Nordlit  

Helène Whittaker, Michael Schmidt, Anne Heith

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Hein Viljoen

Much of the South African poet Breyten Breytenbach's work has been concerned with borders. In this article I examine borders and creolization in three important poems from Nine landscapes of our time bequeathed to a beloved (Nege landskappe bemaak aan 'n ... see more

Fredrik Chr. Brøgger

 

Tanja Dromnes, Sandra Lee Kleppe, Kenneth Mikalsen, Sigrid Solhaug

In this article we examine the title terms of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) with particular attention to their distribution and frequency in the text. Our method is to connect the statistical material gathered on frequency and distribution to a... see more

Geir Grenersen

 

Ragnhild Maria Hauglid Henden

 

Silvia Lutter

Metaforen er eit kjent stilistisk middel i litteraturen. Han er allereie omtalt hjå Aristoteles og brukt i prosa og lyrikk den dag i dag. Kenningen, derimot, vart framom alt brukt av skaldane i den norrøne tida. I dag kjennes det heller tilgjort å bruke k... see more

Ruben Moi, Thoralf Fagertun

Despite the fact that literary theory has sought new orientations since Derridás biblioblitz in the late 1960s and early 1970s, this article claims that the French philosopher's multiple approaches to literatureindubitably mark a shift in literary hermene... see more

Jan Schlosser

 

Michael Schmidt

 

Martin Schuhmann

 

Helena Bodin

This article discusses the notion of Byzantium and Byzantium's potential capacities as a multifaceted borderland, as shaped and perceived in Julia Kristeva's novel Murder in Byzantium. In spite of its title, this is not a historical, but rather a so-calle... see more

Roswitha Skare

The origins of the notion of both text and document can be traced back to antiquity. Over the course of their respective histories – which I will not go into at this juncture – the meanings of both terms have evolved. Beyond the commonly used meanings, th... see more

Steen Christiansen

Suicidegirls.com is a website which is both an online community, but also a softcore pin-up site, where the models feature extensive body modifications in the form of tattoos and piercings. The website promotes a democratic approach to the photo shoots, a... see more

Johan Schimanski, Stephen Frank Wolfe

The essays in this issue of Nordlit focus on how historical and contemporary border discourses, expressive and aesthetic representations, are generated, circulated, and interpreted in both local and global contexts.

Ruben Moi

Although literature and poetry have numerous borders of their own,these are rarely assumed to have any significance for the world out-side the text itself. A number of reasons for this distinctive division certainly stem from the literary field itself. Th... see more

Jaume Castan Pinos

This article will examine the border and identity challenges for the Spanish (semi)enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, which are surrounded by the Moroccan state. This issue is obviously related to the study of territorial boundaries and more specifically to t... see more

Nicole Pissowotzki

This paper argues that the Canadian North is a discursive construction, within which German colonial fantasies emerge. In particular, I argue that it is through bordering that colonial fantasies of German Lebensraum ("living space") in the Canadian North ... see more

Mieke Bal

Taking up some moments from the documentary film Becoming Vera, in this article I offer a plea for a cultural life "de-limited" by identity (Schimanski and Wolfe). Through the awaking cultural awareness of a three-year-old girl who negotiates borders esta... see more

Olga Taraskina

Culture has always been one of the most neglected aspects of the critical analysis of cross-border cooperation. It is the least studied and least understood aspect of international cooperation. That's why it is clear that the study of culture and cross-bo... see more