Humour in the Stories about Buster Oregon Mortensen
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https://doi.org/10.7557/13.6874Keywords:
children's literature, children's films, Danish humor, Bjarne ReuterAbstract
This article examines humor in three different versions of the story about Buster Oregon Mortensen, from 1979, 1984 and 2021. I perform a comparative analysis as a thematic close reading of the three works with a particular interest in humor in relation to power balance and themes perceived as difficult or taboo.
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