{"title":"Affirmation, Subversion, Playfulness—Comedy in German Children's Literature","authors":"Ute Dettmar","doi":"10.1353/chl.2022.0012","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay explores the varieties, functions, and dynamics of the comedy in German children's literature. Starting with two classics of German children's literature—Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter and Wilhelm Busch's Max und Moritz—it provides an overview of how texts and images deploy transgressive dynamics of the comic of deviation.","PeriodicalId":40504,"journal":{"name":"Childrens Literature","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Childrens Literature","FirstCategoryId":"1092","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2022.0012","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay explores the varieties, functions, and dynamics of the comedy in German children's literature. Starting with two classics of German children's literature—Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter and Wilhelm Busch's Max und Moritz—it provides an overview of how texts and images deploy transgressive dynamics of the comic of deviation.