Sissel Furuseth

Professor - Nordic Literature

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Academic interests

Sissel Furuseth's research is focused on Scandinavian literature from the 18th century up till today. Her main research interests are within the fields of 1) literary criticism and periodical studies, 2) ecocriticism and environmental literature, and 3) versification and poetry studies. She is affiliated with the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, coordinating the collaboratory Critical Petroaesthetics.

Background

In 2017-2019, Furuseth was Head of Research at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo. From 1996 to 2016 she worked at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. She was the project manager for the inter-university research project The History of Literary Critical Response in Norway, 1870-2000: Value-Judgments and Mediation (funded by the Research Council of Norway, 2009-2015) and coordinating a Master’s program of Art Criticism at the Faculty of Arts at NTNU (2007-2014).

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Member of The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
Member of The Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies
Chair of the Nordic Society for Metrical Studies

Tags: Nordic literature, Cli-Fi, Ecocriticism, Literary Reception, Digital Humanities, Cognitive Poetics, Periodicals

Furuseth, Sissel (2022). Facing the Black Death: Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter in Times of Pandemics. INTERLITTERARIA 27 (1). 57-68.

Furuseth, Sissel (2021). Nordic Contemporary Fiction Grieving the Loss of Snow. NORDEUROPAforum. ISSN: 1863-639x.158-173.

Furuseth, Sissel (2020). The cultural memory of circumpolar survival. In: Gunilla Hermansson & Jens Lohfert Jørgensen (ed.), Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 9789027207890. 67-80.

Furuseth, Sissel, Anne Gjelsvik, Reinhard Hennig, Julia Leyda, Katie Ritson (2020). Climate Change in Literature, Television and Film from Norway. Ecozon@ Vol. 11, No. 2. ISSN 2171-9594. 8-16.

Furuseth, Sissel (2016). The literary magazine and the making of a writer: Gunnhild Øyehaug in the space of possibles. In: Sarah J. Paulson & Anders Skare Malvik (ed.), Literature in Contemporary Media Culture: Technology - Subjectivity - Aesthetics. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 9789027201294. 149-170.

Furuseth, Sissel (2016). Profil 1966-69: Triumph and Crisis of the Collective. In: Tania Ørum & Jesper Olsson (ed.), A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9789004310490. 217-224.

Furuseth, Sissel (2009). The poem as a site of inherited structures and artistic innovation. In: Tonya Kim Dewey & Frog (ed.), Versatility in Versification. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Metrics. Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, Vol. 74. Peter Lang. ISSN 0893-6935. 183-205.

Furuseth, Sissel (2004). To Take Possession of a Poet: Gunvor Hofmo and her Biographer. In: Helena Forsås-Scott (ed.), Gender - Power - Text: Nordic Culture in the Twentieth Century. Norvik Press. ISBN 1-870041-60-7. 201-216.

Furuseth, Sissel (2022). Facing the Black Death: Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter in Times of Pandemics. Interlitteraria. ISSN 1406-0701. 27(1), p. 57–68. doi: 10.12697/IL.2022.27.1.6. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
At the end of Sigrid Undset’s medieval trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter (1920–1922), the heroine encounters the bubonic plague that so violently hit Europe in the mid-fourteenth century. The aim of this paper is to explore the connections between the 20th century novel and the European tradition of plague literature from the broader perspective of environmental history. Furthermore, it discusses the historical novel’s effect as a distant mirror for 20th and 21st century readers. An underlying argument is that the ethical imperative in Kristin Lavransdatter is affecting the way the protagonist encounters the plague, which may explain what distinguishes Undset from many of her contemporaries.
Furuseth, Sissel (2021). Sustainability dilemmas in Maja Lunde's climate change novels. In Axelsson, Marcus & Opset, Barbro Bredesen (Ed.), Fortellinger om bærekraftig utvikling. Perspektiver for norskfaget. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 978-82-15-05008-9. p. 85–102. doi: https%3A/doi.org/10.18261/9788215050089-2021-04.
Furuseth, Sissel (2021). Nordic Contemporary Fiction Grieving the Loss of Snow. NORDEUROPAforum. ISSN 1863-639X. p. 158–173. doi: 10.18452/23923. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
The article calls attention to how snow and ice are embodied as grievable entities in Nordic 21st century climate change fiction, arguing that contemporary fiction is a valuable apparatus for processing ecological mourning. The author draws theoretically on Ashlee Cunsolo’s work on ecological grief, while the overarching research question is how scientific warnings about global warming and shrinking cryosphere are dealt with emotionally and aesthetically in Nordic literature. A comparative analysis of the Scandinavian cli-fi novels Den afskyelige (»The abominable «, 2016), written by Danish Charlotte Weitze, and Steffen tar sin del av ansvaret (»Steffen takes his share of the responsibility«, 2009), by Norwegian Christian Valeur forms the backbone of the article. In both novels, the young protagonists are realizing that snow is a scarce resource, close to disappearing. Facing this fact arouses interrelated emotions of grief, guilt and confusion, but also gallows humour, gratitude and pride. From these observations, the author argues that fiction may play a crucial role for a deeper understanding of the emotional complex of climate anxiety, grief and resilience.
Furuseth, Sissel (2021). Noe tapt og noe funnet. Om Vinduet i Nasjonalbibliotekets digitale bokhylle. Vinduet. ISSN 0042-6288. 75(1-2), p. 12–17.
Furuseth, Sissel (2021). Bilen som økokritisk utfordring: Carl Frode Tiller og Henrik Nor-Hansen diagnostiserer norsk petroleumskultur. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. ISSN 0013-0818. 108(2), p. 128–141. doi: 10.18261/issn.1500-1989-2021-02-05. Full text in Research Archive
Furuseth, Sissel (2020). The cultural memory of circumpolar survival. In Hermansson, Gunilla & Jørgensen, Jens Lohfert (Ed.), Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027207890. p. 67–80.
Furuseth, Sissel (2020). Kristin Lavransdatter og svartedauden i miljøhistorisk perspektiv. In Rønning, Anne Birgitte; Bjørkøy, Aasta Marie Bjorvand; Evensen, Nina Marie & Wiger, Ellen Nessheim (Ed.), Sigrid Undset: Kransen. Tekstkritisk utgave. Det norske språk- og litteraturselskap. ISSN 978-82-8319-576-7. p. 46–49.
Furuseth, Sissel; Gjelsvik, Anne; Gürata, Ahmet; Hennig, Reinhard; Leyda, Julia & Ritson, Katie (2020). Climate Change in Literature, Television and Film from Norway. Ecozona. ISSN 2171-9594. 11(2), p. 8–16. doi: 10.37536/ECOZONA.2020.11.2.3468. Full text in Research Archive
Furuseth, Sissel (2020). Intellektuell kolonisering av naturbegrepet. Bøygen: Organ for nordisk språk og litteratur. ISSN 0806-8623. 32(2), p. 36–41.
Furuseth, Sissel (2019). Lyrisk beredskap. Et enklere språk for krisetider? In Aarvik, Trude-Kristin Mjelde; Skorgen, Torgeir & Vassenden, Eirik (Ed.), Undergang og utopi : poesi i krisetider. Alvheim og Eide akademisk forlag. ISSN 9788293690047. p. 151–171.
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). Verden åpnet seg. Et økokritisk gjensyn med Amalie Skrams Forraadt (1892). Filologen. ISSN 0807-9250. p. 20–24.
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). Tor Jonsson og kritikken. In Karlsen, Ole (Eds.), Kom susande, seinhaustnatt. Fire artikler om Tor Jonssons lyrikk. Oplandske Bokforlag. ISSN 978-82-7518-261-4. p. 34–54. Full text in Research Archive
Furuseth, Sissel (2017). Ubalanse i det globale regnskapet. Om økologisk urett og gjenoppreisning i Gert Nygårdshaugs Mengele Zoo. In Bakken, Jonas & Oxfeldt, Elisabeth (Ed.), Åpne dører mot verden. Norske ungdommers møte med fortellinger om skyld og privilegier. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 978-82-15-03022-7. p. 195–215. doi: 10.18261/9788215030227-2017-12. Full text in Research Archive
Furuseth, Sissel (2017). Fugleskrift (økokritiske forsøk). Bøygen: Organ for nordisk språk og litteratur. ISSN 0806-8623. p. 8–16. Full text in Research Archive

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Furuseth, Sissel & Gonsholt, Simen V. (2021). Digitalisering og tidsskrifthistorie.
Børdahl, Amund Ove; Furuseth, Sissel & Mollerin, Kaja Schjerven (2021). Hofmos prosa.
Furuseth, Sissel (2021). Varslere og stumtjenere i oljelandet. Forfatternes Klimaaksjon §112 Nettside..
Furuseth, Sissel (2021). Volds private Hofmo-arkiv. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. 53(194).
Furuseth, Sissel (2021). The Ethics of Posterity in Maja Lunde's Climate Change Novels.
Furuseth, Sissel; Iversen, Kristina Leganger; Bildøen, Brit & Stueland, Espen (2021). Grøn gåve - svart skuld.
Gjengedal, Kjerstin; Furuseth, Sissel; de Figueiredo, Ivo; Kroglund, Andrew P.; Martiniussen, Erik & Mørkhagen, Sverre [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2021). Slaget om mottakinga. [Journal]. Prosa.
Furuseth, Sissel; Kolloen, Ingar Sletten & Larsen, Selma Stormyren (2021). Setninger som øksehogg. [Newspaper]. Klassekampen.
Furuseth, Sissel (2020). Traveling Petromodernities: the Norwegian Reception of Upton Sinclair’s Oil!
Furuseth, Sissel (2020). Grundig om den skeive Undset [anmeldelse av Christine Myrvangs Tause kilders tale]. Prosa - tidsskrift for skribenter. ISSN 0805-276X. 26(6).
Furuseth, Sissel (2020). Grasrot mot asfalt. BLA - Bokvennen litterær avis. ISSN 2464-3971.
Furuseth, Sissel (2020). Kritikkens trange og åpne rom. Inntrykk fra de siste 20 år. ArtSceneTrondheim.
Skogvold, Ida; Aubert, Marie; Furuseth, Sissel & Norheim, Marta (2020). Klassekamp på samtidslitteraturens slagmark. Minerva (Oslo). ISSN 0805-7842. p. 86–92.
Furuseth, Sissel (2020). Er tidsskriftet liv laga?
Furuseth, Sissel (2020). Bibliographic Needs in Literary Reception and Periodical Studies: the Database Norsk litteraturkritikk as a Case in Point.
Furuseth, Sissel (2020). Oljeungers tvisyn. BLA - Bokvennen litterær avis. ISSN 2464-3971. 32(9), p. 16–17.
Furuseth, Sissel (2020). I begynnelsen var klimakrisen [anmeldelse av Andrew Kroglunds Termostat]. Vårt land. ISSN 0805-5424.
Furuseth, Sissel (2020). Øvelse i trangboddhet og frihetsberøvelse. BLA - Bokvennen litterær avis. ISSN 2464-3971. 32(6-7), p. 44–45.
Münster, Ursula; Furuseth, Sissel & Lilleslåtten, Mari (2020). Frykten for klimaendringer speiles i kulturen. [Internet]. IKOS UiO Aktuelle forskningssaker.
Damgaard, Sofie & Furuseth, Sissel (2020). "Litteratur kan fungere som mental doomsday-prepping". Vagant. ISSN 0802-0736.
Furuseth, Sissel (2020). Kristin og den svarte pesten. BLA - Bokvennen litterær avis. ISSN 2464-3971. 32(4), p. 12–13.
Furuseth, Sissel (2020). Økokrim og skyldspørsmålet. BLA - Bokvennen litterær avis. ISSN 2464-3971. 32(2), p. 28–29.
Furuseth, Sissel (2020). Nordic Contemporary Fiction Grieving the Loss of Snow.
Furuseth, Sissel; Rød, Arve & Røsvik, Merete (2019). Tredimensjonal prosa. Prosa - tidsskrift for skribenter. ISSN 0805-276X. 25(6), p. 4–13.
Furuseth, Sissel (2019). Fremtidens kropper. BLA - Bokvennen litterær avis. ISSN 2464-3971. 31(11-12), p. 26–27.
Furuseth, Sissel; Grinde, Bjørn; Selnæs, Nora & Munton, Dominic (2019). Hvordan informere om de store klima- og miljøutfordringene vi står overfor?
Furuseth, Sissel (2019). Shades of Blue in Norwegian Climate Fiction .
Furuseth, Sissel (2019). Fra skam til handling. BLA - Bokvennen litterær avis. ISSN 2464-3971. 31(9).
Furuseth, Sissel (2019). Glimpses of the History of the Nordic Society for Metrical Studies. NORDMETRIK News. ISSN 2535-6011. 2, p. 1–6.
Furuseth, Sissel (2019). Global citizenship education.
Furuseth, Sissel (2019). Økokritikk mellom vitenskap og aktivisme.
Furuseth, Sissel (2019). Kritikk som retorisk handling.
Furuseth, Sissel (2019). Nettverksanalyse og bruk av digitale ressurser i tidsskriftforskningen.
Furuseth, Sissel; Kvamme, Ole Andreas; Eide, Espen Barth; Kroneberg, Benedicte Meyer & Nesheim, Lea Justine (2019). Klimafrykt og sivil ulydighet på timeplanen.
Furuseth, Sissel; Betten, Eirin Andresen; Røsvik, Merete & Meyer, Jonas Hansen (2019). #Episode 4: Økokritikk. [Internet]. BLA-podden - Bokvennen Litterær Avis.
Furuseth, Sissel (2019). Environmental Literature and Ecocriticism in Norway.
Furuseth, Sissel (2019). Håpets betydning i norsk klimafiksjon.
Furuseth, Sissel (2019). Emigrantene. BLA - Bokvennen litterær avis. ISSN 2464-3971. 31(6/7).
Furuseth, Sissel; Hoem, Knut Ameln; Sanner, Jan Tore; Sibeko, Trym Johnsen; Espevik, Thomas & Gullestad, Frida Holsten [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2019). Ingen nevnt, mange glemt. [Newspaper]. Klassekampen.
Furuseth, Sissel (2019). Interacting with the Digital Archive: Periodical Studies in the 21st Century.
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). Metrics and versification in poetry and song: the 14th Nordic conference on metrics, 13–15 September, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden. Studia Metrica et Poetica. ISSN 2346-6901. 5(2), p. 112–114. Full text in Research Archive
Furuseth, Sissel & Frog, Mr (2018). NORDMETRIK News. NORDMETRIK News. ISSN 2535-6011.
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). Litteraturundervisning for bærekraftig utvikling.
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). Børli i bruk.
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). The Human (as) Nature and the Function of Indigenous Knowledge in Gert Nygårdshaug's Mengele Zoo (1989) and Kerstin Ekman's Blackwater (1993).
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). Hva kan diktningen bidra med i klimakampen?
Boasson, Frode Lerum; Furuseth, Sissel; Wærp, Henning Howlid & Olsen, Per Kristian (2018). Hva skjer når Hamsun er blitt grønn og ikke lenger brun? [Radio]. NRK P2.
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). Kunstkritikkens virtuelle fellesskap.
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). Tomas Tranströmer og musikken.
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). Nordisk beredskapslyrikk - utkast til en begrepshistorie.
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). Økologi og lyrisk beredskap.
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). "The hammer blows in the mountain came": Tomas Tranströmer interpreting Edvard Grieg.
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). Mapping the Global Networks of Periodicals: Kringsjaa (1893-1910) and the Digitized Bookshelf.
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). Norsk litteraturkritikks historie 1870-2010: prinsipper og kompromisser.
Biermann, Cille; Furuseth, Sissel; Hoem, Knut Ameln & Pedersen, Torgeir Rebolledo (2018). André Bjerke-biografien: Forundringspakke og godtepose. [Radio]. Åpen bok, NRK P2.
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). Oppmerksomhetsorganet [anmeldelse av Vinduet nr. 1/2018]. Klassekampens Bokmagasin.
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). Det store barnet [anmeldelse av Peter Normann Waages biografi om André Bjerke]. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. p. 44–45.
Furuseth, Sissel (2018). Invaderende offentligheter ved kritikkhistoriens sluttpunkt.
Furuseth, Sissel; Ellefsen, Bernhard & Nilsen, Gro Jørstad (2017). Hva er litteraturkritikk i Norge?
Furuseth, Sissel & Hennig, Reinhard (2017). Ecocriticism and Environmental Education.
Furuseth, Sissel; Larsen, Dag Eivind Undheim; Karlsen, Ole; Vassenden, Eirik & Vold, Jan Erik (2017). "De ignorerer en hel sjanger". [Newspaper]. Klassekampen.
Furuseth, Sissel (2017). Økologi og lyrisk beredskap.
Furuseth, Sissel (2017). Kritikkens imaginære fellesskap.
Males, Mikael & Furuseth, Sissel (2017). Boklunsj: Snorre och sagorna.
Furuseth, Sissel (2017). Markens Grøde som økologisk beredskapsdikting.
Botheim, Sigrid Sørumgård; Furuseth, Sissel; Haugen, Karin & Lindkvist, Ellisiv (2017). Har inntaksstopp på unge menn. [Internet]. NRK Kultur.
Lindkvist, Ellisiv; Haugen, Karin; Furuseth, Sissel; Botheim, Sigrid Sørumgård & Ellefsen, Bernhard (2017). Menn les menn. [Radio]. Kulturnytt, NRK P2.
Furuseth, Sissel (2017). Cosmopolitan Perceptiveness: Kringsjaa (1893-1910) and the Magazine Culture of the 1890s.
Furuseth, Sissel & Vassenden, Eirik (2017). Kritikkens funksjon før og nå.
Furuseth, Sissel & Christensen, Lars Saabye (2017). Bokbad med Lars Saabye Christensen.
Furuseth, Sissel (2017). Tor Jonsson og kritikken.
Furuseth, Sissel (2016). Nøste Kendzior (kritikerportrett). In Furuseth, Sissel; Thon, Jahn Holljen & Vassenden, Eirik (Ed.), Norsk litteraturkritikks historie 1870-2010. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 978-82-15-02450-9. p. 552–553.
Furuseth, Sissel (2016). Karin Moe (kritikerportrett). In Furuseth, Sissel; Thon, Jahn Holljen & Vassenden, Eirik (Ed.), Norsk litteraturkritikks historie 1870-2010. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 978-82-15-02450-9. p. 480–481.
Furuseth, Sissel (2016). Paal Brekke (kritikerportrett). In Furuseth, Sissel; Thon, Jahn Holljen & Vassenden, Eirik (Ed.), Norsk litteraturkritikks historie 1870-2010. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 978-82-15-02450-9. p. 332–333.
Furuseth, Sissel (2016). Erling Christie (kritikerportrett). In Furuseth, Sissel; Thon, Jahn Holljen & Vassenden, Eirik (Ed.), Norsk litteraturkritikks historie 1870-2010. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 978-82-15-02450-9. p. 312–313.
Furuseth, Sissel (2016). Eugenia Kielland (kritikerportrett). In Furuseth, Sissel; Thon, Jahn Holljen & Vassenden, Eirik (Ed.), Norsk litteraturkritikks historie 1870-2010. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 978-82-15-02450-9. p. 268–269.
Furuseth, Sissel (2016). Hans Tambs Lyche (kritikerportrett). In Furuseth, Sissel; Thon, Jahn Holljen & Vassenden, Eirik (Ed.), Norsk litteraturkritikks historie 1870-2010. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 978-82-15-02450-9.
Furuseth, Sissel & Beyer, Edvard (2016). Kristian Elster d.e. (kritikerportrett). In Furuseth, Sissel; Thon, Jahn Holljen & Vassenden, Eirik (Ed.), Norsk litteraturkritikks historie 1870-2010. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 978-82-15-02450-9. p. 34–35.
Furuseth, Sissel & Beyer, Edvard (2016). Erik Vullum (kritikerportrett). In Furuseth, Sissel; Thon, Jahn Holljen & Vassenden, Eirik (Ed.), Norsk litteraturkritikks historie 1870-2010. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 978-82-15-02450-9. p. 26–27.
Furuseth, Sissel (2016). Amalie Skram (kritikerportrett). In Furuseth, Sissel; Thon, Jahn Holljen & Vassenden, Eirik (Ed.), Norsk litteraturkritikks historie 1870-2010. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 978-82-15-02450-9. p. 58–59.
Furuseth, Sissel (2016). Mathilde Schjøtt (kritikerportrett). In Furuseth, Sissel; Thon, Jahn Holljen & Vassenden, Eirik (Ed.), Norsk litteraturkritikks historie 1870-2010. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 978-82-15-02450-9. p. 40–41.
Furuseth, Sissel (2016). The Modern Breakthrough in literary criticism.
Ellefsen, Bernhard; Furuseth, Sissel; Jul-Larsen, Kristoffer; Thon, Jahn Holljen; Vassenden, Eirik & Økland, Ingunn (2016). Litteraturkritikken i går, i dag og i morgen.
Furuseth, Sissel (2016). Kritikkhistorie og kvalitetsvurdering.
Furuseth, Sissel (2016). Tabloidkritikkens far. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. p. 48–49.
Jul-Larsen, Kristoffer; Malvik, Anders Skare & Furuseth, Sissel (2020). Discerning voices : Literary criticism and the dissemination of literature in Norwegian radio 1925–2000 . Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Det humanistiske fakultet, Institutt for språk og litteratur. ISSN 978-82-326-4406-3. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
The dissertation is a historical examination of the dissemination of literature, literary studies and book reviews in Norwegian radio in the period 1925–2000. There has never before been conducted a comprehensive study of this literary and pedagogical practice. Radio history, cultural journalism in general and the dissemination of literature in non-text-based media are all under-researched fields of study, in both literary and media studies. The dissertation is an attempt to improve this situation. The presentation takes as its starting point three overarching research questions, which taken together form the dissertation’s project: Firstly, the question of literary evaluation and its practice in radio is examined. What is the radio specific history of literary criticism, its form and content? Secondly, the relationship between the dissemination of literature and national Bildung in a public sphere where literature increasingly has been challenged by other media is considered. What are the characteristics of the relationship between the radio-mediated national arena and literature and literary studies? Thirdly, the dissertation analyses how the material qualities of the radio medium affect the literary content. These three research questions are closely related and are studied virtually simultaneously. The central tension discovered through this investigation is located between the conflicting purposes of literary dissemination in Norwegian radio. The powerful institutional position of a state-owned broadcaster has made it a complicated endeavour to balance entertainment, Bildung and literary evaluation. The dissemination of literature can entail everything from book reviews and historical lectures to interviews with writers and conversations with readers, to readings and dramatizations. All these forms of dissemination are discussed here, even if the book review and its practice is most often analysed. For the greater part of 1925–2000, Norwegian radio has been tantamount to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, and this institution’s importance for the development of radio in Norway can hardly be overstated. The dissertation offers an unusual view on literary history’s history and the self-conception of literary studies, by combining media-specific and institutionally historical perspectives on the material. It also develops new knowledge about the forms of literary comprehension have been possible to communicate at different times in Norwegian broadcasting. Finally, the dissertation makes available new insights into the historically changing position of literature in the Norwegian public sphere.