Dirty Jokes And Bawdy Songs The Uncensored Life Of Gershon Legman Susan G Davis by Susan G. Davis 9780252042614, 9780252051456, 9780252084447, 0252042611, 0252051459, 0252084446 instant download after payment.

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"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 risque 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"
Far too much in this book on the folklore collection angle, than the pornography studies.
The author Davis was able to get the unpublished volumes of Legman's autobiography "“Peregrine Penis: An Autobiography of Innocence,” to fill out his 40 later years in France.
Gershon Legman (1917-1999) was a premier cataloguer of erotic folklore, (also known as pornographic folktales). His "Towards a Motif-index of erotic folklore (Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 75, 1962) was a classic.
See "In memorium: Make love, not war: The legacy of Gershon Legman, 1917–1999" by Martha Cornog & Timothy Perper in The Journal of Sex Research, 36:3, 316-317.
From the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, Legman published The Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor (First Series) and its companion, No Laughing Matter: The Rationale of the Dirty Joke (Second Series), composing his study of the thousands of jokes he collected over more than thirty years and analyzed, “more in tears than laughter,” for what they showed about humanity.