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Comedy EKSAMENSEMNE
This topic works with comedy as a genre focusing on theories about why we laugh and humorous devices and their effects.
We finish with a debate about the role of comedy in a culture of political correctness and easily outraged social media users.
Texts studied:
• Excerpts from the anthology "Serious Business - Satire, Wit and Humour from Shakespeare to Modernism" by Bo Høpfner Clausen et. al., 2011 with the three humour theories relief, Incongruity and superiority as well as a catalogue of humorous devices.
• Excerpt from "A Modest Proposal", Jonathan Swift, 1729, in the anthology "Serious Business - Satire, Wit and Humour from Shakespeare to Modernism" by Bo Høpfner Clausen et. al., 2011
• Film: "Pride and Prejudice", Joe Wright, 2005
• Excerpt from chapter 1 of "Pride and Prejudice", Jane Austen, 1813
• Excerpt from chapter 1 of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen, 2009
• "The Penis", Hanif Kureishi, 1999, in the anthology "Serious Business - Satire, Wit and Humour from Shakespeare to Modernism" by Bo Høpfner Clausen et. al., 2011
• Poems – individual choices by students
• "Modern Family, Starry Night", SE1, EP18, Jason Winer, 2010
• "Baking With Tourettes and My Brother", Jade O'Connell, 24/06/2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAFS5zgIEwk
• "Comedy in the age of outrage: When jokes go too far", Nicholas Barber, 04/08/2015, BBC
Supplementary texts and analysis models
• PPP: Poetry analysis (analysis model)
- The English Handbook Systime via netadgang
- Do it Write, Minlæring netadgang
- Minlæring netadgang
Pages read: app. 85
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