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Gershon legman project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. But it is impossible to doubt his exacting standards of scholarship after reading the horn book. Legman 1 edition first published in 1964 download daisy. Studies in erotic folklore and bibliography university books, 1964 a selection of legmans papers reflecting years of exploration in the restricted collections of research libraries. The book s curious title comes from a quote allegedly blurted out, at age 23, by gershon legman, a kinsey bibliographer and sometime lover of anais nin. Gershon legman, selftaught scholar of dirty jokes and bawdy. First up to speak was a wildhaired, walrusmustachioed literary tramp and eccentric named george alexander called gershon legman 191799, a social and cultural critic with a freudian viewpoint. Despite his obscurity today, legman \s prescient work and passion for the prurient laid the groundwork for our contemporary study of the forbidden. Oragenitalism is a book by the american folklorist gershon legman, published by the julian press in 1969. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.

Gershon legman your amazon recommendations jahsonic early adopter products. Gershon legmans bestknown work was a twovolume study of erotic humour, the rationale of the dirty joke, published in 1968, and no laughing matter, which followed in 1975. Man thought he was smarter because he built many things and did much work, while the dolphins just played all day. Gershon legman \s singular, disreputable resume made him a countercultural touchstone during his fortyyear exile in france. Doing it takes a village at the time, the folksong revival was taking hold and questions also arose about the authenticity of folk songs on radio airwaves and commercially produced concert.

Studies in erotic folklore and bibliography and oragenitalism, on oral sex. The tune usually used especially for the chorus is in and out the windows. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Gershon legman, anthologist of erotic humor, is dead at 81 the. Books were legmans main decor, thousands of them covering every foot of space, some even making up the furniture. Good ship venus, also known as friggin in the riggin, is a bawdy drinking song devised to shock with ever increasingly lewd and debauched sexual descriptions of the eponymous ships loosemoraled crew. Gender, urban culture, and the making of the gay male world, 18901940, legman was a homosexual and is credited with. Gershon legman, anthologist of erotic humor, is dead at 81. Legman to his readers, was a collector of the erotic, the obscene, and the banned. Studies in erotic folklore and bibliography university books, page 163 whether the manuscripts were original or simply copies, the last half of the statement is certainly true, since this edition first prints a version of.

The secret things everyone did or thought about doing, the desires people were afraid to acknowledge, legman was compelled to document and write about profusely. An excerpt from extraordinary adventures of mullah nasruddin. Outraged, legman moved to france where he later published a number of scholarly books, among which were the horn book. Gershon legman died february 23, 1999 in his adopted home country, france, after several years of debility, and a week after suffering a massive stroke. But the book will remain impervious in all its pocked dignity, authenticity and embattled romanticism. Gershon legman 19171999 was an american cultural critic and folklorist, best known for his books the rationale of the dirty joke 1968 and the horn book. The horn book is a kind of apologia of erotica with longish articles on erotic collections and folklore, including bawdy ballads, the limerick, and the formation of a motif index for this type of work. A combination of hornbook and typewriter researchgate. Gershon legman the art and popular culture encyclopedia. Gershon legman was an american cultural critic and folklorist. Born in 1917 in scranton, pennsylvania, legman was the son of emil and julia friedman legman, both of hungarianjewish descent. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive. A devotee of paperfolding, he put together a bibliography on. Gershon legman books list of books by author gershon legman.

Gershon legmans singular, disreputable resume made him a countercultural touc. However, brottman 710 et passim holds that he was exclusively heterosexual, accounting for both the abandonment of his proposed volume on fellatio as well as, possibly and in some measure, for his contempt for alfred. Legman definition of legman by the free dictionary. While researching the topic of taboo humor i discovered, in the horn book by folklore and humor scholar gershon legman, his stark condemnation of folk story and joke collections with all the bawdy or objectionable material expunged, which he calls fakelore. Gershon legman, author of the limerick, on librarything. There is an addition an unsigned, singlecolumn magazine clipping regarding legmans the horn book, a prospectus, addressed from legmans ny home, for king turd, a translation he did with his wife of alfred jarrys ubu plays, and a clipping from what appears to be a mimeographed booksellers catalogue offering for sale a copy of two essays on.

Archaic spelling of penultimate 1942, tromso museums skrifter universitetsforlaget, volume 3, page 454 pereiopods 5 7 slender, with slender, drepaniform fingers, and with the p. Gender, urban culture, and the making of the gay male world, 18901940 1994, legman was a homosexual. Studies in erotic folklore and bibliography 0224618660 book. Despite his obscurity today, legmans prescient work and passion for the prurient laid the groundwork for our contemporary study of the forbidden. The author claimed that it was the earliest book of its kind on the subject, and for a long time the only one.

Studies in erotic folklore and bibliography was a collection of assorted writings from the 1950s and 1960s. Mar 14, 1999 but the book will remain impervious in all its pocked dignity, authenticity and embattled romanticism. Among legman s other books and pamphlets that broke new ground in anthropology studies were on the cause of homosexuality 1950, the limerick 1953, the horn book 1964, the guild of the. The limerick by gershon legman 19910911 by gershon legman jan 1 1774. Studies in erotic folklore and bibliography and no laughing matter. Gershon legman s singular, disreputable resume made him a countercultural touchstone during his fortyyear exile in france.

The full set of neurotica was reprinted in one volume by hacker art books, new york, in 1963. Although superheroes were not legmans main concern, that being sadism in literature, lurid paperbacks, crime and jungle comics as a substitute for normal sex. Gershon legmans singular, disreputable resume made him a countercultural touchstone during his fortyyear exile in. Davis follows the life and times of the figure driven to share.

Publication date 1969 topics limerick collection opensource language english. An assistant who performs tasks such as gathering information or running errands, especially outside the workplace. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Gershon wrote that his grandfather yomtov legman was a butcher from a long line of butchers, who were also horse traders selling to the various landowners and small nobility for centuries. Legman s sexuality according to george chauncey s book gay new york. As will become clear, gershon had reason to tell people his father had been a butcher, but emil failed in his ambition to be a kosher butcher. Legmans sexuality according to george chauncey s book gay new york. Not to be confused with an erotic novel of incest, forbidden fruit and more forbidden fruit. There is an addition an unsigned, singlecolumn magazine clipping regarding legman s the horn book, a prospectus, addressed from legman s ny home, for king turd, a translation he did with his wife of alfred jarrys ubu plays, and a clipping from what appears to be a mimeographed booksellers catalogue offering for sale a copy of two essays on. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit. G legmans the limerick a collection of 1700 limericks addeddate 20161217 00. Horn book hardcover july 23 1970 by gershon legman author see all 4 formats and editions hide other formats and editions.

Its pretty esoteric, but legman is an interesting writer and, needless to say, knows his subject well. Gershon legman gershon legman november 2, 1917 february 23, 1999 was an american cultural critic and folklorist, best known for his books the rationale of the dirty joke 1968 and the horn book. Legman was born in scranton, pennsylvania to emil and julia friedman legman, both of hungarianjewish descent. A symposium was held on march 19, 1948, by the association for the advancement of psychotherapy on the psychopathology of comic books with frederick wertham, m. Gershon legmans singular, disreputable resume made him a countercultural touchstone during his fortyyear exile in france. Dirty jokes and bawdy songs by susan davis overdrive. Of the two smartest creatures on the earth, man and the dolphin, each thought they were smarter than the other. Gershon legman november 2, 1917 february 23, 1999 was an american cultural critic and folklorist, best known for his books the rationale of the dirty joke 1968 and the horn book. See all books authored by gershon legman, including the limerick, and more.