BUI301F2022/Humor Theory
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Theories of humor
- Superiority theories
- Relief or release theories
- Incongruity theories
Texts & resources
- Noël Carroll, Humour: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
- Our Hospitality (pp. 12-13, 17)
- Chicken Run (p. 19)
- Curb Your Enthusiasm (pp. 25-26)
- The Three Stooges (p. 30)
- South Park (p. 33)
- Bringing Up Baby (p. 23) too brief?
- Krazy Kat ("mouse attacks a dog" 23) and Far Side (97, not in reading)
- Modern Family