'Foreign Readers and the Imperishable Troll' : travelling to locations with connections to Tove Jansson and her works

Abstract

The following piece is based on the lectio praecursoria presented at the defense of the doctoral dissertation ‘Ideal Absence and Situated Readers: Experiencing Space Through Connection to Tove Jansson and her Works’ which was publicly discussed on November 3, 2021, at the University of Jyväskylä. The full version of the dissertation can be found at: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-8861-6.