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Rationale of the Dirty Joke
Why do people tell dirty jokes? And what is it about a joke's dirtiness that makes it funny? G. Legman was perhaps the foremost scholar of the dirty joke, and as legions of humor writers and comedians know, his Rationale of the Dirty Joke remains the most exhaustive and authoritative study of the subject. More than two thousand jokes and folktales are presented, covering such topics as The Female Fool, The Fortunate Fart, Mutual Mismatching, and The Sex Machine. These folk texts are authentically transcribed in their innocent and sometimes violent entirety. Legman studies each for its historical and socioanalytic significance, revealing what these jokes mean to the people who tell them and to the people who listen and laugh. Here -- back in print -- is the definitive text for comedians and humor writers, Freudian scholars and late night television enthusiasts. Rationale of the Dirty Joke will amuse you, offend you, challenge you, and disgust you, all while demonstrating the intelligence and hilarity of the dirty joke.
I Love You, I Really Do, Part One
These are the rich and savory, intimate personal memoirs of an autodidact scholar and essayist. Raised in a Jewish family in Scranton Pennsylvania, born in 1917. This first part, I Love You I really Do, takes us through the first eighteen years of G. Legman's life, with a wide assortment of characters, and fascinating comments on the 1920s and 1930s in the United States.
Mooncalf
G. Legman is the author of several books concerning erotic folklore and erotic biliography. He also contributed excellent prefaces to many books in these fields and related ones. Here is the second part of his massive, intimate and anecdotal autobiography, portraying the world of books and love-making in the New York of the late 1930s. Scowling much of the time, in an effort to appear older, young Legman is launched into the world of libraries, book stores and book sellers, and ghost writing. He is nineteen, and must earn a living as he can, meanwhile studying intensely all the rich fields of sexuality, erotica, and erotic folklore and bibliography. He lays the foundations for his future scholarship. We meet a wide panoply of strange characters, as well as the various young women who attracted him. This is the time of the Spanish Civil War, and World War II is looming. Personal history is recounted against the background of world history, as in Book One of Legman's Memoirs, "I Love You, I Really Do."
Musick to My Sorrow
A very savory account of life in the world of books in New York in the 1940s, therefore during the second World War. The many ways of making a living, for a bright person with only a high school diploma, including "war work," mingle with his usual book-related activities. Legman's love-life is complex, and intimately related, including his marriage to Beverley Keith. His reaction to the horror of war in general and to the Atomic Bomb in particular are weighed.
Oragenitalism
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World I Never Made
Writing pornography for a wealthy collector, printing and publishing books forbidden by the laws of censorship of the period (during World War II), young Legman also writes his first book, "Oragenitalism." This is published by Jake Brussel under a pseudonym, which Gershon didn't want to use at first. Most of the copies were seized in a raid, and to avoid going to jail, Legman must go on the lam. During the same period, he has his most torrid affair. He has encounters with Henry Miller, Ana�s Nin, Mahlon Blaine and many others. This is the dramatic and savory continuation of Legman's life in New York in the early 1940s, with much bibliographic history and lore.ISBN-13: 978-1548442439ISBN-10: 1548442437
The New Limerick
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The Guilt of the Templars
From Ivanhoe onward, the Order of the Knights Templar has been a favorite subject of novelists. Though it makes for great reading, little of what has been written is factual. The truth, however, is equally compelling as the fiction. In this book, one of his most elusive titles, G. Legman turned his far-ranging scholarship and acute analysis to the history and trial of the Knights Templar. Charged with heresy, sacrilege, blasphemy, and sexual perversion, the Templars were arrested, tried, and burned at the stake, bringing about their official end in 1312. Whether the suppression of the Order was justified and whether the Templars were guilty or innocent are questions that continue to fascinate anyone interested in the development of Western civilization. Drawing from the actual depositions and confessions of the Templars, and probing far deeper than just the religious, financial, or political issues, Legman offers a searching analysis of the effects of suppressing normal sexuality.
Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore: Roll me in your arms
Roll Me in Your Arms, Volume I includes 180 unexpurgated songs collected by Randolph, with tunes transcribed from the original singers.
