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Jens Andersen, Denna dagen, ett liv: En biografi över Astrid Lindgren/ Lena Törnqvist, Man tar vanliga ord: Att läsa om Astrid Lindgren
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Maria Sachiko Cecire, Hannah Field, Kavita Mudan Finn och Malini Roy (red.), Space and Place in children's Literature, 1789 to The Present
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Fantasy Imaginaries and Landscapes of Desire: Gustaf Tenggren’s Forgotten Decades
No full textGustaf Tenggren (1896–1970) was a 20th-century Swedish-born American illustrator of children’s books, magazines, advertisements, and artwork for the Disney Studio. Tenggren’s work was so ubiquitous that it remains in circulation and widely recognized today. But this large body of work has been understudied, as has its impact on the popular imagination. This article revisits Tenggren’s long career, and reinserts periods often skipped over, such as his work in magazine advertising during the 1920s and 1930s, and argues that although Tenggren is most often referred to as a children’s book and fairy-tale illustrator, his style was developed in the commercial field of magazine advertising, which incorporated aspects of modern art. That is, those aspects of modernism – abstraction, attention to form, the bright use of color for emotional impact – that were so much a part of fin de siècle Europe, a time when Tenggren was in art school, were appropriated first by advertising in America, and then by children’s book illustration. Thus, in the process, modernism was translated and democratized for middle-class consumers
Når fuglen flyr: Høyest elsket som eksperimentell utviklingsroman
No full textHøyest elsket (2000) by Hilde Hagerup is a complex novel. Its form is both traditional and experimental. This article explores how form consistently underlines and emphasizes content and affects how we understand Elisa, the main character. The analysis focuses on substantial and original formal features and their effects. The literary techniques that disrupt what is traditionally epic, are especially important for our understanding of Elisa. Elisa’s inner chaos is highlighted by linguistic, stylistic and compositional traits, which create a demanding, exhausting text. The open and indeterminate, chaotic and shifting text, contributes to the novel’s literary quality as well as to its (post)modernist character. In that way, the literary text reflects formally Elisa’s challenging reality, and Elisa’s need for peace, calm and harmony is transferred to the reader
Maria Lassén-Seger og Anne Skaret (red.), Empowering Transformations: Mrs. Pepperpot Revisited
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Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (red.), Picturebooks: Representation and Narration
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”Den lömske Judas!” Om bilden av Judas i Barnens bibel
No full textBarnens bibel (The Children’s Bible) by Anne de Vries is the best-selling children’s Bible in Northern Europe, with a circulation of nearly 900,000 copies in Sweden alone. Written in a language adapted to children it came to dominate the market from the 1960s onwards, not only in Swedish homes and churches but also in schools. This study uses the narratological tools narrator and fokalization to analyze how and in what way the biblical texts on Judas have been adapted to children in Barnens bibel. The study shows how Barnens bibel by changes in narration and fokalization develops a strong antipathy towards Judas, and that the character of Judas has a significantly more important and expanded role in Barnens bibel than he has in the biblical text
Helene Ehriander och Eva Söderberg (red.) Kulla-Gulla och alla de andra: Martha Sandwall-Bergström 100 år
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”När det tar slut och börjar om igen”: Ekokritiska perspektiv på Stefan Castas ungdomsdystopier
No full textThe Swedish author Stefan Casta has written several books for children and adults, thematically addressing nature and environment. This paper highlights and discusses ideological and aesthetical aspects in his recent novel, Den gröna cirkeln (2011) and its sequel, Under tiden (2012), from an ecocritical perspective. The novels combine environmental commitment with a dystopian story about four young people who survive a climate catastrophe but get lost in a world they no longer recognize and where ordinary logic does not seem to exist. The paper elucidates this process by a comparison with Buell’s (2001) concept of toxic discourse as there are several parallells, such as elements like a lost paradise, inescapable toxic, and the oppression of powerful societal interests, throughout the story. Simultaneously, ambivalence towards culture and civilization is expressed. Nature and culture become intertwined in a way that differs from the conventional dichotomy and this complexity is the supporting structure of the texts. The four teenagers, and even more so the following generation, become symbols of a new future, a pattern recognized from much dystopian as well as children’s fiction, where the weak and oppressed turn out to be the heroes. The optimistic and didactic ambition in this kind of dystopian stories is often aimed at creating an engagement for environmental issues and a sustainable future among young people. By placing the story in an imagined future as well as adding fantastic elements, Stefan Casta creates a kind of ”Verfremdungseffekt” on phenomena we often do not question in our lifestyle. This could be a liberating relativization to the young readers; the social and cultural drives that rule many of our life choices are not essential and can therefore always be reconsidered. Keywords: Ecocriticism, Stefan Casta, dystopian fiction, nature, environment, climate chang