Contenidos teóricos y prácticos de la asignatura
1. Humour as a multicultural phenomenon.
2. Tragedy versus comedy.
3. Humour as an agent of transcendence.
4. Humour as a subversive force.
5. Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes: the tragicomic memoir of an Irish childhood.
6. Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry: the celebration of the comic hero.
7. Jewish humour: laughter through tears.
8. Howard Jacobson's Kalooki Nights: can the Holocaust be funny?
2. Tragedy versus comedy.
3. Humour as an agent of transcendence.
4. Humour as a subversive force.
5. Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes: the tragicomic memoir of an Irish childhood.
6. Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry: the celebration of the comic hero.
7. Jewish humour: laughter through tears.
8. Howard Jacobson's Kalooki Nights: can the Holocaust be funny?