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Why I'm an only child and other slightly naughty Plains folktales / Roger Welsch ; foreword by Dick Cavett.
- Title
- Why I'm an only child and other slightly naughty Plains folktales / Roger Welsch ; foreword by Dick Cavett.
- Author
- Welsch, Roger L.
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3573.E4944 W58 2016 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Cavett, Dick
- Description
- xiii, 189 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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 -- Inhouse Outhouses -- Speaking of Treed Raccoons -- Harvard Law -- Urban vs. Rural -- The Eternal Cuckold -- Now's Your Chance -- Using the Imagination -- Ways of the Wise -- Traffic Flow -- Speaking of the Innocence of the Gentle 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) -- The 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.
- ISBN
- 9780803284289
- 0803284284
- 9780803285910 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780803285927 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780803285934 (canceled/invalid)
- 0803285914 (canceled/invalid)
- 0803285922 (canceled/invalid)
- 0803285930 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015024784
- OCLC
- 927165930
- SCSB-11517766
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library