En selskapshund på Nordpolen: Relasjonen mellom hund og polarhelt i to mediefremstillinger fra 2022 av terrieren Titina

Theme: Dog A Companion Dog at the North Pole: The Relationship Between Dog and Polar Hero in Two Media Portrayals from 2022 of the Terrier Titina Titina was the Italian airship engineer Umberto Nobile’s terrier. He took her to the North Pole in the airship Norge in 1926 (together with Roald Amundsen) and on the airship Italia in 1928. There are several archive photographs of her. Titina is also the subject of a full-length animated family film, Titina (2022), directed by Kajsa Næss. The adaptation Titina (2022) is an illustrated non-fiction book for children, written by Lars Mæhle and illustrated by the film’s production designer Emma McCann. Here the two Titina versions are examined through adaptation theory (Bryant; Hutcheon). Inspired by Donna Haraway, the article discusses how the representations constitute the relationship between dog and human in each of these two media portrayals through five dependent research questions: How do the two representations place themselves in the polar literary tradition? How do the two 2022 representations relate to each other? How is humour acted out and for what purpose? What kind of perspective characterizes the presentations? How are dogs and humans constituted in relation to each other? The analysis is inspired by children’s literary humour theory (Cross) as well as point-of-view studies in film and children’s literature research (Janson; Lury; Rhedin; Ørjasæter). The article argues that when the companion dog becomes the polar hero’s companion, not only does the struggle to reach the North Pole appear meaningless, in line with the alternative polar literature. The closeness between dog and human is also emphasized and charged with meaning in a way that points forward to the cultural dominance of the family dog paradigm

Louise Almqvist, Störande litteraturundervisning: Litteratur, demokrati och värdegrundsarbete

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Statligt sanktionerad flerspråkighet för bebisar och deras vuxna: Litterär flerspråkighet i finländska babylådeböcker

 Theme: Multilingualism and Children's Literature. Ill. Henry Lyman Saÿen - Child Reading (1915–1918). Smithsonian American Art Museum, object number 1968.19.11. State-Sanctioned Multilingualism for Babies and Their Adults: Literary Multilingualism in Finnish Baby Box Books The baby books that, since the 1980s, are included in the Finnish state’s maternity packages distributed to every new-born child and their caregivers, are multilingual at heart. On pages of durable cardboard, a multilingual iconotext is realised as the two national languages Finnish and Swedish coexist with pictures on the spread. Lately, separate editions in the Sámi languages are also available. So far, there has been little literary research on these unique baby books. Hence, we seek to combine picturebook research with research in literary multilingualism to explore how these books handle multilingualism in relation to the materiality and multimodality of the picturebook medium. Our interest has been fuelled by the baby box books being a stately sanctioned and tailored book product that reaches about 30,000 Finnish families every year. In our article, we argue that a visual literary multilingualism is an essential trait of these books, and we suggest a typology for how multilingualism is realised within their multimodal format. Paying special attention to how the books deal with power hierarchies among the featured languages, we show that they employ a range of strategies to neutralise such hierarchies with greater or lesser success. Hence, we end up concluding that the books in the maternity package harbour a utopian and unproblematised view of multilingualism at odds with current societal debates

Sound Memes on BookTok: Understanding Affect in the Platformised Reviewing of Young Adult Books on TikTok

Theme: Children's Literature Reviews - How, Where and Who? Ill. Jenny Nyström from Barnkammarens bok, 1882. This article addresses the changing landscape of book reviewing within the field of young adult (YA) literature, particularly in the context of emerging and increasingly ubiquitous digital platforms and platformisation. Starting from the recognition that BookTok – the popular book-related subculture of the even more popular digital video-sharing platform TikTok – is becoming one of the most significant forces within the realm of YA literature at the levels of marketing, sale, and readership, we argue that there is a need to investigate how the affordances of TikTok as a platform are transforming YA literature reviews, particularly given the emerging popularity of YA literature reviews by young people and for young people on TikTok. We argue that hitherto unrecognised and seemingly unimportant modes of meaning-making have become central to the reviewing of YA literature on BookTok, focusing specifically on the way sound is used on and afforded by the platform. Building on the evolving literature on internet memes and specifically sound memes, as well as on Swedish-Finnish scholar Maarit Jaakkola’s work exploring how digital platforms are challenging monopolies which have traditionally characterised literary criticism, this article undertakes an analysis of three BookTok videos and the sounds they employ. The aim in this is to establish how the mimetic and affective properties of sound allows young users to express highly nuanced feelings relating to the books they review, ultimately pushing at the boundaries of what constitute valid and valuable practices for reviewing YA literature

Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska, Philosophical and Translatological Wanderings in Moominvalley

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Introduktion: Flerspråkighet och barnlitteratur – nya perspektiv

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Nina Goga, Lykke Guanio-Uluru och Beatrice G. Reed, Planter i skandinavisk barne- og ungdomslitteratur: Bildebøker, klimafiksjon og sakprosa

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”Hunder er det beste jeg vet!”: Om barne- og hunderelasjoner i Tor Åge Bringsværds Karsten og Petra-bøker

Theme: Dog ”The things I like the most are dogs!”: Exploring Child and Dog Interactions in Tor Åge Bringsværd’s Books about Karsten and Petra This article explores the relationship between children and dogs in the Norwegian picturebooks about Karsten and Petra, written by Tor Åge Bringsværd. The article aims to answer the following questions: How is the relationship between children and dogs depicted in the picturebooks’ constructions of childhood? How do these books explore perspectives on the relationship between humans and nature? The books’ iconotext primarily depicts a balanced relationship between children and dogs, with the dog taking on the role of the child’s companion. The study shows that these books align with a longer tradition of literature focused on the competent child, who naturally develops a positive relationship with nature. However, the picturebooks about Karsten and Petra draw attention to the dog’s dual nature in literature – both as a domesticated being and as an animal with its instinctual, wild sides. Additionally, the books convey an awareness of the potential of children’s literature to remind us of nature’s presence in human life and the importance of respecting it

Raphaela Heil, Document Image Processing for Handwritten Text Recognition: Deep Learning-based Transliteration of Astrid Lindgren’s Stenographic Manuscripts

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Introduction: Motherhood and Mothering

Introduction: Motherhood and Motherin