Course details

Name: ENLT - 381

Title: THE COMIC AND SATIRIC TRADITION

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2013

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will survey a broad variety of comic and satiric forms and genres—including drama, poetry, and novels—from Aristophanes’s Lysistrata to Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange and Monty Python's Life of Brian.

Works read MAY include Aristophanes, Lysistrata; Ben Jonson, Volpone; Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock; Swift, Gulliver’s Travels; Voltaire, Candide; Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice; Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn; Aldous Huxley, Brave New World; George Schuyler, Black No More; Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt; Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange.

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 11:30 am To 12:45 pm

Graduation requirements:

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• Pre-1800 (1b)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Pre-1800 British (TE 1b)

Teaching Faculty: Greenberg Jonathan (greenbergj)

Is course canceled: No