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Author Cross, Julie, 1966-

Title Humor in contemporary junior literature [electronic resource] / Julie Cross.

Imprint New York : Routledge, 2011.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xvii, 246 p. : ill.
Series Children's literature and culture ; 73
Children's literature and culture ; 73.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Humor in literature.
Children's stories, English -- History and criticism.
Children's stories, American -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Wit and humor -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780415882675 (hbk.)
0203832949 (master e-book)
9780203832943 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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