No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor (No Laughing Matter) (Hardcover)

~ Gershon Legman (Author)

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr (September 1982)
• ISBN-10: 0253347769
• ISBN-13: 978-0253347763
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,952,118 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Do You Enjoy Dirty Jokes?, January 11, 2001

By	Stephen M. Kerwick (Wichita, KS United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor (Hardcover)

Do you have a compelling interest in Freudian or Jungian analyses of vulgar humor? If so this is the book for you. If not, don't stop yet. Do you simply like dirty jokes? This may be for you too, but will probably be a bit on the esoteric expensive side. Do you have a cultural or literary interest in the development and similarity of dirty joke themes around the western world and throughout history? If so, these are (there are 2 volumes) absolutely the resource that you can't do without. Both your sense of humor and higher instincts for the scholarly will be amply rewarded. Additionally, if you have the warped or puerile sense of entertainment by the irony of juxtaposing the elevated with the profane, Legman will become your favorite author. One caution: if you have some sensitivity about the coarse and obscene, limit yourself to the first volume. The second moves more into the areas of sexual perversion and body function humor and accordingly is less suited to delicate sensitivities....