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Indlæser... Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales (1976)af Vance Randolph
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Happened upon this little gem in the library while looking through the folk tale section. I figured I'd better check it out since it's so close to home and I love to hear old tales. This is pretty raunchy downhome stories and talk. A quick, easy read and the title story Pissing in the Snow is by far one of the funniest. This book is not for anyone without a nasty sense of humor. This could have been a fun little book of bawdy Ozark folktales, assembled by Ozark folklorist Vance Randolph. But someone got hold of it and added comments ("annotations") at the end of each story, explaining the "true" origins of each story, and comparing it to other stories across the ages. It took something amusing and turned it into serious study. I tried to not read the annotations, but I couldn't, and they really detracted from some of the stories. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
The well-known Ozark folklorist gathers together bawdy tales, previously considered unprintable, that provide insight into the region's rich exotic narrative tradition. No library descriptions found. |
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It's all dressed up with serious introductions, footnotes, and references, but at its heart (and elsewhere), it's a collection of naughty tales about traveling salesmen, farmers' daughters, dim-witted farm boys, libertine preachers, sexually frustrated widows, brothels, barrooms, and bedrooms, and the misadventures that occur therein. Some of the stories may be familiar -- in fact, my dad's favorite blue joke is in there -- and the afterwords following most of the tales trace them back in time, some as far as the middle ages.
Indeed, the ultimate moral may be that there's no such thing as a new dirty joke, so if you're in the mood for a retelling of some blue classics, this is an amusing way to spend an evening. ( )