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Thursday, March 19, 2020
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Presenting a Limited Edition SDSU Press Book, Laughing Matters: Conversations on Humor from Aldama and Stavans
Laughing Matters: Conversations on Humor (Special Limited-Edition Paperback)
Do you dig humor, comedy, critical theory, literary criticism, philosophy, television, and mass media studies all wrapped up together? Then LAUGHING MATTERS by Latino scholar/writers/artists ILAN STAVANS and FREDERICK ALDAMA is the book for you!
Description
In this kinetic tête-à-tête, Aldama and Stavans' conversation weaves
effortlessly from the great thinkers on laughter to today's
neurobiological insights to offer witty, wide-ranging, and incisive
insights into our planet's great creations," says Peter McGraw, director
of The Humor Research Lab. Laughing Matters explores the nature of laughter and humor, questioning
and expounding on Western European and Latin American literary works
that build humor into their pages. In a decidedly erudite manner they take us on a journey through
philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kierkegaard,
Nietzsche, and Bergson as well as literary geniuses such as Cervantes,
Shakespeare, and Borges," affirms María Herrera-Sobek,
About the Author's


llan Stavans has taught courses on a wide array of topics such as Spanglish, Jorge Luis Borges, Shakespeare in prison, modern American poetry, Latin music, Don Quixote, Gabriel García Márquez, Modernismo, popular culture in Hispanic America, world Jewish writers, the cultural history of the Spanish language, Pablo Neruda, the history of the Spanish language, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Yiddish literature, Jewish-Hispanic relations, cinema, Latin American art, and U.S.-Latino culture.
Book Reviews

"Our authors scour the
world of humor from stand-up Jewish comedians to
classic writers such as Cervantes and Rabelais to
those, like Freud and Bergson. The conversational
format of this book allows its authors a freedom
to range that would be impossible in a more
conventional mode of discourse."

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