Essays about: "Pippi Longstocking"

Found 5 essays containing the words Pippi Longstocking.

  1. 1. How Can We Understand Children’s Literature through Children’s Psychology? : An Analysis of Pippi Longstocking and The Little Girl at the Window according to Jean Piaget’s pedagogy

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för språk och kultur; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Qing Qi; [2014]
    Keywords : Children’s psychology; Piaget; children’s drawing; children’s thinking and educational method.;

    Abstract : Nowadays, an increasing amount of psychologists and educators find that literature designed for children plays a very important role in a child’s upbringing. A good children’s book not only influences a child’s psychological development, but is also a useful tool for scholars to research children’s psychology, which reflects children’s thinking regarding certain aspects. READ MORE

  3. 2. Pippi Longstocking: Differences in the translations from Swedish to English, from 1950 and 2007 : A structural comparison of two different translations of Pippi Longstocking from Swedish to English

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad

    Author : Mathilda Haraldsson; [2014]
    Keywords : Pippi Longstocking; Astrid Lindgren; structural shifts; translation; linguistics; modulation; Tiina Nunnally; Florence Lamborn; Catford; Vinay Darbelnet;

    Abstract : This study focuses on comparing two different versions of Pippi Longstocking translated into English on a structural level. With the help of the research of the known linguistics John Catford and Paul Vinay & Jean-Louis Darbelnet, we compare how the two different translators, Tiina Nunnally (2007) and Florence Lamborn (1950) have translated the same book. READ MORE

  4. 3. "Somebody'd get a fat lip if they called me Pippi Longstocking": Gender, Sex and Red Hair in Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Elise Riedlinger; [2011]
    Keywords : gender; red hair; sexuality; Stieg Larsson; Pippi Longstocking; Astrid Lindgren; Lisbeth Salander; redheads; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson depicts a fiery, independent and highly sexual protagonist in the character of Lisbeth Salander. While many readers fail to notice the subtle reference to Lisbeth’s natural red hair, this quality, along with Larsson’s admittance that his inspiration originated from Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking, situates Lisbeth in a long tradition of redheaded women who have been stereotyped as highly intelligent, strong, adventurous and passionate. READ MORE

  5. 4. Pippi Goes Abroad : A comparative study of the British and American translations of neologisms, nonce words and proper nouns in Pippi Longstocking

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Madelene Moats; [2009]
    Keywords : Astrid Lindgren; interference; literary translation; neologism; nonce word; proper noun; Pippi Longstocking; source text; target text; translation procedures;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to analyze two literary translations of Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Långstrump (Lindgren, 1945) from Swedish into English.  The study compares the British and the American English translations of neologisms, nonce words and proper nouns. READ MORE

  6. 5. On the rendering of Swedish cultural features in the translation of Pippi in the South Seas

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Katarina Hjortsäter; [1995]
    Keywords : English language 20th century; translations; children s literature; cultural features; Pippi Longstocking; Engelska språket 1900-talet; Översättning Barnlitteratur; Pippi Långstrump i Söderhavet;

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