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F. Cubukcu / S. Planka: Introduction - R. May Degener: Dwellers of the Deep Darkness: the Transformation of Dwarfs from Mythology to Children´s Fantasy Literature - E. Perfetto: The Mad and the Marvellous: The Dwarf in 13th Century French Epic - M. Reyes: On Women and Dwarfs: Material Engagements in the Brothers Grimm´s Kinder- und Hausmärchen - F. Cubukcu: Dwarves revisited in The Hobbit - C. Magalhaes: Challenging traditions: Terry Pratchett´s dwarfs - S. Planka: Rooted in the past, prepared for the future: Dwarfs in Cornelia Funke´s Mirrorworld-novels - K. Strong Hansen: Stunted Growth: Dwarfs and the Rejection of Sexuality in the
Artemis Fowl Series - J. Reiker: "Glimpses of the Horror of Normalcy" - Female Dwarfs in Literature - D. Inan: ´The dwarfs are back on the job´: Exploring the Dwarfy Aspects of Harold Pinter´s The Dwarfs - A. Zeising: Labour as a Minor Thing: On the Iconography of Dwarfs during the Industrial Age

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Feryal Cubukcu got her M.A. on English Language Education and Ph. D. on Literary Theories. She has currently been working as a full professor at Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey. Dr. phil. Sabine Planka, Studium der Fächer Germanistik, Kunstgeschichte und Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft, Promotion 2008. Forschung und Lehre in den Bereichen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur/-film, Kunst- und Filmwissenschaft. Zudem tätig als Rezensentin für das Online-Portal www.kinderundjugendmedien.de und u.a. für die Zeitschriften Buch&Maus sowie MEDIENwissenschaft (Marburg: Schüren Verlag).

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