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Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales
Vance Randolph
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Description for Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales
Paperback. The well-known Ozark folklorist gathers together bawdy tales, previously considered unprintable, that provide insight into the region's rich exotic narrative tradition. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 240.
Vance Randolph has long been an undeniable presence on the American folklore scholarship scene. His Ozark corpus is the best known single body of regional folklore in the United States, according to Richard Dorson, director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University. And Gershon Legman, the world's leading scholar of sexual and scatological humor, has called Randolph the greatest and most successful field collector and regional folklorist that America ever had. In Legman's estimation, We have no one else like him. He is a national treasure, like Mark Twain. Randolph's reputation rests on the massive ... Read more
Vance Randolph has long been an undeniable presence on the American folklore scholarship scene. His Ozark corpus is the best known single body of regional folklore in the United States, according to Richard Dorson, director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University. And Gershon Legman, the world's leading scholar of sexual and scatological humor, has called Randolph the greatest and most successful field collector and regional folklorist that America ever had. In Legman's estimation, We have no one else like him. He is a national treasure, like Mark Twain. Randolph's reputation rests on the massive ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Condition
New
Weight
240g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252013645
SKU
V9780252013645
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About Vance Randolph
Vance Randolph, the author of more than a dozen books on American folklore, including five collections of Ozark folktales and a four-volume collection of Ozark folksongs, lived in the Ozark mountains from 1920 until his death in 1980.
Reviews for Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales
A delightful book of Americana. . . for readers who enjoy bawdy humor and are curious about its rationale and purpose.
Kansas City Star An unparalleled American folktale collection.
Gershon Legman, editor of Kryptadia: The Journal of Erotic Folklore As ripe, raunchy, and unprintable as honest 'country humor' could possibly be. . . ... Read more
Kansas City Star An unparalleled American folktale collection.
Gershon Legman, editor of Kryptadia: The Journal of Erotic Folklore As ripe, raunchy, and unprintable as honest 'country humor' could possibly be. . . ... Read more