Friedrich Nietzsche’s treatise “Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik” (1872) has, with the symbolist poet and critic Vyacheslav Ivanov as an important intermediary, exerted a strong influence on Dostoevsky scholarship which can be traced up to this day. The present short paper discusses some aspects of this tradition of interpretation.

I det siste tiåret har det vært gjennomført to forsøk med såkalt tidlig start på 2. fremmedspråk i Norge. De deltagende barneskolene tilbød i disse forsøkene undervisning i et 2. fremmedspråk etter engelsk. Evalueringene konkluderte med, etter begge forsøk, at elevene som oftest stortrives med å lære seg et 2. fremmedspråk allerede på barneskolen. Samtidig ble det avdekket et klart forskningsbehov, ...

The current study focuses on how different scales with varying demands can affect our subjective assessments. We carried out 2 experiments in which we asked participants to rate how happy or sad morphed images of faces looked. The two extremes were the original happy and original sad faces with 4 morphs in between. We manipulated language of the task—namely, half of the participants carried it ...

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 ...

The first Sámi newspaper, Sagai Muitalæggje, was established in 1903, and in 1906 the first Sámi was elected to the Norwegian parliament. Through these two events, the Sámi (the indigenous population of Norway) had their own voice heard and achieved political influence in the public sphere for the first time. What was the role and significance of libraries in this process? Anders Larsen, the editor ...

Die in der Schule als zweite Fremdsprachen gelernten Sprachen sind in Norwegen als Universitätsfächer in der Krise, darunter Deutsch. Geringe Studentenzahlen, schwache sprachliche Kompetenzen der Studienanfänger und ein auf den Lehrerberuf begrenzter Abnehmermarkt sind die Hauptherausforderungen. Gleichzeitig ruft die Wirtschaft in Norwegen nach Fachkräften, die gut Deutsch können und diese ...

Background and aims: Many children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) develop reading difficulties. The purpose of this study is to better understand variation in the reading outcomes of children with DLD using a personcentered approach.<p> <p>Method: 87 monolingual Dutch children diagnosed with DLD performed at ages 5 or 6 years nine tests of nonverbal IQ, oral language proficiency, ...

Opera can be considered a multimedia document created through a complex process involving multiple people and media. Opera arose in the 17th century as a way to synthesize multiple art forms. This work offers a panoramic overview of the historic development of opera, including examples of key works along this trajectory. It closes with some questions about the future of opera.

Contemporary reviewers of Byron’s work often noted his skill in cultivating sympathy for outlaw figures – a skill that was admired, but also worried over since it implied sympathy’s independence from a moral code. Recent scholarship about sympathy in the Romantic period has not focused much on Byron, but this essay highlights acomplexity and originality in his invocation of sympathy that has been ...

Når den russiske presidenten hevdar at Ukraina høyrer heime i det russiske imperiet, viser han mellom anna til språklege tilhøve. Ukrainsk er ikkje noko eige språk, blir det sagt. Dei færraste språkvetarar vil vere samde i dette. La oss sjå nærmare på dei faktiske forholda. Korleis er slektskapen mellom ukrainsk og russisk? Kor ulike er dei to språka? Korleis har forholdet mellom ukrainsk og russisk ...