Smoking in Moominvalley – or, Why Moominpappa and Snufkin Have Pipes
Smoking in Moominvalley – or, Why Moominpappa and Snufkin Have Pipes
Author(s): Mika HallilaSubject(s): Other Language Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Summary/Abstract: 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.
Journal: Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 22
- Page Range: 18-29
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English