| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 246 pages) |
| Series |
Children's literature and culture ; [73] |
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Children's literature and culture ; 73.
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| 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 |
| 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. The varied combinations of so-called high and low forms of humor within junior texts for young readers, who are at such a crucial stage of their reading and social development, provide a valuable commentary upon the culture and values of contemporary western society, making the book of consi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Humor in literature.
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Children's stories, English -- History and criticism
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Children's stories, American -- History and criticism
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Wit and humor -- Philosophy
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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American fiction
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Children's stories, American
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Children's stories, English
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English fiction
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Humor in literature
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Wit and humor -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010029262 |
| ISBN |
9780203832943 |
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0203832949 |
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128304126X |
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9781283041263 |
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9781136839870 |
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1136839879 |
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9781136839825 |
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1136839828 |
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9781136839863 |
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1136839860 |
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9781138816503 |
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1138816507 |
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