The article focuses on some of the unprecedented forms of judicial practices that emerged during the trial of Anders Behring Breivik in Oslo City Court in Norway after the terror attacks perpetrated on July 22 2011. Embracing an interpretive point of view mainly inspired by the philosopher Ernst Cassirer, the article sheds light on various performative practices and shows how they contribute to giving the catastrophic event a specific form. In this perspective the law can be framed as a process through which the distinction between the lawful and the unlawful gradually is established and recognized by the parties involved.
Jan Kjaerstads roman Berge. En åpning av den offentlige samtalen om terrorangrepene 22. juli 2011? Jan Kjaerstad's novel Berge. An "opening up" of the public debate on the terror attacks of
This article focuses on a frequently neglected part of the Norwegian author Inger Hagerup’s (1905-1985) work: her occupation with the popular genre of radio play. Based upon Ernst Cassirer’s dynamic approach to formative cultural work and expressive meaning, the article investigates two of Hagerup’s works produced for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK): Firstly her own radioplay Hilsen fra Katarina (1949), secondly her translation of Ingeborg Bachmann’s Der gute Gott von Manhattan (1957). Through a juxtaposition of the two, Hagerup’s own radio play stands out as an innovative contribution to the particular Norwegian development of this genre, and as a modern, far more experimental, work than her poems from the same period. Her translation of Bachmann’s work appears as surprisingly reductive with respect to the complexity of Bachmann’s original text. The article points out how the translation of Bachmann’s play to a Norwegian context can also be viewed as a cultural transfer highlighting different ideas of a popular genre during the first decades after World War II.
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