Rationale Of The Dirty Joke: An Analysis Of Sexual Humour: Volume Ii
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The second volume of G. Legman's landmark two-part work continues his exhaustive and unflinching psychoanalytic examination of sexual humour, building on the groundbreaking framework established in the first volume. Legman argues with wit and scholarly rigour that the dirty joke is far from mere vulgarity — it is a deeply revealing window into the anxieties, desires, and social taboos of human culture. Drawing on an enormous corpus of jokes collected over decades, the work catalogues and dissects hundreds of examples, organising them by theme and psychological meaning. Legman illustrates how humour functions as a coded language through which society negotiates its most forbidden subjects, from sexuality and death to gender and power. A work of remarkable breadth and audacity, it remains one of the most thorough academic treatments of erotic folklore ever published.
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
The second volume of G. Legman's landmark two-part work continues his exhaustive and unflinching psychoanalytic examination of sexual humour, building on the groundbreaking framework established in the first volume. Legman argues with wit and scholarly rigour that the dirty joke is far from mere vulgarity — it is a deeply revealing window into the anxieties, desires, and social taboos of human culture. Drawing on an enormous corpus of jokes collected over decades, the work catalogues and dissects hundreds of examples, organising them by theme and psychological meaning. Legman illustrates how humour functions as a coded language through which society negotiates its most forbidden subjects, from sexuality and death to gender and power. A work of remarkable breadth and audacity, it remains one of the most thorough academic treatments of erotic folklore ever published.
