ENGL BC 3998y - Senior Seminars:Studies in Literature:Wit &Humor in the Renaissance SPRING '09

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Barnard College

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What was funny in the Renaissance We will look at various ways writers sought to be dryly witty, harshly satirical, subtly ironic, amusingly parodic, or broadly comic. Texts will include background materials by Lucian and other classical satirists and Renaissance works by Erasmus, Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, Louise Labé, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Tom Nashe, Sir John Harington, and Joseph Hall as well as extracts from jestbooks and several parodic almanacs. Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to seniors. Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.barnard.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 854-5262

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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