It's research, I swear

[khaosworks]

My Daily Show Indecision 2004 DVDs arrived in the post today, along with another package, a thick, scholarly tome of nearly a thousand pages published in 1975 which traces and analyses the history and anatomy of a literary phenomenon that stretches across all of Western culture, from the ancient Greeks to the modern day, a genre that continues to capture an indelible hold on our imaginations, from the time we hit puberty (and perhaps before that) and long into adulthood. It is a long, grand tradition that frankly, hasn't received all that much scholarship, and as far as I know, this is the only book to deal with it at such length.

It's title? "Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor" by G. Legman.

I'll be in my bunk.

Comments

[thespian.livejournal.com]

if it has anything on 17th and 18th century catches (basically songs with dirty puns in them), I'd be interested in hearing of them. They've recently captured my attention.

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

I'll let you know. Turns out that this near-1000 page monster is only the second volume. I've scoured for the first volume (811 pages, published 1968) and sent in an order for that.

On the other hand, this volume is all the reall filthy, scatalogical stuff, where the first volume was apparently the "clean" dirty jokes, so I probably got the more entertaining one first.

[querldox.livejournal.com]

You naughty lawyer you!