Limericks
Limericks

Author: F. Oppel

Publisher: Booksales

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9781555217839

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"THE FAMOUS PARIS EDITION, COMPLETE & UNEXPURGATED, 1700 EXAMPLES". INCLUDES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES (p. 361-468) AND INDEXES

"The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" and Other Songs Cowboys Sing

Author: Guy Logsdon

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780252064883

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"One of the finest works to come out in recent years on cowboy songs, in addition to being the first good collection of the cowboy's bawdy material. . . . A must for anyone who is a student of cowboy music--or anyone who just likes the sound of dirty subject matter rhyming." -- Hal Cannon, Journal of Country Music "A brave and honest step toward increasing our understanding of what cowboys really sing." -- Bob Bovee, Old Time Herald "A thorough piece of scholarship and collectanea and a valuable, welcome addition to cowboy song literature." -- Keith Cunningham, Mid-America Folklore "Logsdon has written the book with a scholar's attention to detail. But what shows through the scholarship is the collector's enthusiasm for the material. . . . A superb job in a difficult area." -- Angus Kress Gillespie, Journal of American History "A major contribution to the folklore and popular culture, history, and social psychology of American cowboy culture." -- Kenneth S. Goldstein, former president, American Folklore Society

Better Never to Have Been
Better Never to Have Been

Author: David Benatar

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0199549265

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Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. David Benatar presents a startling challenge to these assumptions. He argues that people systematically overestimate the quality of their life, and suffer quite serious harms by coming into existence.

Speech Play
Speech Play

Author: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1512803154

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From riddles to proverbs, from jingles to jokes, from mnemonics to pig Latin to dueling with words, speech play is central to social life in all of its forms. These essays describe a variety of speech play genres, formulate the "rules" for play with language, and discuss the relevance of speech play to current issues in linguistic theory, cognitive development, and the ethnography of speaking.

Sitting in the Earth and Laughing
Sitting in the Earth and Laughing

Author: Arthur Roy Eckardt

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Published:

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781412834100

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The work includes many of Dr. Eckardt's own fanciful stories, essays, and verses as well as material derived from student malapropisms, from children, and from professional humorists and comedians. Appearing at a time of burgeoning scholarly and popular interest in the domain of humor, Sitting in the Earth and Laughing shows how humor and laughter lie within the realm of human mysteries--together with tragedy, suffering, and love--that can be comprehended and relished.

Blow the Candle Out (c)
Blow the Candle Out (c)

Author:

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published:

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9781610750769

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Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore, Volume II, Folk Rhymes and Other Lore