Beyond Pippi Longstocking : intermedial and international approaches to Astrid Lindgren's work /

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Imprint:New York : Routledge, 2014.
Description:xvi, 275 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Children's literature and culture
Children's literature and culture.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10174437
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Other authors / contributors:Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina, editor.
Surmatz, Astrid, 1966- editor.
ISBN:9781138847262
1138847267
Notes:First published: New York : Routledge, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I. Different Aspects of the International Reception
  • 1. Pippi Longstocking in the United States: Representations and Reception
  • 2. Pippi Longstocking in South Africa: Translation and Reception
  • 3. We Love What We Know: The Canonicity of Pippi Longstocking in Different Media in Flanders
  • II. Intermedial Studies: Films
  • 4. Re-making the National Past: The Uses of Nostalgia in the Astrid Lindgren Films of the 1980s and 1990s
  • 5. Intermediality in Children's Literature: Reflections of Adult Relationships in the Film "Ronia, the Robber's Daughter"
  • 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
  • III. Intermedial Studies: Illustrations and Picture Books
  • 7. Visualizing People: Multimodal Character Construction in Astrid Lindgren's Work
  • 8. Astrid Lindgren's Picturebooks: One Text -- Two Illustrators
  • 9. Photographical Picture Books by Anna Riwkin-Brick and Astrid Lindgren
  • 10. To Mirror the Real: Ideology and Aesthetics in Photographic Picturebooks
  • IV. Intermedial Studies: Music, Sculpture, and Architecture
  • 11. In Heaven There Is Great Joy: Folk Song Tradition in the Writings of Astrid Lindgren
  • 12. The Sound and Music of Astrid Lindgren
  • 13. Disbeliefs in the Sculptural Imagination: On Theatricality and Intermediality in the Astrid Lindgren Memorials
  • 14. Astrid Lindgren's World in Vimmerby - a "Total Work of Art"?