Thure Erik Lund’s Myrbråten stories may be read as grim and funny descriptions of (post)modern Norway – anatomies made by means of highly ideosyncratic style(s). The postmodern condition is ridiculed along with the regressive ...

Artikkelen tar for seg Knut Hamsuns engasjement for å bekjempe barnedrap i Norge, et engasjement som kom tydeligst til uttrykk i den såkalte barnemorddebatten (1915-1916) og i romanen Markens Grøde (1917). I debattinnleggene ...

Himmelarkivet (2008) by Gaute Heivoll is part of an international trend of fiction concerned with traumatic events from World War II reflecting on the question of how these events should be described and understood. One ...

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 ...

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. ...

This article investigates how reality is depicted through written language and visual resources in educational literature in Norway in two periods of time since World War II. The idea is, through this study, to point out ...