Humor in contemporary junior literature
Title:
Humor in contemporary junior literature
Author:
Cross, Julie, 1966-
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New York : Routledge, 2011.
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xvii, 246 p. : ill.
Series:
Children's literature and culture ; 73
Children's literature and culture ; 73.
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.
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