LS 680 - Critical Methodologies: Humor Studies

(3.00 cr.)

This course, of potential interest to anyone who laughs, proposes that humor serves as one of the best ways to understand literature and culture. From Archilochus to Rushdie, parody and the playful are productive: they illuminate serious forms, as well as generating their own discourse and conventions. Writers use humor to reveal the local and the universal, to speak truth in multiple voices, to refashion art and expectation.