Artikkelen undersøker hvordan Hamsun bruker skisser og skisseestetikker i sin prosa fra 1890 til tidlig 1900-tall. Dersom skissen via Alison Byerlys «Effortless Art: The Sketch in Nineteenth-Century Painting and Literature» kan teoretiseres som et sjangerbegrep, en teknikk, en estetikk og som et memento for hukommelsen (aide-mémoire), kan skissen sies å ha en rik og variert bruk i denne modernistiske ...

School improvement efforts rely on teachers’ capacity for professional development and learning. We investigate the kind of roles taken by early career teachers (ECTs) with a master’s degree from a research-based teacher education programme in relation to professional learning and school development in Norwegian schools after five years in the profession. The conceptual framework includes research ...

This study examined the extent to which receptive and productive vocabulary between ages 12 and 18 months predicted language skills at age 24 months in children born with family risk for dyslexia (FR) and a control group born without that risk. The aim was to identify possible markers of early language delay. The authors monitored vocabulary growth in 32 FR children and 21 control children longitudinally ...

The dilution and/or disappearance of religious ideals throughout western societies has been identified as a result of the turn of the enlightenment, the advent and advancement of scientific rationale, processes of industrialization and fundamentally the political and societal separation between church and state (Nietzsche 1882, Jung 1964). Post-enlightenment philosophies have worked to distance ...

This thesis is about notions of authenticity in the Norwegian-American society Petersburg, Alaska. With the intention of gaining an understanding on why the Norwegian heritage keeps such a strong position in this society, I went into the field, and was surprised by the extensive role of food and the use of the term authentic in connection with it. I found that the idea of authenticity is closely ...

The aim of this thesis is to explain why differences arose between Norwegian, Danish and English towns with regard to their economic functions. Norwegian towns did not develop a sizeable production of commodities for the rural hinterland, something Danish and English towns did, of which the textile industry in small English towns is a prime example. This production contributed to the growth of towns ...

Edelmetalldepotene i Nord-Norge fra vikingtid og tidlig middelalder (eller sølvskattene, som de ofte kalles) blir her analysert utfra innhold, sammensetning og plassering i landskapet. Det konkluderes med at flere av de 28 nordnorske funnene som er inkludert i undersøkelsen bør dateres til tidlig middelalder fordi de inneholder østlige gjenstander som har fått en slik sen datering gjennom andre funn. ...

In this editorial, we outline recent developments in the organization of the journal and briefly summarize each contribution.