Beyond Pippi Longstocking: Intermedial and International Approaches to Astrid Lindgren's Work

ISBN-13: 9781138847262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 276 str.

Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer; Astrid Surmatz

Opis

Astrid Lindgren, author of the famed Pippi Longstocking novels, is perhaps one of the most significant children's authors of the last half of the twentieth century. In this collection contributors consider films, music, and picturebooks relating to Lindgren, in addition to the author's reception internationally. Touching on everything from the Astrid Lindgren theme park at Vimmerby, Sweden to the hidden folk songs in Lindgren's works to the use of nostalgia in film adaptations of Lindgren's novels, this collection offers an important international and intermedial portrait of Lindgren research today.

Recenzje

"An impressively diverse collection in terms of both methodology and subject... The essays in this volume demonstrate how Astrid Lindgren defined and continues to resonate with both a specific national identity and the citizenry of the so-called universal republic of childhood." - Karen Coats, Children's Literature Association Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction  Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Astrid Surmatz  I. Different Aspects of the International Reception  1. Pippi Longstocking in the United States: Representations and Reception  Eva-Maria Metcalf  2. Pippi Longstocking in South Africa: Translation and Reception  Rolf Annas  3. We Love What We Know: The Canonicity of Pippi Longstocking in Different Media in Flanders  Sara van den Bossche  II. Intermedial Studies: Films  4. Re-making the National Past: The Uses of Nostalgia in the Astrid Lindgren Films of the 1980s and 1990s  Anders Åberg  5. Intermediality in Children’s Literature: Reflections of Adult Relationships in the Film "Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter"  Tobias Kurwinkel and Philipp Schmerheim  6. Bill Bergson, a Political Statement or a Symbol of Swedishness? A Comparison of Astrid Lindgren’s Bill Bergson Texts with the 1990s Film Adaptations  Corina Löwe  III. Intermedial Studies: Illustrations and Picture Books  7. Visualizing People: Multimodal Character Construction in Astrid Lindgren’s Work  Maria Nikolajeva  8. Astrid Lindgren’s Picturebooks: One Text -- Two Illustrators  Agnes Bjorvand  9. Photographical Picture Books by Anna Riwkin-Brick and Astrid Lindgren  Helene Ehriander  10. To Mirror the Real: Ideology and Aesthetics in Photographic Picturebooks  Elina Druker  IV. Intermedial Studies: Music, Sculpture, and Architecture  11. In Heaven There Is Great Joy: Folk Song Tradition in the Writings of Astrid Lindgren  Magnus Gustafsson  12. The Sound and Music of Astrid Lindgren  Björn Sundmark  13. Disbeliefs in the Sculptural Imagination: On Theatricality and Intermediality in the Astrid Lindgren Memorials  Jens Arvidson  14. Astrid Lindgren’s World in Vimmerby – a "Total Work of Art"?  Heidrun Führer