Overordnet problemstilling: Hvordan har publikums forståelse av Værøygjenstandenes motiver endret seg fra senmiddelalderen til perioden fra 1800 til 1820?
Hovedoppgaven er en resepsjonsanalyse av en altertavle fra 1700-tallet i den gamle kirken på Værøy. Tavlens predella prydes av fem engelske alabastrelieffer, her omtalt som Værøy-gjenstandene, fra 1430-tallet. Hovedfagsoppgaven rekonstruerer, på et tentativt plan, et alterskap som relieffene var en del av i senmiddelalderen og gransker hvordan de kan ha blitt brukt i et slikt skap i Nord-Norge i middelalderen. I tillegg utforskes mulig gjenbruk av relieffene i den lutherske tavlen på 1700-tallet. Hele tavlen undersøkes i forhold til en tenkt luthersk gudstjeneste med utgangspunkt i liturgiens gang, og bøker som Kingos salmebok og sannhet til gudfryktighet (s. 85 – s. 96). Mot slutten sammenlignes senmiddelalderens og den lutherske resepsjon av relieffene. Konklusjonen er at publikums forståelse av Værøy-gjenstandene må ha endret seg på flere nivåer fra senmiddelalderen til 1800-tallet.
This paper discusses the reception of a Barbary Coast Captivity Narrative by Robert Adams, published in 1816. The text has often been mentioned in studies of the Barbary Coast narrative but not as a document of a transatlantic discourse about African exploration, ethnography, and colonial development. The creation of Adams text and the creation of the Adams archive will be the subject of the paper as seen by contemporary sources on both sides of the Atlantic. The creation of the Adams narration in the city of London is played off again in the reception of the Adams narrative in Boston. Each set of textual “editors” and reviewers attempt to use the text to intervene in a debate about Timbuctoo, the future of African exploration, and the ways a literary “curiosity” is placed within the aesthetic and ideological needs of emerging discourses of African exploration and racial representation in the first decades of the 19th century on both sides of the Atlantic.
This article investigates public architecture in Sápmi from the 1970s until today, with particular emphasis on building materials and their discourse. Although the materials chosen for clothing or for revealed construction follow Nordic and inter¬national architectonic trends, the wood, stone, concrete and glass are ascribed a set of meanings to fit the Sami context. The question is to what degree these materials mediate conventional and even stereotypical understandings of Saminess, or produce awareness of new Sami architecture and identity.
Knutsen, Nils Magne(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
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In his book from 1865 Johan Kulstad tells the story of a hunting expedition to Spitzbergen in 1853. The mother ship disappears, and in desperation Kulstad and his six men starts rowing their small hunting boat back to Norway. After six days of incredible suffering, they are rescued by a Danish ship a few miles off the coast of Finnmark.
After outlining the main sides of this story, the article comments briefly on the way Kulstad tells his story: There is a mixture of pre-realistic and naturalistic narrative, there is a mixture of genres, and the text is without the heroism which is so prevalent in later Arctic narrative. Interesting detail: The way a Sami member of the
expedition is portrayed.
The Life of Others (2006) has been a successful film, winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Feature in 2007. It is a film about surveillance, but also about the lives of artists and writers in East Berlin in the middle of the 1980s, and about what role literature and art played in the GDR and in the events of autumn 1989. The article focuses on the way the film portrays Wiesler’s transformation from hard-boiled Stasi officer into the guardian angel of his target, and shows how art – both literature and music – plays an important role in this process.