body is problematized as a ... -
Vain Trifles? A Study of Female Corporeal Experience in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight.
Kjemphol, Line Korsan (Master thesis, 2021)“To be modern is to live a life of paradox and contradiction” (13) writes Marshall Berman in an attempt to grasp the vast history of modernity. This thesis will be an investigation of what this life of paradox and contradiction ...