2/7

2/9

Benchley, "Why We Laugh -- or Do We?"

Frye, fragments from Anatomy of Criticism

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2/12

2/14

Sedaris, "I Like Guys"

Frazier, "Coyote v. Acme"
Bergson, opening pieces from "Laughter"

R

R
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2/21

2/23

Mitchell, "Modernist Freaks and Postmodern Geeks"

Klages, "What to Do With Helen Keller Jokes"
Thomson, "Feminist Theory, the Body, and the Disabled Figure"

R

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S

2/26

Freud, pieces from Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious

S

3/7

Barreca, "Introduction" to Last Laughs: Perspectives on Women and Comedy

S

3/19

O'Donnell, "Engendering Paranoia in Contemporary Narrative"

S

4/2

4/6

Ellison, "Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke"
Lott, "Blackface and Blackness: The Minstrel Show in American Culture"
Gates, from The Signifying Monkey

NYTimes Article on AIDS activism

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4/9

4/11

Coover, "The Cat in the Hat for President"

Kincaid, "Who is Relieved by the Idea of Comic Relief?"
Derrida, "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences"
Barthelme, "Not-Knowing"

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R
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4/30

5/2

Brunette, "The Three Stooges and the (Anti-)Narrative
of Violence: De(con)structive Comedy"

Paul, piece from Laughing Screaming

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