The Horn Book
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"The last conscientious jestbook editor , who was something other than a mere plagiarist , was Antoine Le Metel, sieur d'Ouville, whose Contes aux heures perdues, published first in 1644, became the storehouse rifled by all later compilers."--The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore and Bibliography (1964) by Gershon Legman "Only twenty years later did there finally appear , in Holland in 1676 , the first erotic work in French actually in the novel form: Blessebois' Le Rut, ou La Pudeur éteinte, a work of revenge, and the form was immediately take over for the use of equally violent religious satire, in Chavigny's Venus in the Cloister."--The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore and Bibliography (1964) by Gershon Legman "Erotic literature exists because it serves an important need. This need is twofold: the education of the inexperienced young, and the excitation of the impotent or old." --The Horn Book (1964) by Gershon Legman Those who know, don't say --Lao Tzu, epigraph But deevil damn the lousy loun. --"Wha'll Mow Me Now" by Robert Burns |
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The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore and Bibliography (1964) is a collection of writings by Gershon Legman from the 1950s and 1960s. It features a long section on the "rediscovery" of Robert Burns’s collection "The Merry Muses of Caledonia".
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Table of contents
I. Studies in erotic bibliography
The bibliography of prohibited books: Pisanus Fraxi
The horn book, and other bibliographical problems
Great collectors of erotica
II. The rediscovery of Burns' Merry Muses of Caledonia
The Cunningham manuscript
The Merry Muses as folklore
III. Problems of erotic folklore
Misconceptions in erotic folklore
Folk literature and folklore with a few words on science-fiction
The bawdy song, in fact and in print
The limerick: a history in brief
Toward a motif-index of erotic humor
Folksongs, fakelore, and cash
Who owns folklore?
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