Author: Oyvind Torseter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592701933
Category : COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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In this graphic novel fairytale, our hero finds himself rescuing a princess and trying to outwit a troll to free his brothers from the troll's curse.
Author: John Lindow
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780232896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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This book is a history of trolls from their first appearances in folk tales - some people reported actual encounters with trolls, and others found such encounters plausible even if they were not sure - and follows a natural transition from folklore to trolls in other domains of popular culture. Indeed, trolls would not be interesting had they not made this jump, first to illustrations in the Nordic book market, then on to Scandinavian literature and drama, and far beyond. Since then they have never gone away, and in their various guises they continue to appeal to the imagination around the world. From the Vikings to the Moomins, the Brothers Grimm and the Three Billy Goats Gruff, this book explores the panoply of trolls and their history and their continuing presence today
Author: Whitney Phillips
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262028948
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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Internet trolls live to upset as many people as possible, using all the technical and psychological tools at their disposal. They gleefully whip the media into a frenzy over a fake teen drug crisis; they post offensive messages on Facebook memorial pages, traumatizing grief-stricken friends and family; they use unabashedly racist language and images. They take pleasure in ruining a complete stranger's day and find amusement in their victim's anguish. In short, trolling is the obstacle to a kinder, gentler Internet. To quote a famous Internet meme, trolling is why we can't have nice things online. Or at least that's what we have been led to believe. In this provocative book, Whitney Phillips argues that trolling, widely condemned as obscene and deviant, actually fits comfortably within the contemporary media landscape. Trolling may be obscene, but, Phillips argues, it isn't all that deviant. Trolls' actions are born of and fueled by culturally sanctioned impulses -- which are just as damaging as the trolls' most disruptive behaviors. Phillips describes, for example, the relationship between trolling and sensationalist corporate media -- pointing out that for trolls, exploitation is a leisure activity; for media, it's a business strategy. She shows how trolls, "the grimacing poster children for a socially networked world," align with social media. And she documents how trolls, in addition to parroting media tropes, also offer a grotesque pantomime of dominant cultural tropes, including gendered notions of dominance and success and an ideology of entitlement. We don't just have a trolling problem, Phillips argues; we have a culture problem. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things isn't only about trolls; it's about a culture in which trolls thrive.
Author: Johanna Sinisalo
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555847374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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This internationally acclaimed winner of the Finlandia Award is “a brilliant and dark parable about the fluid boundaries between human and animal” (The Boston Globe). Angel, a young photographer, comes home from a night of carousing to find a group of drunken teenagers in the courtyard of his apartment building, taunting a wounded, helpless young troll. He takes it in, not suspecting the dramatic consequences of this decision. What does one do with a troll in the city? As the troll’s presence influences Angel’s life in ways he could never have predicted, it becomes clear that the creature is the familiar of man’s most forbidden feelings. A novel of sparkling originality, Troll is a wry, beguiling story of nature and man’s relationship to wild things, and of the dark power of the wildness in ourselves. “[An] imaginative and engaging novel of urban fantasy . . . The stuff of ancient legend shadows with rather unnerving precision the course of unloosed postmodern desire.” —Chris Lehmann, The Washington Post Book World
Author: Steve Smallman
Publisher: Parragon
ISBN: 9781474810357
Category : Trolls
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The trolls are coming! When the trolls march from Troll Land into People World, everyone runs to hide. Can one little boy help the trolls and humans get along? Find out in this funny yet heart-warming story of fear, acceptance, and friendship.
Author: Michael Berenstain
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780394842950
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Examines the distinctive features, habits, and neighbors of the troll.
Author: Wesley Metcalfe
Publisher: Meze Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9781910863855
Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Amazing Troll-Man is a collection of hilarious exchanges between one man with a mission to make us laugh and unsuspecting Facebook users with petty complaints to air. Wesley Metcalfe, aka The Amazing Troll-Man, has a combined following of over 300k across social media thanks to his unique brand of comedy, spoofing companies' customer service accounts with side-splitting results!
Author: Julia Donaldson
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN: 9781509892426
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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The Troll longs for a juicy goat to eat - but he's stuck with boring old fish for supper. Bother! Meanwhile, Hank Chief and his pirate crew love fish, but without a decent recipe their slimy, soggy dinner is even worse. If only they could find their buried treasure and pay for a ship's cook . . . but it seems they've sailed to the wrong island. Again.Watch the fun unfold as two very different worlds collide in The Troll, a gloriously comic story from Julia Donaldson and David Roberts, the creators of the highly acclaimed Tyrannosaurus Drip.Enjoy the other stories by Julia Donaldson and David Roberts: Tyrannosaurus Drip, Jack and the Flumflum Tree, The Flying Bath and The Cook and the King.
Author: Lise Lunge-Larsen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816699773
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A collection of seven Norwegian folktales from various historical and international sources, all featuring trolls and showing how even small children can trick them. Includes an introduction explaining what trolls are and how they came to be. Full color. 11 x 8 1/2.
Author: MERETHE HAUE
Publisher: ROSE
ISBN: 8740408507
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The Story about Little Troll has 10 adventures - many questions to the child in order to get a little conversation during reading and maybe bedtime. Little Troll has been translated from danish to english by myself - therefore if any mistakes - I appologize.Have Fun.
