| Abstract: | The present article deals with the various problems that faced N. V. Gogol’ working on vol. II of his great novel. Attention is paid not only to ideological and psychological matters, but also to the more complicated composition pattern which can be discerned in the five preserved chapters of “Dead Souls” II |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/531 |
| Abstract: | In this article the poetry of Jakov Polonskij is compared to Afanasij Fet's verse with a special focus on the motif "night". A juxtaposition of parallel passages demonstrates both similarities and profound differences: on the one hand, Polonskij is familiar with the various aspects of verse technique so brilliantly applied by Fet, while on the other hand he avoids the erotically coloured emotional climax which often concludes Fet's poems. In Polonskij a joyful mood is combined with dissonant notes of doubt and disillusion. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/539 |
| Abstract: | In M. Ju. Lermontov's novel «A Hero of our Time» almost every person is wearing a «mask», trying to conceal his or her real intentions—or, on the contrary, taking advantage of the mask, doing or saying things otherwise condemned by the prevailing social conventions. This paper offers a brief analysis of the phenomenon and its function in the structure of the novel. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/520 |
| Abstract: | In this paper the hero of Dostoevskij's novel “The Idiot”, Prince Myškin, is compared to a more humble character of that book, Luk'jan Lebedev, with special regard to their religious teaching and the Russian notions of “jurodivyj” (“God’s fool”) and “šut” (“buffoon”). The paper concludes with the assertion that the Prince concentrates on the bright aspects of religion, while Mr. Lebedev, when provoked, emphasizes its more sinister side. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/524 |
| Abstract: | Om O. Mandel'stam og Andrej Belyj |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/3219 |
| Description: | Dette er en bearbeidet versjon av forfatterens hovedfagsoppgave i nordisk ved Universitetet i Tromsø, under tittelen 'Erindringens vev : en analyse av Cora Sandels Albertetrilogi' (1999). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2382 |
| Abstract: | The article identifies the exponent for the longest caves in the Scandinavian Caledonides, UK, part of the Alps, USA and the earth. The exponent is used to calculate the total number of caves longer than 100 m and 10 m in different regions, using equations described by Rane Curl in 1986 and statistical methods like maximum likelihood estimation and Kolmogorov-Smirnov. The article discusses whether the approach is legitimate. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/4120 |
| Abstract: | The article deals with Arctic explorer and anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson's self-presentation in the expedition account The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions (1921), which tells the story of his travels and trials in the Canadian High Arctic in the years between 1913-1918. The account has been considered a key text to Stefansson's Arctic career, and provides a textbook example of his characteristic theory of living off the country in the so-called Eskimo way. Against the background of Stefansson's debated position as Arctic expert and visionary, I ask if it is possible to read the kind of criticism with which Stefansson frequently was met as rooted in some of the narrative aspects of his account. The narrative persona or implied author is a central element in the literature of exploration, as several literary scholars have pointed out. My reading is centred around the implied author of The Friendly Arctic, which I argue must be read in light of the sometimes conflicting roles given to Stefansson as protagonist and narrator in his own story. Close-readings of passages from the account raise the dilemma of how it is possible to present oneself as a hero in an essentially friendly Arctic. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/4475 |
| Abstract: | The Sámis are the indigenous population of Northern Scandinavia. When the oppressive policy against the Sámi population in Norway was lightened during the 1960s, many Sámi communities established language and cultural centers for documentation and development of their language and cultural heritage as the oral tradition lost its ground in the modernization process. This paper aims to discuss how Sámi cultural centers use documentation both as a way of remembering the past and as a political strategy in order to produce evidence for land and water claims. The Sámi centers are many-faceted institutions and document theory is suggested as a theoretical perspective in order to analyze why these institutions were established and how they are functioning today. Two cases are presented. The first shows how the centers use documentation as a technique for restoring the past. The second is a ruling in the Norwegian High Court that shows a new turn in what can be accepted as documents proving indigenous land and water claims. This article is an attempt to introduce document theory as an analytical tool for analyzing the documentation processes in indigenous cultural centers. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/4576 |
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