Roger Welsch

Why I'm an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

One day Roger Welsch ventured to ask his father a delicate personal question: "e;Why am I an only child?"e; His father's answer is one of many examples of the delightful and laughter-inducing ribald tales Welsch has compiled from a lifetime of listening to and sharing the folklore of the Plains. More narrative than simple jokes, and the product of multiple retellings, these coarse tales were even delivered by such prudish sources as Welsch's stern and fearsome German great-aunts. Speaking of cucumbers and sausages in a toast to a newly married couple, the prim and proper women of Welsch's memory voice the obscene and unspeakable in stories fit for general company. Why I'm an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales is Welsch's celebration of the gentle and evocative bits of humor reflecting the personality of the people of the Plains.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803285934
• Artikelnr.: 55972466

Autorenporträt

Roger Welsch is a retired professor of English and anthropology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and a former essayist for CBS News Sunday Morning. He is the author of more than forty books, including A Treasury of Nebraska Pioneer Folklore (Nebraska, 1966), My Nebraska: The Good, the Bad, and the Husker (Nebraska, 2011), and most recently, The Reluctant Pilgrim: A Skeptic’s Journey into Native Mysteries (Nebraska, 2015). Dick Cavett is the former talk-show host of The Dick Cavett Show. Originally from Nebraska, he was a writer for The Tonight Show for host Johnny Carson and won three Emmy awards throughout his career.  

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgments
A Brief but Suitably Scholarly and Boring Introduction
But Enough about Me—What Do You Know about Me?
Plain Talk about the Plains, Definitions, and What Folklore Is, Isn’t,
Might Be, and Is Mostly
A Lesson in Proper Diction
Why I’m an Only Child
A Special Announcement
Dad Instructs Me about Civil Ribaldry Even as I Thought I Was Instructing
Him
Naughty Is in the Ears of the Beholder
A First Lesson in Military Nomenclature
Diction Friction
Evoked and Provoked
Cipherin’
Thinking Fast
Cold . . . and Deep
In-house Outhouses
Speaking of Treed Raccoons
Harvard Law
Urban v. Rural
The Eternal Cuckold
Now’s Your Chance
Using the Imagination
Ways of the Wise
Traffic Flow
Speaking of the Innocence of the Gentler Sex
Oh, Dat Ole! Oh, Dat Lena!
Same Idea, Different Names
No Boyz Aloud
The Church of What?
What Did He Say?
How You Gonna Keep ’Em down on the Farm (after They’ve Seen the Farm)?
Birds Do It, Bees Do It
Indiscreet Secretions
Why Is It Called a “Fly?”
Geriatric Indignities
Callow Youth
Age Has Nothing to Do with It
Innocent? Or Simply Not Guilty?
Other Unmentionables
An Afterword