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Funny Peculiar
Why are jokes funny? Why do we laugh? In Funny Peculiar, Mikita Brottman demurs from recent scholarship that takes laughter-- and the broader domain of humor and the comical--as a liberating social force and an endearing aspect of self-expression. For Brottman, there is nothing funny about laughter, which is less connected to mirth and feelings of good will than to a nexus of darker emotions: fear, aggression, shame, anxiety. Brottman rethinks not only the mechanisms of humor but also the relation of humor to the body and the senses. To this end, she provides an engrossing account of the life and work of Gershon Legman, exiled author, publisher, and sexologist, Alfred Kinsey's first bibliogr...
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.
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs
Collector of sexual folklore. Cataloger of erotica. Tireless social critic. Gershon Legman's singular, disreputable resume made him a counter-cultural touchstone during his forty-year exile in France. Despite his obscurity today, Legman’s prescient work and passion for the prurient laid the groundwork for our contemporary study of the forbidden.Susan G. Davis follows the life and times of the figure driven to share what he found in civilization's secret libraries. Self-taught and fiercely unaffiliated, Legman collected the risqué on street corners and in theaters and dug it out of little-known archives. If the sexual humor he uncovered often used laughter to disguise hostility and fear, he still believed it indispensable to the human experience. Davis reveals Legman in all his prickly, provocative complexity as an outrageous nonconformist thundering at a wrong-headed world while reveling in conflict, violating laws and boundaries with equal abandon, and pursuing love and improbable adventures. Through it all, he maintained a kaleidoscopic network of friends, fellow intellectuals, celebrity admirers, and like-minded obsessives.
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.
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."
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.
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The Limerick
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The Limerick
1700 limericks covering every bawdy topic from the 14th century to modern times.
