Empowering transformations : Mrs Pepperpot revisited / edited by Maria Lassén-Seger and Anne Skaret.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lassén-Seger, Maria, editor.

Skaret, Anne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Conduct of life.

Women.

Children's literature, Norwegian--History and criticism.

Children's literature, Norwegian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; FOREWORD; CHAPTER ONE; PART I; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART III; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 16, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6002-6

OCLC:

879347492