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1 online resource |
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1 Introduction: Mrs Pepperpot revisited / Maria Lassén-Seger and Anne Skaret -- 2 The Wisdom of old Mrs Pepperpot: a cognitive approach / Maria Nikolajeva -- 3 Miniature metamorphosis: Mrs Pepperpot empowered / Maria Lassén-Seger -- 4 Queering Mrs Pepperpot: challenging the normative life script through queer aging / Mia Österlund -- 5 Down to earth: natur in the Mrs Pepperpot stories / Svein Slettan -- 6 Mrs Pepperpot and modern technology: empowerment and techno-poetics in "Mrs Pepperpot's outing" / Hans Kristian Rustad -- 7 The underdog's perspective: childhood in Alf Prøysen's adult prose work / Bjørn Ivar Fyksen -- 8 Illustrating Mrs Pepperpot / Maria Lassén-Seger and Anna Skaret -- 9 Literary sculptures: Mrs Pepperpot across media / Anne Skaret -- 10 Transforming text, tradition and TV: the magic of Prøysen's Mrs Pepperpot / Björn Sundmark -- 11 Mrs Pepperpot rules Britannia: the British editions / Charlotte Berry |
| Summary |
Norwegian author Alf Prøysen's feisty little old Mrs Pepperpot appeared for the first time in print in 1955. Translated into well over twenty languages, the now classic Mrs Pepperpot stories have, so far, received surprisingly little critical attention. Empowering Transformations: Mrs Pepperpot Revisited fills that long over-due gap by providing a range of essays written by experts in the field. The volume explores Prøysen's heroine in dialogue with recent theorising in order to broaden and d .. |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Pepperpot, Mrs. (Fictitious character)
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Children's literature, Norwegian -- History and criticism
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Children's & teenage literature studies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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Children's literature, Norwegian
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Pepperpot, Mrs. (Fictitious character)
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lassén-Seger, Maria, editor.
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Skaret, Anne, 1974- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781443860024 |
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1443860026 |
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1443856991 |
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9781443856997 |
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