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Visions of the Nation and Feelings of Loss in the Works of Steen Steensen Blicher
(Chapter, 2021)The Danish writer Steen Steensen Blicher was an outstanding and influential voice of the Biedermeier period, known for stories such as The Robber’s Den (1827), The Rector of Veilbye (1829), and The Hosier and His Daughter ... -
Vokalforlengelse i bergensk En optimalitetsteoretisk analyse
(Master thesis, 2003) -
Vold og visjoner i sjette bind av Karl Ove Knausgårds Min kamp
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-10-26)In this dissertation, I discuss questions of violence and ethics in the last volume of Karl Ove Knausgård’s novel in six parts, Min kamp (Eng. My Struggle). Perhaps his crowning achievement, the last tome of Knausgårds’s ... -
Vorzeit und Nachwelt: Archivtheorie und Denkmalschutz in J.W. Goethes 'Die Wahlverwandtschaften‘
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In den von der Forschung bisher nur wenig beachteten Themenkomplexen der Archivierung, des Denkmalschutzes und der Restaurierung konzentrieren sich zentrale darstellerische Problematiken von Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften. ... -
Walking, Haunting, and Affirmative Aesthetics: The Case of Women without Men
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01-22)Walking and ‘haunting space’ have become means of political and aesthetic resistance to the invisibility or inhospitality that women face in the public sphere. Power imbalance in spatial habitation—‘power-geometry’ in ... -
Was Alois Riegl Colour Blind?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In his formalist art history, Alois Riegl (1858-1905) focuses on figure and ground, light and dark, and tactile versus optical features. Strangely, he shows little interest in colour. Thus, in Stilfragen (1893) and in ... -
Ways of knowing with data visualizations
(Chapter, 2020)Data visualizations combine numeric data with visual representation, and these modes allow them to express certain kinds of knowledge more easily than others. This chapter uses examples of historical data visualizations ... -
"We are famous on the Internet": A study of the Chinese phenomenon of Wanghong
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We speak with our hands and voices": Iconicity in the Adamorobe Sign Language and the Akuapem Twi (Ideophones)
(Master thesis, 2015-05-11)Abstract This research drew on the linguistic concept of iconicity and with a period of three months, five deaf signers of the Adamorobe community and some unspecified Akuapem Twi (Akan) speakers were studied and interviewed. ... -
Weblogs and blogging Constructivist pedagogy and active learning in higher education
(Master thesis, 2007-02) -
Weblogs: Learning in Public
(Journal article, 2005-06-01)Purpose – Seeks to exemplify and discuss how students’ use of weblogs can prepare them for a networked world where writing has consequences outside grades. Design/methodology/approach – Experiences using weblogs with ... -
What dreams of electric sheep – analysing public perception of synthetic influencers
(Master thesis, 2023-11-23)Synthetic Influencers are a relatively new kind of influencers who have been introduced online. They emulate human influencers with their massive online fanbases, use of selfies and opinions on current trends. As a technology ... -
'What is this strange language?' Reflections on the Barbaric in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and François-René de Chateaubriand
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Examining the ideas of the barbarian and barbarism, this article considers and compares the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and François-René de Chateaubriand in both historical and poetical terms. I argue that both Rousseau ... -
Wheat or chaff? A Compound Selection Model Based on Look-Up Data
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Which compounds should be included in general-purpose dictionaries is often an open question that is answered with a case-by-case consideration of all compounds above a certain corpus frequency threshold. Another way to ... -
When Galba was still alive: A comparative study of Tacitean vocabulary and language
(Master thesis, 2013-05-12)This thesis explores a particular Tacitean phrase, which occurs twice in his corpus. I argue that this phrase is intentionally ambiguous and reflects Tacitus' clever use of heightened rhetoric. "Incolumi adhuc Galba" occurs ... -
Where was Providence? Religiøs tvil i Thomas Hardys Tess of the D'Urbervilles
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg tematikken rundt religiøs tvil i Thomas Hardys roman, Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Gjennom en nærstudie av romanens hovedperson, Tess, sin ferd gjennom narrativet, vil jeg peke på hennes ... -
Who succeeds and who fails? Exploring the role of background variables in explaining the outcomes of L2 language tests
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This study explores whether and to what extent the background information supplied by 10,155 immigrants who took an official language test in Norwegian affected their chances of passing one, two, or all three parts of the ... -
Why the child cannot be happy
(Master thesis, 2017-06-13)Intetkjønnsformer av adjektiver i norsk og svensk dannes ved en regelmessig og produktiv regel der man legger et intetkjønnsmorfem /-t/ til stammen av adjektivet. Det finnes unntak i at enkelte adjektiv ikke følger denne ... -
"With His Blood He Wrote". Functions of the Pact Motif in Faustian Literature
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-05-19)