LEADER 03088oam 2200733I 450 001 9910799993503321 005 20230725021000.0 010 $a1-136-83986-0 010 $a1-136-83987-9 010 $a1-283-04126-X 010 $a9786613041265 010 $a0-203-83294-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203832943 035 $a(CKB)2560000000061469 035 $a(EBL)668145 035 $a(OCoLC)704275461 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000470138 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11299176 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000470138 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10410529 035 $a(PQKB)11739316 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC668145 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL668145 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10452715 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL304126 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000061469 100 $a20180706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHumor in contemporary junior literature /$fJulie Cross 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.)$cill 225 1 $aChildren's literature and culture ;$v73 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-81650-7 311 $a0-415-88267-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aIn this new book, Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humor in contemporary junior literature, using the tools of literary criticism and humor theory. Cross investigates the dialectical paradoxes of humor and debunks the common belief in oppositional binaries of 'simple' versus 'complex' humor. 410 0$aChildren's literature and culture ;$v73. 606 $aHumor in literature 606 $aChildren's stories, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChildren's stories, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWit and humor$xPhilosophy 615 0$aHumor in literature. 615 0$aChildren's stories, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChildren's stories, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWit and humor$xPhilosophy. 676 $a823/.914099282 700 $aCross$b Julie$f1966-,$01587431 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910799993503321 996 $aHumor in contemporary junior literature$93875234 997 $aUNINA