Tracing the footsteps of dwarfs : images, concepts and representations in popular culture - Cubukcu, Feryal; Planka, Sabine (Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2016)
Introduction / Feryal Cubukcu and Sabine Planka -- Dwellers of the deep darkness : the transformation of dwarfs from mythology to children's fantasy literature / Rebekah May Degener -- The mad and the marvellous : the dwarf in 13th century French epic / Elisabeth Perfetto -- On women and dwarfs : material engagements in the brothers Grimm's Kinder- und Hausmärchen / Michelle Reyes -- Dwarves revisited in The Hobbit / Feryal Cubukcu -- Challenging traditions : Terry Pratchett's dwarfs / Catherine Magalhaes -- Rooted in the past, prepared for the future : dwarfs in Cornelia Funke's Mirrorworld-novels / Sabine Planka -- Stunted growth : dwarfs and the rejection of sexuality in the Artemis Fowl series / Kathryn Strong Hansen -- "Glimpses of the horror of normalcy : female dwarfs in literature / Julia Reiker -- "The dwarfs are back on the job" : exploring the dwarfy aspects of Harold Pinter's The Dwarfs / Dilek Inan -- Labour as a minor thing : on the iconography of dwarfs during the Industrial Age / Andreas Zeising.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Art, Modern; Dwarfs (Folklore) in art; Dwarfs (Folklore) in literature; Dwarfs (Folklore) in motion pictures; Literature -- History and criticism; Motion pictures -- History; kansansadut; kansantarinat; kirjallisuus; kuvataide; kääpiöt (taruolennot); populaarikulttuuri; sadut; skandinaavinen mytologia; folksagor; folksägner; litteratur; bildkonst; dvärgar; populärkultur; sagor; nordisk mytologi