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Dec 21, 2024
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CORE 002 SC - Investigating Humor in Literature and Mass Media
Some say that man is the animal who laughs. In other words, laughter is an essential part of human nature. Humor performs important social functions: for example, enforcing a society’s norms through ridicule of those who violate them, or offering a relatively harmless outlet for antisocial feelings that might threaten the social order. Many argue that the stereotypes associated with race, class, gender, sexuality, and physical and mental abnormality are essential to comedy. We will look at plays, movies, TV shows, standup comics, comic strips, and other modes of humor in light of theoretical work by Freud, Bergson, Bakhtin and others.
Instructor: D. Krauss, J. Peavoy.
Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
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