This article discusses the medieval English mystic Julian of Norwich’s autobiographical text <i>Revelations of Divine Love</i> and the significance of physical pain in Julian’s holy visions. Applying Anne H. Hawkins’ idea of the ‘myth of rebirth’, the article argues that although Julian’s work is not a narrative about illness as such, it may nevertheless be read as a medieval pathography or as a ...

This present investigation examines the translation of cultural elements in the novel El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia (2011), written by the Argentinian author Patricio Pron, translated into Mine foreldres ånd fortsetter å stige i regnet (2011), by the Norwegian translator Kristina Solum. The objective of the analysis is to find out which of the two main translation strategies ...

Palatalization is very commonly attested across languages and has sparked considerable interest in fields like linguistic typology, phonetics, and phonology. However, palatalization notoriously exhibits a large degree of diversity, both cross-linguistically and within individual languages, which, on the one hand, precludes a straightforward phonetic explanation, and, on the other hand, poses ...

«Pangur Bán» is probably the best know poem in Celtic studies, and a poem that tends to become increasingly more popular to audiences outside of Ireland. However, the anonymous, medieval poem has been cherished throughout history for a wide range of poetic, philosophical, intellectual and educational reasons. To inquire into the longevity and popularity of a marginal gloss on his cat by an Irish ...

Papirboken har overlevd gjennom et digitalt skifte i media, til tross for at e-boken er et sosialt fenomen med potensiale i det litterære samfunnet. Problemstillingen til denne oppgaven spør hva e-boken er som et sosialt fenomen. Tidligere forskning viser litteratursosiologi, sammenligninger mellom e-bøker og papirbøker, i tillegg til utfordringer i bokbransjen, konkurranse fra aktører utenfor den ...

I denne oppgaven har jeg forsøkt å se nærmere på den forskjellen som eksisterer mellom en velutviklet, sofistikert arkeologisk ontologi og en mindre utviklet, til dels ureflektert arkeologisk metodologi. Arkeologer har gjennom flere år systematisk foretatt en nedprioritering av metodiske spørsmål til fordel for utvikling av ny og spennende teori. Denne utviklingen har selvsagt vært prisverdig, men ...

This article presents Gérard Genette’s concept of the paratext by defining the term and by describing its characteristics. The use of the concept in other disciplines than literary studies and for other media than printed books is discussed. The last section shows the relevance of the concept for library and information science in general and for knowledge organization, in which paratext in particular ...

In his study, Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation , the French literature scholar Gérard Genette introduces the concept of the “paratext” to the public. Genette explains the term paratext as that “what enables a text to become a book and to be offered as such to its readers and, more generally, to the public” (Genette 1997, 1). Genette’s concept has since also been applied to other media, ...

Citizen participation is enshrined in the Norwegian Planning and Building Act (PBA) 1985 and accentuated by the 2008 revision of the PBA. In this article, we ask if the research on participation in municipal planning is sufficient to draw conclusions on whether the Act is effective with regard to both the spirit and the letter of the law. The guiding framework for the analysis is based on the ...