List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Tove Jansson in Motion Chronology: Tove Jansson's Career A List of Tove Jansson's Books and Their English Translations PART 1: ART AND VISUAL NARRATION 2. Tove Jansson as Illustrator and Visual-Verbal Narrator:Interweaving Images and Words (Sirke Happonen) 3. Tove Jansson as Painter: Decades and Styles (Tuula Karjalainen) [Sidebar] On Tove Jansson's Public Paintings (Kukku Melkas, Sirke Happonen and Jussi Ojajärvi) 4.Tove Jansson as Comics Artist: From the Beginning to Moomin and Metanarration (Ralf Kauranen) [Sidebar] A 'New' Comic by Tove Jansson (Ralf Kauranen) PART 2: LITERARY TECHNIQUES AND TONES 5. Plotting in Tove Jansson's Moomin Suite (Agneta Rehal Johansson) [Sidebar] On Tove Jansson 's Revisions of the Moomin Books (Agneta Rehal Johansson) 6. Fantasy and Genre Diversity in Tove Jansson's Fiction (Jyrki Korpua) 7. The Subtle Irony of Tove Jansson's Narration (Maria Laakso) 8.
Technique of Wisdom in Tove Jansson's Fiction (Jarkko Lauri) 9. Narrative Reflexivity in Tove Jansson's Characterization (Kuisma Korhonen) [Sidebar] A Masterclass in Composition: Jansson's Short Story 'A Sense of Time' (Kasimir Sandbacka) PART 3: THEMATIC VIEWS AND CRITICAL CONTEXTS 10. Dramas of the Self in Tove Jansson's Fiction (Jussi Ojajärvi) 11. Queering Gender in Moominvalley (Mia Österlund) 12. The Politics of Personal Relations in Tove Jansson's Short Stories (Kukku Melkas) 13. Friendship, Love, and the Everyday in Tove Jansson's Later Novels (Hanna Lahdenperä) 14. The Modern Structure of Feeling in Tove Jansson's Short Stories (Kasimir Sandbacka) [Sidebar] On Class and Societal Undercurrents in Moominvalley (Jussi Ojajärvi) 15. The Cosmopolitan Worldview in Tove Jansson's Short Stories (Hanna-Leena Määttä) 16.
The Whimsical Ecology of Moominvalley (Maria Laakso) EPILOGUE: WANDERING ADAPTIONS 17. The Moomins and Adaptation (Kimmo Laine and Andrew Nestingen) [Sidebar] Tove Jansson and the Moomins in Japan (Eija Niskanen) [Sidebar] The Paternal Evolution of Moominpappa from Print to Screen (Aino A. T. Isojärvi) [Sidebar] Tove : The Biopic ( Kimmo Laine) Indexes.