Oslo Academic Press – förlag

Ce livre se veut une introduction aux contextes social, politique, litteraire et plus largement culturel du monde francophone hors de France. Il traite en particulier le role et le statut de la langue francaise - dans le passe (grandes decouvertes, colonisation) et dans le present : Quels sont les domaines d'utilisation du francais ? Par quelles parties de la population est-il parle ? Quels sont ses rapports avec les langues locales/nationales ? Quel sera son avenir face a ces langues et face a l'anglais, la premiere langue mondiale ? Les reponses a ces questions se trouvent, entre autres, dans une description des divers contextes du francais - une description que les auteurs ont voulu plus sobre et plus realiste que celles qu'on rencontre souvent dans le cadre du mouvement politique de la Francophonie. Le livre s'adresse a tous ceux qui souhaitent s'informer de plus pres de ces questions et inclure dans leurs references geoculturelles le monde d'expression francaise hors de France : les enseignants et etudiants des facultes des sciences humaines et sociales, les professeurs de francais des colleges et lycees, comme aussi le public general. Les auteurs sont specialistes de trois differentes regions du monde francophone. John Kristian Sanaker est professeur de litterature francaise a l'Universite de Bergen, et specialiste du Quebec; Karin Holter est professeur emerite de litterature francaise a l'Universite d'Oslo, et specialiste du Maghreb; et Ingse Skattum est sociolinguiste, professeur d'etudes francophones a l'Universite d'Oslo, et specialiste de l'Afrique subsaharienne. THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH ONLY.

This anthology springs out of a productive environment that in recent years has been created in Norway for research into the art of Edvard Munch. Comprising scholars from both the University of Oslo and the Munch Museum, this environment seeks to internationalize the research and broadening the network of scholars working on Munch's art. The nine essays written by art historians from the US, Germany, Switzerland, and Norway shed new light upon different sides of Munch and his art, as well as on the impact he has had in art history. The authors in this anthology are more critical of their sources than has been seen earlier in research on Munch, and their interpretations of works are increasingly based on information that can be documented. A diversity of theory now supplements the traditionally biographical approach. One of the authors describes the process of identifying a formerly unknown Munch painting, Seated Nude and Three Male Heads, as well as addressing general problems of dating concerning Munch's oeuvres. In another essay, it is argued that Munch and his works have often been better comprehended by other artists than by traditional art historians. The essay shows how certain artists - most of them American such as Jim Dine, Andres Serrano, and Elizabeth Jones - have appropriated and developed Munch's pictorial imagination, in independent works or in visual quotations.

This book is a collection of articles about communication and ethics in the field of medicine and health care. Common to all the articles is that they are not directly based on empirical investigations. The discussions refer to research that has already been carried out and documented in existing literature. In this sense, the articles belong to what is often called applied philosophy. All the articles address communicative and ethical challenges in patient interaction on the basis of assumptions in modern moral philosophy and philosophy of language. There is a great need for literature that deals more comprehensively with the themes discussed in this book. It is particularly difficult to find suitable material that can be used in teaching at the graduate and master levels. Foundations of Health Care is designed to meet this need. It is suitable for use in all higher-level courses where the aim is to give students a theoretical understanding of ethical dilemmas and communicative challenges in health care.