Blar i Faculty of Arts and Education på forfatter "Rasmussen, Eric Dean"
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A Clockwork Orange: The state's needs and a human's rights.
Bastiansen, Bjørn Henrik (Bachelor thesis, 2021) -
"All is Failure:" The Legacy of the Enlightenment and Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
Tom, Jacob (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05-06)Since its publication in 1997, Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon has become a literary cornerstone within a continuing discussion about the 18th-Century and its influence on contemporary culture. Initially, this thesis will ... -
Asimovs roboter og den menneskelige tilværelsen
Gabrielsen, Iris Vanja (Bachelor thesis, 2023)Isaac Asimovs I, Robot er en kolleksjon av noveller som handler om mennesker og roboter, og hvordan konfliktene som skjer i en slik verden blir løst. Gjennom disse novellene er problemet om fordommer mot roboter et økende ... -
"Continuing to Play": Humour in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Larson, Emma Maria (Master thesis, 2023)Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man (1952) is sometimes comical, despite many critics’ claims of the opposite. This master’s thesis provides a close reading of humorous elements in the novel, demonstrating how humorous ... -
Don DeLillo’s Underworld: Systems, Loops, and Contradictions
Larsen, Victor Bo (Master thesis, 2022)This thesis attempts to continue Tom LeClair's studies on a critical genre of fiction named the systems novel. The thesis specifically analyzes Underworld (1997) by Don DeLillo, which has yet to be analyzed within LeClair's ... -
‘’Intelligence’’ in Doris Lessing’s ‘’To Room Nineteen’’
Tungland, Synne (Bachelor thesis, 2023)Oppgaven tar for seg bruken av ''intelligens'' in Doris Lessing sin novelle ''To Room Nineteen''. ''Intelligens'' blir analysert og presentert som svaret på hvorfor hovedpersonen, Susan Rawlings, tar sitt eget liv. -
Merkelig lidenskap – Mystikk og det uhyggelige i Algernon Blackwoods “The Man Whom the Trees Loved”
Petterson, Patrick (Bachelor thesis, 2023)The purpose of this essay is to explore the mystical and uncanny themes of Algernon Blackwood’s short story from 1912, “The Man Whom the Trees Loved”. Through the central conflict between the two main protagonists, the ... -
“One Day I Shall Meditate In Falling Snow:” Meditation and Eastern Ways of Perceiving in Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard and George Schaller’s Stones of Silence
Jones, Anderson (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-08-31)Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard, published in 1978, has remained a well-known work on reading lists incorporating nature writing and Eastern Buddhist thought. It has not, however, received much scholarly treatment ... -
Planetary Citizenship: Environmental Thinking in Postmodernist Science Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut and Ursula K. Le Guin
Byberg, Kjersti Lauvvik (Master thesis, 2023)This master’s thesis aims to frame Kurt Vonnegut and Ursula K. Le Guin as environmental thinkers. With climate change becoming an evermore visible treat, this thesis aims to look at how science fiction can provide a useful ... -
Purposeful Plainness: The Politics of George Orwell’s Prose Style
Johnson, Magnus Espolin (Master thesis, 2021)This master’s thesis aims to explain how to read George Orwell as a writer and prose stylist who strived to make political writing into an art. It studies how textual effects of his prose style connect with his political ... -
Representations of the Feminine in Selected Poems, Short-Stories, and Criticism by Edgar Allan Poe
Josdal, Mariann (Master thesis, 2022)A recurring theme in Poe’s poems and prose is his portrayal of the death of beautiful women. As such, the representation of the feminine is a frequent topic of interest in scholarly discussions on his writing. The traditional ... -
Response to the Global Climate Crisis in The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Kittelsen, Kathrine (Master thesis, 2023)Results of anthropogenic environmental changes have become even more visible in the recent years with the ongoing climate crisis calling for sustainable alternatives to our current ways of living globally. Fiction has been ... -
Shirley Jackson’s female gothic: the significance of food in We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Kostov, Anna Christin (Bachelor thesis, 2022)The thesis focuses on the significance of food in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle. It goes through what a female gothic is, and how the symbolism of food ties into the main themes of the genre, as well ... -
Subjectivity in Three Postmodern Novels by Don DeLillo and Paul Auster: Mao II, Cosmopolis and Leviathan
Haarr, Silje (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05-12)This thesis explores how fictional characters come to occupy subject positions through ideological processes such as interpellation. It studies how the subject positions the character occupy define their whole lives; even ... -
"The Future and the Past Merge to Meet Us Here": Black Feminism and Performative Biographism in Beyoncé's Visual Album Lemonade (2016)
Bøe, Sigbjørg (Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05-06)Beyoncé's visual album Lemonade has been faulted by radical feminist theorist bell hooks for its lack of intersectionality and for stereotypically victimising Black women. This thesis will counter this by arguing that ... -
The Yellow Wallpaper: A Woman’s journey into an evolved identity
Blom, Stine Hope (Bachelor thesis, 2022)Denne artikkelen tar sikte på å utforske hvordan Gilmans litterære verk The Yellow Wallpaper, eller mer spesifikt hvordan Fortelleren i The Yellow Wallpaper videreformidler et budskap som overskrider Gilmans originale ... -
Walking is an art; Walking by Henry David Thoreau
Egeli, Margethe (Bachelor thesis, 2021)This thesis is about the art of Walking and the Wild in the essay Walking by Henry David Thoreau. It explains several phrases and Thoreau's philosophy of life in the essay. -
We Should All Be Planetary Citizens: an Analysis of Kurt Vonnegut's Environmentalism in Galápagos
Byberg, Kjersti Lauvvik (Bachelor thesis, 2021)