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Humor in contemporary junior literature / Julie Cross.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cross, Julie, 1966- author.
- Series:
- Children's literature and culture ; 73.
- Children's literature and culture ; 73
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humor in literature.
- Children's stories, English--History and criticism.
- Children's stories, English.
- Children's stories, American--History and criticism.
- Children's stories, American.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Wit and humor--Philosophy.
- Wit and humor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.) ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this new book, Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humor in contemporary junior literature, using the tools of literary criticism and humor theory. Cross investigates the dialectical paradoxes of humor and debunks the common belief in oppositional binaries of 'simple' versus 'complex' humor.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The tradition of humorous transgression in everyday-life fiction
- Superiority humor within fantasy: ingenuous anthropomorphized animal-child characters and ingenious child detectives
- "New wave nonsense" and the tradition of classic nonsense
- Gendered humor: clever girls and clever boys
- Funny and fearful: the comic gothic and incongruity
- Mr. Gum and the emergent paradigm.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-83986-0
- 1-136-83987-9
- 1-283-04126-X
- 9786613041265
- 0-203-83294-9
- 9780203832943
- OCLC:
- 704275461
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