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21L.421 Comedy, Spring 2001

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Tapscott, Stephen, 1948-
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Comedy
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Surveys a range of comic texts from different media, the cultures that produced them, and various theories of comedy. Authors and directors studied may include Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Molière, Austen, and Chaplin. From the course home page: Course Description This class surveys a range of comic texts from different media, the cultures that produced them, and various theories of comedy. Authors and directors studied may include Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Moliere, Austen, Chaplin. This subject laughs and then wonders how and why and what's so funny. Sometimes it laughs out loud. Sometimes it spills into satire (and asks, what's the difference?). Sometimes it doesn't laugh at all, but some resolution seems affirmative or structurally functional, in some satisfying way (by what categoriy is Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet a "comedy"? how can Dante call his vision of an organized universe a "Comedy"?). We read jokes, literary texts, tales, satirical paintings, and films, and we address a few theories about how comedy works (does it affirm? does it critique? does it disrupt? does it tip the categories upside-down? does it release energy? does it cause trouble? how is it ithat so many different effects and emotions are called "comic"?). Is comedy a way of thinking, or a literary genre? Why is it that comedy raises so many questions; is that questioning energy where laugher comes from, anyway?
Date issued
2001-06
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45538
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Literature Section
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21L.421-Spring2001
local: 21L.421
local: IMSCP-MD5-6571e0b98a000d0f7b6cc670201b4980
Keywords
Comedy, Drama, Writing, Shakespeare, Twain, Wilde, Brecht, Nabokov, Heller, Chaucer, Milton, Allegory, Satire, comic, funny, jokes, literature, tales, satirical paintnigs, films, comedies, Comedy

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