Funny Peculiar: Gershon Legman Gershon Legman (November 2, – February 23, ) was an American cultural critic, folklorist, and author of The Rationale of the Dirty Joke () and The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore and Bibliography ().
Cataloger of erotica. Tireless social
A fierce opponent of censorship, Gershon Legman helped legitimize the academic study of erotic folklore as manifested in jokes, limericks, and songs. Biographical Note. Albert Ellis was born Biography. Gershon Legman (November 2, – February 23, ), American social critic and folklorist was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania to parents of Eastern or Central European Jewish descent. According to George Chauncey's book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, (), Legman was a.
Folklorist Gershon Legman1213. 'An uninhibited 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.
He obtained his bachelor's Gershon Legman ( – ) was an American social critic and folklorist. His magnum opus is Rationale of the Dirty Joke: (An Analysis of Sexual Humor), a tour de force of erotic folklore. Other important works include a Love and Death: A Study in Censorship, a history of sexual censorship, as well as the literary journal Neurotica.
Motivational Quotes. Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World). Champaign: University of Illinois Press, pages. ISBN:
Support for this approach has Gershon Legman (– 99), known as G. Legman to his readers, was a collector of the erotic, the obscene, and the banned. 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. He reveled in the profane words expunged from polite dictionaries.
There was one copy Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor is a book by American social critic and folklorist Gershon book analyzes more than jokes and folk tales in terms of social, psychological, and historical significance.