Det sublime og det skjønne som estetisk kvalitet i nyere norsk bildebokkritikk

This article analyses a specific number of picture book reviews on prize-winning Norwegian picture books from 1998-2008. The subject for the analysis is to examine what kind of aesthetic thinking that is expressed in the reviewer’s judgement of the book. I found that it was possible to relate the reviews to two well established concepts in classic aesthetic theory, namely the concept of the beauty and the sublime. To illustrate this I have studied more exhaustive a smaller number of reviews on two different books.Keywords: picture books, literary criticism, aesthetic theory, the beauty, the sublim