Jon Scieszka, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

Artemis Papailia (University of Democritus)

Ed. by Dainy Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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First circulation or publication 1992

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United States (Publication/ performance)

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Children's Literature
- Picture Book

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Since its publication in 1992,

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith has challenged and redefined the conventions of children’s literature, asserting itself as a seminal text in the postmodern canon. This collection of parodic fair(l)y (stupid) tales reconfigures the conventional boundaries separating child and adult readerships, the didactic and the ludic, narrative convention and narrative disruption, which are boldly reimagined. Through its adept utilization of postmodernist techniques – including metafiction, intertextuality, parody and self-referentiality –

The Stinky Cheeseman and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

transcends the simplistic categorization of a “children’s book”, positioning itself as a cross-over picture book…

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Citation: Papailia, Artemis. "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 August 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41485, accessed 16 October 2024.]

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