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HH Readings - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Culler (1981) includes reader
    - - power dynamic - adults choose what children consume - 'powerless recipients'
      - adults write for children often rely on intertextuality - what they read as kids
        
        Pg 3
        
        kids 'intersubjective knowledge cannot be assured'
        
        parody
        
        texts of imitation which seek to parody, pastiche, paraphrase, ‘translate’ or supplant the original, which seek to liberate their readers from an over-invested admiration in great writers of the past, and which often function as the pre-text of the original for later readers (Worton and Still 1990: 7)
        
        Literature for children has to tread a careful path between a need to be sufficiently overreferential in its intertextual gap-filling so as not to lose its readers, and the need to leave enough intertextual space and to be sufficiently stylistically challenging to allow readers free intertextual interplay It is on the one hand formally conservative, yet it is charged with the awesome responsibility of initiating young readers into the dominant literary, linguistic and cultural codes of the home culture. (p 9-10)
  - - - 'the texts of children's literature are exciting sites on which to mobilise a child-reader subjectivity that is intertextually aware and literarily competent'
- - - - parody as a kinf of ''high' humour' (3)
        
        compounding both shows kids complex understandng of comedy
        
        both can work together
        
        ''high' often viewed as for adults
    - - comedy's functions of 'resistance and control' (Bergson, 1911; Powell and Paton. 1988; etc)
        
        many discussions about kids' humour of carnival 9subverting power)
        
        Stepehens (1992) - "playfulness which situates itself in positions of non-conformity'
        
        also - texts of "value-inversion"
      - Gutwirth - bring down high, bting up low
    - - Relief
        
        deal w emotions
      - Incongruity and resolution
        
        find resolution --> control?
      - superiority
        
        othering & self-validating
      - children's humour
        
        children now have benefit thru internet etc to 'adult' topics (10)
        
        humour --> open up emotion and intelligence (10)
        
        people assume some betters than others
        
        many thing exaggerated character is 'lower' lol (11)
        
        but elevate satire as in intellectual realm
        
        humour --> break rules and test boundaries (12)
        
        serious lack of consideration for children's comedy (14)
        
        new challenging content correlates w increase in children's TV, and intro of curriculum in 1988 (15)
        
        change in societal views of child and child's mind
        
        cnew compound humour
        
        kids as 'discursively competant' (Pue, 2006) (16)
        
        kids as social agents
        
        source of humourous stimulus (implied author)
        
        recipient (implied reader) - ALSO active in meaning construction AND more serious issues discussed *
        
        James and Prout -- kids bc active in social construction of own lives (16)
        
        empowering children & children's rights
    - - psychological release and humour at expense of authority
      - deliberately transgressive character
        
        someone refuses to conform to norms e.g. horrid henry
      - threat of the strange (nonsense)
      - comic grotesque
        
        toilet humour e.g. captain underpants
      - comic irony
        
        complex strategies like PARODY
        
        could read more in gothic chapter
        
        NEW form - often also includes thigs like black humour and scatological elements
        
        may give kids a 'transformative power [to] build intellectual platforms from which to build new thinking' (Reynolds, 2007) (24)
      - not fixed categories and overlap
    - - type of humour (relief etc)
      - stylistic form e.g. parody
      - humourous properties
        
        humour at misadventure; wordplay and puns; slapstick; comedy of the grotesque; etc
      - sub-divisions
        
        content (subject)
        
        form (structure)
        
        context (extra-literary social context)
        
        function (effect and author's intention)