Guia docente 2011_12 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contidos

Tema	Subtema
1. An introduction to humour and comedy.	1.1. Antiquity. 1.2. The Middle Ages. 1.3. The Renaissance.
2. Humour and comedy in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.	2.1. From Hobbes’s “sudden glory” of superiority to Kant’s bursting of “the bubble of our expectation.” 2.2. Reading and analysis of the use of humour in William Wycherley’s The Country Wife and Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer.
3. Humour in the Late Modern Period.	3.1. Theories of Humour in the Nineteenth Century. 3.2. Theories of Humour in the Twentieth Century.
4. Humour theory as applied to literature.	4.1. Reading and analysis of the use of humour in Tom Sharpe's Wilt.