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Next Page| Description: | In: Roswitha Skare, Niels Windfeld Lund, Andreas Vårheim (eds.) (2007): "A Document (Re)turn". Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, pp. 73-93. Reprinted with permission. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/971 |
| Abstract: | Denne artikkelen om Jean Gionos Récits de la demi-brigade viser hvordan forfatteren bruker elementer fra kriminalsjangeren for å reflektere omkring selve skriveprosessen. Giono "lurer" leseren til å tro at det dreier seg om kriminalfortellinger, men det viser seg fort at han "bryter sjangerkontrakten". Alle de 6 fortellingene kretser riktignok om forbrytelser og etterforskning. men helten, politimannen Martial, er høyst tvetydig. For ham er det selve jakten på forbryteren som er viktig, han har ingen interesse av å fange den skyldige. I disse tekstene blir jakten på forbryteren en metafor for skrivingen, kriminalgåten blir til skrivingens gåte. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/760 |
| Abstract: | Correct Dewey classification is demanding and time consuming. Many of the challenges with the Dewey system are related to locating and interpreting notes (i.e. classification guidelines), and number building. Today’s Dewey structure is a result of more than 100 years of optimizing a comprehensive classification system to the printed book medium. In order to limit the system into a “manageable” size, facets and facet-like subjects are represented only once and instead referred to from relevant classes for number building. A similar technique is used to reduce the number of notes. With the remediation of Dewey from printed to computer media, space is not limited and there is no need to compress the classification system. Number building can be eliminated, and all relevant notes attached to each class. Despite the fact that the system now has been available in electronic form for almost 20 years, it is still largely a copy of the printed version. This article first investigates how the Dewey system may be presented for users without number building, in order to make it more immediate and user-friendly. We first analyze the Dewey structure, and then look at different representations of the structure suited for computer media. Finally, some ideas for a new presentation without number building are proposed. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/4595 |
| Abstract: | The Lullehačorrugrottan cave in the Torneträsk area of northern Sweden was originally surveyed to 1145 m by Gunnar Rasmusson 50 years ago. Later surveys in 2003 added 267 m of new cave passages (grade 2). In March 2007 a Norwegian / Swedish joint expedition explored and partly surveyed the continuation of one of the passages discovered in 2003. The benefit of winter caving is low water level, because of no liquid precipitation for half a year. 87 m passage (discovered in 2003) was surveyed to grade 5 and an estimated 85 m completely new passage was surveyed to grade 2. This article focus on the exploration of this new passage and the challenges the expedition faced in remote areas and arctic winter. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/1104 |
| Abstract: | The Arctic has often been regarded (its various indigenous groups notwithstanding) as a desolate and silent void to be explored and defined by Euro-westerners, usuallyin terms of a masculine competitive ethos and an ethnocentric rhetoric of WesternEnlightenment and progress. Surprisingly, even many Norwegian arctic expeditionsof our own time tend to embody similar narratives of conquest and athletic prowess.Among contemporary North-American writers, however, this kind of discourse isprofoundly questioned, particularly by focusing on the problematic function oflanguage itself in our constructions of the Arctic. This article focuses on three North-American books in which the issue of the Euro-western linguistic appropriation ofthe Arctic, its natural environment as well as its peoples, is a major concern; they areall reflections on the issues of writing and silence with reference to the far north. Thethree books are: Barry Lopez' Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a NorthernLandscape (1987), Aritha van Herk's Places Far from Ellesmere (1990), and JohnMoss' Enduring Dreams: An Exploration of Arctic Landscape (1996). Central in allof them is the following issue: how to make the wordless landscape or the alienculture speak from under, as it were, the enormous compilation of centuries of Eurowesterntext. The article discusses four major strategies by which these three booksattempt to counteract and subvert earlier Euro-western ethnocentric and monologicnarratives of the Arctic: by the inclusion of feminine and indigenous voices; by thelegitimation of the sensuous life-world of the Arctic itself; by the self-reflexivesubversion of the authority of the language of their own texts; and by the use of astyle of paradox and contradiction. By way of such techniques, the books above try to create more open, dialogic and pluralistic readings of the Arctic. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/4882 |
| Abstract: | This article is chiefly concerned with Wallace Stegner’s ideas of aridity as the key to the understanding of the history and culture of the American West. It first examines the arguments of some major books published in the 1980s that helped strengthen Stegner’s conviction that the West was heading towards environmental disaster due to the rapidly increasing depletion of its rivers and aquifers, a projected ecological crisis that has grown even more acute at the beginning of the 21st century. The subsequent focus of this article, however, is on Stegner’s predominant proposition that the abuse of the arid nature of the West – the rampant disregard of its environmental limitations – is a product of a mindset and a culture that he finds particularly Western. In the course of his analysis, Stegner sees the rootlessness that typified his own family history as a direct reflection of the transientness characteristic of the collective history of the American West, which served to hamper the evolution of a sense of place that in his view is the prerequisite for a genuine stewardship of the land. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/3987 |
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