|
Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour
|
Buy Now
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs - The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,298
Discovery Miles 22 980
You Save: R214
(9%)
|
|
|
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs - The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman (Hardcover)
Series: Folklore Studies in Multicultural World
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
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.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
