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Nah, cages don't do it for me.

It's an analysis of comedy through a philosophical/theoretical framework. Borat just happens to be one of the texts.
 
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Ah ok, is it like a prescribed text or did you choose it yourself?

Seems interesting to analyse something like Borat.
 
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slyhunter said:
Ah ok, is it like a prescribed text or did you choose it yourself?

Seems interesting to analyse something like Borat.
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Yeah, its actually a part of this sessions syllabus. Among more other traditional texts like Aristophanes, Moliere, Stoppard, Shakespeare etc.

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Borat is lame. Watched the first five minutes. Nothing funny about it.
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This is incorrect. I have analysed it, and it fits the criteria of being humorous.
 
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Theres a criteria for humour now? What has the world come to?
 
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Absolutezero said:
Yeah, its actually a part of this sessions syllabus. Among more other traditional texts like Aristophanes, Moliere, Stoppard, Shakespeare etc.



This is incorrect. I have analysed it, and it fits the criteria of being humorous.
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I would've chosen Borat too.
 
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annagurl said:
Theres a criteria for humour now? What has the world come to?
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Oh, please. Aristotle defined comedy in roughly 350BC. Since then there have numerous additions from Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Sigmund Freud, Soren Kierkegaard, just to name a few names.
 
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Absolutezero said:
Shouldn't be a problem. I'm one of the better essay writers in my year. And I've put a decent amount of work into it.
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That's good then. I'm actually interested to see how a uni student would analyse Borat lol.
 
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That's good then. I'm actually interested to see how a uni student would analyse Borat lol.
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I'm looking at it through the frameworks of comedy. So Incongruity Theory & Superiority Theory; essentially determining the better one of the two.

Though more complex than that.
 
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Absolutezero said:
I'm looking at it through the frameworks of comedy. So Incongruity Theory & Superiority Theory; essentially determining the better one of the two.

Though more complex than that.
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Woah, so complex to me already.

Do share with me when you're done. Curious for a read.
 
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