Metadata

Secondary Title(s): 

Tutorial, Fall 2004

School: 

Grinnell College

Language: 

English

Record Type: 

Syllabus

Identifier:

oai:dspace.lasrworks.org:10349/817

Creator: 

Lalonde, Gerald

Publisher: 

Grinnell College

Throughout the semester we will explore the meaning, philosophy, and psychology of the comic as we see it in Aristophanes and elsewhere - what makes something funny. Is all humor contextual or are some of its elements intrinsic or universal? What did the famous actor mean with his last words, "Dying is easy, comedy is hard"? We will discuss the philosophy of comedy and perhaps see how much we miss Aristotle's lost treatise on the subject.