The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #162663   Message #3872440
Posted By: Lighter
18-Aug-17 - 06:31 PM
Thread Name: Available: Legman Autobiography
Subject: Folklore: Legman Autobiography
Many of us are familiar with the work of Gershon Legman (1917-1999), literary and social critic of bawdy tales and folklore.

Turns out that his widow, Judith, has been editing his humungous autobiography, which now runs to four humungous volumes, with more to come.

And you can get them at Amazon.com:

https://www.amazon.com/Love-You-Really-Part-One/dp/1530187729/ref=pd_bxgy_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1530187729&pd_rd_r=9FPQMXY

Anybody who's enjoyed Legman's vast and colorfully discursive Freudian analyses of dirty jokes (and his two humungous collections of limericks) will know what to expect.

Legman was also compiling a (need I say humungous?) anthology and analysis of bawdy songs since the Middle Ages. One hopes that Judith can get that done too.