Course: EAS 150 PREMODERN CHN HUMOR
Time/day: MW, 2:00-3:20pm
Room: 23022
Humor—communication that evokes amusement, laughter, or other kinds of positive emotional response in its audience—is universal, but its literary forms, the games it plays with language, and its functions—social, political, literary, psychological—differ dramatically between cultures. Through studying humor, analyzing the cultural, linguistic, and historical contexts upon which jokes are constructed, we can better understand the values, life experiences, and belief systems of a particular society.