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Paradox and Irony in Postmodern Picturebook - With Focus on Piggybook by Anthony Browne

Sunhee Ra 1

1성균관대학교

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ABSTRACT

Paradox and Irony in Postmodern Picturebook- With Focus on Piggybook by Anthony BrowneRa, SunheeThis study has examined, first of all, one of unique characteristics of picturebook,so-called dual audience. To be more exact, this paper aimed at exploring theflexibility of picturebooks that allows both of children and adult reader to enjoythem. For this, we analysed Piggybook by Anthony Browne that so far has beenread as a traditional picturebook with a single distinctive narrative rather thanas a postmodern picturebook with multiple narratives, centering on paradox andirony. The results of this study were as fallows: Piggybook has the potential of multiplereadings and meanings for a variety of audiences. Above all, this picturebookraises not only the question about the gender roles but also the one aboutrepresentation of reality through the language.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.