Utilizing `The Marrow Thieves´ for Norwegian English education

Abstract

This thesis explores the novel “The Marrow Thieves” to pinpoint its potential value for the education of the interdisciplinary topics of the core curriculum. Using a combination of methods that include hermeneutic textual analysis and interpretive phenomenological analysis this study attempts to build an understanding of how ‘The Marrow Thieves’ can help us teach critical literacy, communicative competence, and proficiency in the interdisciplinary topics of the curriculum. Through an alternating view of literary theory, curriculum, and “The Marrow Thieves” this thesis opens a discussion of fiction literature´s role in English classrooms and its applications to a wide array of aims.

The core thesis of this work states that a critical reading of “The Marrow Thieves” holds educational value for the English subject which massively exceeds the subject’s linguistic sphere of influence.