Humor in contemporary junior literature / Julie Cross.
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| Superior document: | Children's literature and culture ; 73 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Children's literature and culture ;
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 246 p. :; ill. |
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Table of 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.