Week # 7 - October 1, 2012

Can we all get along? Normality, violation and offensiveness.

Readings for Week #7:
Wasilewska, Ewa:
Section 4: Toward Offensiveness… Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones But Words Will Never Hurt Me.

Chapter 4: Toward Offensiveness… Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones But Words Will Never Hurt Me.
Wasilewska, Ewa (2012): Offensiveness and Humor.

Supplementary readings:
Berger, Arthur Asa: A Glossary of the Techniques of Humor: Morphology of the Joke Tale. In An Anatomy of Humor. Transaction Publishers. 1998. Pp. 15-55.