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Literary Genres
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The Comic Turn of the Mind: Aristophanes to Larry David |
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| Fall 2009 |
| Instructor: Kay Young |
| Meets on: MW 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM NH 1105 |
| Prerequisites: Writing 2, 50, or 109; English 10; or upper-division standing |
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| Satisfies a GE area G and a Writing requirement |
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May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 12 units provided the letter designations are different, but only 8 units may be applied to the English major.
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The art form that affirms survival, that makes happiness our business and hope not the gift of the lucky few but a turn of mind to be practiced and pursued is COMEDY. Comedy as a genre, comedy as a practice, comedy as a way of imagining will be the object and its frame of our study. Primary texts: The Women at the Thesmophoria; Some Like it
Hot; Old Cantakerous; Shakespeare in Love; Much Ado about Nothing;
Bringing Up Baby; Mamma Mia!; Nichols and May routines; Curb Your
Enthusiasm. Theory by: Aristotle, Eco, Freud, Bergson, Frye, Cavell, and Young. |
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