Preface / Audun Eckhoff, Stein Olav Henrichsen Edvard Munch's performative self-portraits / Jon-Ove Steihaug Art equals life? Munch and the problem of biography / Jay A. Clarke Town, fjord and landscape. Edvard Munch's search for the soul of a place / Hans-Martin Frydenberg Flaatten The narratives of the frieze of life. Edvard Munch's picture series / Mai Britt Guleng The monumental artist in public. The artist as monument / Patricia G. Berman Edvard Munch's visual rhetoric- seen through selected interiors / Nils Ohlsen Edvard Munch's portraits. Artistic platform and source of renewal / Øystein Ustvedt Reading the repeated kiss: A narratological experiment / Trine Nordkvelle Edvard Munch between gender, love and women's rights / Ingeborg W. Owesen Munch's Chinese box. Setting up Munch as a world artist 1945-63 / Øivind Storm Bjerke