The National Library of Norway (NB) has digitized its entire collection of books. This article examines how to make use of this collection in literary studies. The article focuses on the literature of the late 1800s and asks in particular how the modern press made an impact on Norwegian literature in the late 1800s. Based on a series of close readings of canonical texts, we hypothesise that the rise of the commercial newspaper in Norway initiated a new and ambivalent notion of subjectivity that surfaced in literary texts throughout the second half of the nineteenth century. By way of keyword searches, and digital N-gram and collocation analyses in the NB's digitized archive, we find new empirical material that supports this hypothesis and invites further studies.
Frode Lerum Boasson
SAMMENDRAGDenne artikkelen undersøker hva et forfatterjubileum er, og hvorfor vi hadde så mange av dem i Norge på begynnelsen av 2000-tallet. Forfatterjubileet forstås i lys av en større jubileumskultur der kommersielle og offentlige interesser går sammen om å bruke forfatteren som en merkevare. Artikkelen undersøker denne bruken, hvilke vurderinger og fortolkningsgrep som ligger til grunn, og argumenterer for at jubileene produserer forfatterkonstruksjoner som kan forstås som performative størrelser skapt og regulert på bakgrunn av politiske strategier for å fornye og profilere nasjonen.Nøkkelord Forfatterjubileer, forfatterfunksjonen, breddediplomati, nasjonsprofilering, Ibsen, Wergeland, Hamsun, Bjørnson
ABSTRACTThis article examines what an author anniversary is and why we saw so many of them in Norway in the early 2000s. Author anniversaries are understood in relationship to an anniversary culture where commercial and governmental interests join forces in order to use the author as a brand. The article examines their use as such, the underpinning assessments and interpretations, arguing that the anniversaries produce new author constructs that can be understood as performative figures created and regulated on the basis of political strategies for renewing and branding the nation.
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