By focusing on some of the principal types of comic effect in texts produced for children--the ludicrous and the ridiculous; carnivalesque, iconoclasm and parody; zanyism; comic violence; transgressiveness--this unit examines how texts teach, reproduce and reflect notions of the comic, and construct social functions for the comic. -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Robyn McCallum, Dr Victoria Flanagan
Prerequisites: Admission to MA in (English Literature or Children's Literature or Creative Writing) or PGDipArts in Children's Literature or MEChild in Multiliteracies or PGDipEChild in Multiliteracies
