The Great American Sense of Humor
Brom Weber
Sunday, 20 Jan 1980 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Brom Weber is a Professor of American Literature at the University of California, Davis. Professor Weber received his B.S. from City College of New York and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is editor of An Anthology of American Humor and the author of Sense and Sensibility in Twentieth-Century Writing. A leading authority on American humor, he is past president of the American Humor Studies Association.Part of the National Affairs Series: Humor in America.
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