03088oam 2200733I 450 991079185460332120230725021000.01-136-83986-01-136-83987-91-283-04126-X97866130412650-203-83294-910.4324/9780203832943 (CKB)2560000000061469(EBL)668145(OCoLC)704275461(SSID)ssj0000470138(PQKBManifestationID)11299176(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000470138(PQKBWorkID)10410529(PQKB)11739316(MiAaPQ)EBC668145(Au-PeEL)EBL668145(CaPaEBR)ebr10452715(CaONFJC)MIL304126(EXLCZ)99256000000006146920180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHumor in contemporary junior literature /Julie CrossNew York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (265 p.)illChildren's literature and culture ;73Description based upon print version of record.1-138-81650-7 0-415-88267-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Children's literature and culture ;73.Humor in literatureChildren's stories, EnglishHistory and criticismChildren's stories, AmericanHistory and criticismEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismWit and humorPhilosophyHumor in literature.Children's stories, EnglishHistory and criticism.Children's stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Wit and humorPhilosophy.823/.914099282Cross Julie1966-,1546884MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791854603321Humor in contemporary junior literature3802757UNINA