Course details

Name: ENLT - 381

Title: COMIC AND SATIRIC TRADITION

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2017

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. The focus will be on the late 17th and early 18th centuries, with some examples of ancient and contemporary satire.

Works read MAY include Aristophanes, Lysistrata; Juvenal, Satires; Ben Jonson, Volpone; poetry by Rochester, Pope, Montagu; Swift, Gulliver’s Travels; Collier, An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting; Voltaire, Candide; Fielding, Jonathan Wild; Austen, Pride and Prejudice; Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia; Beatty, The Sellout.

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 8:30 am To 9:45 am

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Pre-1800 (1b)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Class Issues (3d)
• Pre-1800 British (TE 1b)

Teaching Faculty: Greenberg Jonathan (greenbergj)

Is course canceled: No