“Merits and Demerits of Ibsen’s great play”: The Reception of a performance of A Doll’s House by the Novelty Theatre Company at The Theatre Royal Brighton England June 20th 1889.<p> <p>This article discusses the reception of a matinée performance of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House on June 20th 1889 at The Theatre Royal Brighton England. This would be the only performance mounted outside London ...

In this article I will give an account of the seminaries between 1717 and 1732 in the cathedral city of Trondheim, Norway. Key questions that the article seeks to answer are who initiated and supported these seminars, and also how they were organized and how staff and seminarians were recruited. Seminarium Scholasticum was initiated by the Danish Society for promoting Christian knowledge (Misjonskollegiet) ...

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 ...

Assessing the impact of human development on animals is complicated by the fact that overt effects may have covert causes. Cryptic impacts (sensu Raiter et al. 2014) can arise where sensory stimuli to which species respond fall outside the human sensory range. Ultraviolet (UV) light, which is detected by a range of nonprimate mammals, is a potential example. We review evidence that dark-adapted eyes ...

During the last decades debates and concerns over deaccessioning and disposal have affected museums worldwide. At the root of the debate lies the ever more pressing problem with overstocked collection; the consequence of decades and even centuries of allegedly far too liberal and eclectic collecting and acquisition practices. This paper presents some alternative views and argues in favor of ...

The discovery of an amber bead and an unusual type of slate knife at a site near Tromsø, Norway instigated reflection upon inter-regional mobility and possible travel routes in northern Fennoscandia. In combination with finds near Kilpisjärvi, Finland, these early Neolithic objects found far from their main distribution area allow us to suggest that the Torne River and its connected waterways provided ...

Høsten 1944 iverksatte den tyske okkupasjonsmakten operasjon «Nordlicht», også kjent som «den brente jords taktikk». De materielle ødeleggelsene og de menneskelige omkostningene var enorme. Selve ødeleggelsene og operasjonen er godt dokumentert, men ikke de langsiktige samfunnsmessige og politiske konsekvensene. I denne artikkelen bruker vi to kausale design, endring-i-endringer og den syntetiske ...

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 ...