Pissing in the snow and other ozark folktales ebook

Or just 0. Standard delivery: to days More Shipping Options. Light edgewear with some creasing in the upper right of the front cover and the spine; previous owner's name inside. Cover art by Hess.

Later Printing. Very Good. Your Review. Details Bookseller W. Terms of Sale W. Fraser Sandercombe Credit card orders may be made through Biblio. About the Seller W. Fraser Sandercombe Seller rating : This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers. Ask Seller a Question. 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. He is a national treasure, like Mark Twain. Randolph's reputation rests on the massive accumulation of folksong, folktale, and ballad materials he collected during forty years of living and working in the Ozarks. Unfortunately, in the s when Randolph published several collection of Ozark tales, the material in this volume was considered unprintable.

Pissing in the Snow departs from the academic prudery that until recently has restricted the amount of bawdy folklore available for study. It presents a body of material that for twenty years has circulated only in manuscript or microfilm under its present title. Introduction by Rayna Green and annotations by Frank A. About the Book 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. He is a national treasure, like Mark Twain. Randolph's reputation rests on the massive accumulation of folksong, folktale, and ballad materials he collected during forty years of living and working in the Ozarks.

Unfortunately, in the s when Randolph published several collection of Ozark tales, the material in this volume was considered unprintable.