{"product_id":"pissing-in-the-snow-and-other-ozark-folktales-paperback","title":"Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVance Randolph\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVance 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.\" In Legman's estimation, \"We have no one else like him. He is a national treasure, like Mark Twain. \u003cbr\u003e 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 1950s when Randolph published several collection of Ozark tales, the material in this volume was considered unprintable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePissing in the Snow\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e When placed in their rightful context alongside Randolph's other collections of folk material, the bawdy tales help provide evidence of what Ozark hill people think about their own lives and language. As Rayna Green writes in her introduction, \"The entire body of material . . . offers a picture of expressive behavior unparalleled by any other American region's or group's study.\" Hoffmann's annotations draw parallels between the erotic narrative tradition of the Ozarks and that in other parts of the country and the world, especially Europe. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVance Randolph, \u003c\/b\u003e the author of more than a dozen books on American folklore, including five collections of Ozark folktales and a four-volume collection of Ozark folksongs, lived in the Ozark mountains from 1920 until his death in 1980. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 153\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 8.24 x 5.23 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 1976\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754072637728,"sku":"9780252013645","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/caf439871c8860808f8670acde5d2b36.webp?v=1780032821","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/pissing-in-the-snow-and-other-ozark-folktales-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}