Writing Democracy

Karen Gammelgaard is a Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her publications focus on the interface between text and context and include Transforming National Holidays: Identity Discourse in the West and South Slavic Countries, 1985–2010 (co-editor, 2013) and Tekst og historie: Å lese tekster historisk (co-author, 2008).

“This is an interesting and timely collection of studies of an important document that is all too often neglected by scholars of other countries and traditions.”  ·  Lynn Hunt, UCLA“Writing Democracy is a marvelous study of textual practices connected to the use of the Norwegian constitution and is thus situated in the engine room of modern Western style democracy.”  ·  Peter Hervik, Aalborg University

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsNote on interdisciplinarity and stylistic conventionsIntroduction: The Norwegian Constitution as a textKaren Gammelgaard and Eirik HolmøyvikPART I: EMBARKING ON THE MATTERChapter 1. The Thing that Invented NorwayWilliam B. Warner, Eirik Holmøyvik, and Mona RingvejChapter 2. The changing meaning of “constitution” in Norwegian constitutional historyEirik HolmøyvikChapter 3. The many textual identities of constitutionsDag MichalsenPART II: TRANSNATIONAL CONVERSATIONSChapter 4. The Norwegian Constitution and the Rhetoric of Political PoetryUlrich SchmidChapter 5. Constitution as a Transnational Genre: Norway 1814 and the Habsburg Empire 1848–1849Karen GammelgaardChapter 6. Discursive patterns in the Italian and Norwegian ConstitutionsJacqueline ViscontiPART III: HISTORICAL TRANSFORMATIONSChapter 7. Timing the Constitutional Moment: Time and Language in the Norwegian ConstitutionHelge JordheimChapter 8. The Norwegian Constitution and its multiple codes: Expressions of historical and political changeInger-Johanne SandChapter 9. Norwegian parliamentary discourse 2004–2012 on the Norwegian Constitution’s language formYordanka Madzharova BruteigPART IV: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSIONChapter 10. The evolution of a public opinion text culture in Denmark-Norway 1770–1799Kjell Lars BergeChapter 11. To speak what the hour demands: Framing the future of public speech at Eidsvold in 1814Mona RingvejChapter 12. Scholarly texts’ influence on the 2004 revision of the Norwegian Constitution’s Article 100Ragnvald KallebergAppendixesAppendix I: Constitution for Kongeriget NorgeAppendix II: The Constitution of the Kingdom of NorwayBibliographyContributors