Browsing Student papers (HF-IKS) by Title
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The Hypocrisy of Victorian Gender Roles, as Shown in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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The Illuminating Power of Fiction: A Reading of A.L. Kennedy’s Day, Ian McEwan’s Atonement, and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-05-12)Can fiction contribute to history? Through a reading of A.L. Kennedy’s Day, Ian McEwan’s Atonement, and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated, this thesis explores how three contemporary novels, written by authors ... -
The Impact of SMS Language and Abbreviations on the Academic Writing of Secondary School Students
(Master thesis, 2021)This study is based on the possible impact the use of SMS language and abbreviations by students may have on their academic writing. Students from secondary schools in Norway between the ages of 13 and 16 were examined. ... -
The Impact of Social Media on VG1 Pupils’ English use in Second Language Learner Texts.
(Bachelor thesis, 2022)Our writing practices have changed significantly since the end of the twentieth century, due to the increasing use of text messages, e-mails, and different social media platforms. In the past couple of years, due to the ... -
The Integration of a New Ideology and Its Fragile Dependency on Memories in The Handmaid's Tale
(Master thesis, 2023)In this thesis I will explore how ideology has been implemented in The Republic of Gilead as they are amid a forced ideological shift, turning away from an ideology much like our own, and building a new society grounded ... -
The Intelligent Monster: An Analysis of the Creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
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The localization of proper nouns in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997) as presented in Harry Potter og de Vises Stein translated by Torstein Bugge Høverstad (2001)
(Bachelor thesis, 2024)This thesis conducts a comparative analysis of proper noun localization in the Norwegian translation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by Joanne K. Rowling (1997, translated 2001), focusing on the decisions made ... -
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
(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 Move onto the Big Screen: Discussion between Novel and Film and the Evangelical Potentials in Taiwan (R.O.C.)
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-05-11)The following thesis uses the 2005 film: The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as main text in the Case Study section to analyse the process of adaptation with measurements mainly provided by scholar ... -
The Multilingual Student
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The Narrative Performers: An Examination of Medieval Musicians' Effect on Their Audiences and The Narrative
(Master thesis, 2021)In this thesis, the field of oral tradition developed by Milman Parry, Albert Lord and later expanded by John Miles Foley will inform our perspective of the medieval texts “Cædmon’s Hymn” by Bede and Sir Orfeo in order to ... -
The Narratives We Live by: Investigating the functions of narratives in Rachel Cusk’s Outline and Deborah Levy’s The Cost of Living
(Master thesis, 2022)This thesis will investigate how narratives work in our perception of reality, ourselves and society through a close reading of the novels Outline by Rachel Cusk and The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy. I will argue that ... -
The Norse way of Traveling Across country, at Sea, and in Imagined spaces, in the late Iron Age and Viking Age.
(Master thesis, 2023)Denne oppgaven ser på hvilke reisemåter det norrøne folket har brukt, på land, til havs, og i imaginære rom. Ved bruk av Islendinge sagaene, objekter, forskning av rekonstruksjon og reenactment av verktøy, redskaper og ... -
The Online LexiCOIN: Exploring the formation and use of English slang blends
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis aims to explore the manner in which English slang lexical blends are formed and used in computer-mediated communication. The focus is particularly on how blends are used on the social media platforms, Facebook, ... -
The position and use of literature in Norwegian upper secondary school and the transition to university
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-05-16)This thesis is a qualitative study exploring the perceptions of the position and use of literature in the English subject in Norwegian upper secondary school, and the transition to university. -
The Potential and Restriction of understanding Holocaust Perpetrators in "Holocaust and Human Behaviour" by the FHAO
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05-19)This thesis is a descriptive study on educational resources produced and presented by the NGO, Facing History and Ourselves in the collection/book Holocaust and Human Behaviour [2016]. Using semiotic analytical tools, the ... -
The prevalence of prescriptivism and pedantry: A mixed method study of descriptive and prescriptive attitudes’ predominance in two British newspapers
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-05)This thesis is a quantitative and qualitative study of the prevalence of descriptive and prescriptive attitudes in the Guardian and the Telegraph articles about linguistics between 2000 and 2019. The main inspiration ... -
The relationship between fathers and daughters in Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and The Tempest
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IKS/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-05-11)The aim of the proposed thesis will be to examine the complex and provocative relationship between fathers and daughters in Shakespeare’s plays The Tempest, King Lear, Hamlet and Othello. The plays take up the stories at ... -
The Representation of Male Sexuality in Popular Culture
(Master thesis, 2023)The aim of this thesis is to explore the representation of male sexuality in popular culture and how it has changed from early twentieth century to contemporary time. In order to do this, I intend to do a comparative ...