Smoking in Moominvalley – or, Why Moominpappa and Snufkin Have Pipes

• Authors: Mika Hallila

Title variants

PL

Smoking in Moominvalley – or, Why Moominpappa and Snufkin Have Pipes

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article analyzes Tove Jansson’s Moomin novels in terms of the representations of pipe smoking. The analysis focuses on three characters from the novels: Moominpappa, Snufkin, and the Joxter. The theoretic framework of the analysis is called “the semiotics of tobacco”. In this context, tobacco is regarded as a sign of the cultural sign-system, and thus what is exactly analyzed are the cultural meanings of tobacco in the Moomin novels.

PL

The article analyzes Tove Jansson’s Moomin novels in terms of the representations of pipe smoking. The analysis focuses on three characters from the novels: Moominpappa, Snufkin, and the Joxter. The theoretic framework of the analysis is called “the semiotics of tobacco”. In this context, tobacco is regarded as a sign of the cultural sign-system, and thus what is exactly analyzed are the cultural meanings of tobacco in the Moomin novels.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 22
• Pages: 18-29

Dates

published

2017-03-15

Contributors

author

Mika Hallila

• Uniwersytet Warszawski Katedra Hungarystyki ul. Dobra 55 00-312 Warszawa Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/fsp-2017-0002