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‘Raised by Wolves ’U2,Trauma& The Troubles
2020
Master´s thesis in English (EN500)
On the Yellow Brick Road : Fantasy, Fairy Tales, and the Coming of Age Journey
2018
Master's thesis English EN500 - University of Agder 2018
The Depiction of Trauma in Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta and Watchmen
2020
Master´s thesis in English (EN500) This thesis will explore the depiction of trauma in Alan Moore’s graphic novels V for Vendetta and Watchmen . It aims to examine how something as unrepresentable as trauma can be portrayed using a balance of art and words in these two narratives. Writer Alan Moore and illustrators David Lloyd and Dave Gibbons have created alternative worlds with recognizable history and realistic characters who endure traumatic experiences that are presented using iconic language. I hope that my readers will gain a greater appreciation for this type of literature after understanding the potential it has in telling stories of importance and sensitivity surrounding trauma. I…
’Someone stole my story’ : Home and Trauma in Two Palestinian Novels
2018
Master's thesis English EN500 This thesis will examine representations of home and trauma in the Palestinian novels Mornings in Jenin (2008) by Susan Abulhawa and Salt Houses (2017) by Hala Alyan. Written by Palestinian refugees now living in the United States, each of the two novels follows a Palestinian family through four generations, and depicts the struggle of creating a sense of belonging away from home. This thesis will focus on the individual experience of home, and examine the ways in which traumatic memories hinder the various characters’ ability to create belonging in exile. Storytelling and the construction of narrative also serve an important function in the novels, and I will …
Exploring the potential of Teaching Literary Texts Regarding the Fostering of Intercultural Communicative Competence – An Empirical Case Study
2018
Master's thesis English EN500 - University of Agder 2018
Narrating Environmental Citizenship. Norwegian picturebooks and comics in the Anthropocene
2023
In my project, I examine how aspects of “environmental citizenship” are discussed in Norwegian picturebooks and comics. The term “environmental citizenship” encompasses several concepts that originate from political sciences and discuss what it can mean to be a responsible, or “good”, citizen with regard to the environment. The concepts are characterised by various understandings of what citizenship means and which role the environment and its intrinsic value play. Common for the concepts is an argument for the need to change something in our behaviour towards the world we live in. An econarratological perspective: I examine seven multimodal texts in my dissertation, four picturebooks and t…
Fanget av fortid : tre traumefortellinger av Jon Fosse
2013
Author's version of an article in the journal: Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. Also available from the publisher at: http://www.idunn.no/ts/edda/2013/03/fanget_i_fortid_-_tre_traumefortellinger_av_jon_fosse Focusing on three narratives by Jon Fosse, Naustet (1989), Det er Ales (2004) and Olavs draumar (2012), I argue that a main theme in his work is a recurring concern with human responses to critical experiences of the past. Fosse’s characters often suffer from intrusive images and traumatic memories of shocking and disastrous events, thus being exposed to frequent re-enactments that impair their ability to live normal lives in the present. However, the narrative form is …
Anthropocene Aesthetics: Norwegian Literature in a New Geological Epoch
2021
Kan teksttolking være vitenskap? Fire faghistoriske debatter
2013
Author's version of an article in the journal: Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. Also avaliable from the publisher at: http://www.idunn.no/ts/edda/2013/04/kan_teksttolking_vaere_vitenskap_-_fire_faghistoriske_debat This article addresses four debates concerning scientific aspects of literary research in Norway in 1940-2010. It discusses the debates between Zapffe and Næss in the 1940s, Haakonsen and Bull in the 1950s, Aarseth and Elster in the 1980s, and Kittang og Bjerck Hagen in the 2000s. The article focuses on how each of these researchers defines “vitenskap” (research/science) and argues for a scientific standard in the interpretation of literary works.
Syv artikler om kulde og litteratur
2014
Doktorgradsavhandling, Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk, Universitetet i Agder