Course details

Name: ENLT - 381

Title: THE COMIC AND SATIRIC TRADITION

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2015

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will survey a broad variety of comic and satiric forms and genres—including drama, poetry, and novels—from the Old Comedy of ancient Athens to the Charlie Hebdo cartoons that prompted the recent murders of cartoonists and columnists in Paris.

Works read MAY include Aristophanes, Lysistrata; Juvenal, Satires; Petronius, Satyricon; Ben Jonson, Volpone; poetry by Rochester, Pope, Byron; Voltaire, Candide; Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice; Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn; George Schuyler, Black No More; Ishmael Reed, Mumbo-Jumbo; Richard Pryor, Live on the Sunset Strip.

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday,Thursday From 10:00 am To 11:15 am

Graduation requirements:

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• Pre-1800 (1b)
• International Issues (3a)
• Ethnic Studies (3b)
• Pre-1800 British (TE 1b)

Teaching Faculty: Greenberg Jonathan (greenbergj)

Is course canceled: No