Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415882675 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 264 str.

Julie Cross;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humour in contemporary junior literature using the tools of literary criticism and humour theory. She investigates the dialectical paradoxes of humour and debunks the common belief in oppositional binaries of 'simple' versus 'complex' humor.

Spis treści

1. The "Tradition" of Humorous Transgression in Everyday-life Fiction 2. Funny Fantasy Fiction and Superiority Humour Theory: "ingenuous" anthropomorphised animal-child characters and "ingenious" child detectives 3."New Wave Nonsense" and the Tradition of Classic Nonsense 4. Gendered Humour: Clever Girls and "Clever" Boys 5. "Funny and Fearful": The Comic-Gothic and Incongruity 6. Conclusion

O autorze

Julie Cross has a PhD in Children’s Literature from Roehampton University, as well as an MA in Childhood Studies. She contributed to the Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature and has a chapter on humor included in The Gothic in Children’s Literature: Haunting the Borders (Routledge, 2007).