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Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs
- The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman
Engelsk Paperback
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs
- The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman
Engelsk Paperback

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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 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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
332
ISBN-13:
9780252084447
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0252084446
Udg. Dato:
9 okt 2019
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
156mm
Forlag:
University of Illinois Press
Oplagsdato:
9 okt 2019
Forfatter(e):
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