From the vanishing hitchhiker to the hook-handed killer, from the vaginal serpent to Elvis Alive!, and from the "McWorm" burger to the mouse in the cola can, 23 essays examine this genre, and its effect on society. Explores interpretation, reactions, folklore and film, the social construction of ur
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The range of interpretive possibility open to students of the modern urban legend has widened considerably as we have come to recognize that these narratives, like proverbs and conversational genres generally, are intimately bound up with their immediate performance contexts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
legend canon, coffin variation, contemporary legend research, narrative velocity, adolescent legends, mercantile legends, legend scholarship, newspaper folklore, legend core, contemporary legends, oral literary criticism, coke law, folk narrative research, other urban legends, rumour legends, abuse discourse, satanic version, legend performance, modern urban legend, modern legend, legend genre, belief tales, legend types, lexical density, fried rat Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Indiana Folklore, Journal of American Folklore, Western Folklore, Paul Smith, Alan Dundes, United States, Los Angeles, Gillian Bennett, Journal of the Folklore Institute, Splitter Collection, Jan Harold Brunvand, The Hairy-Handed Hitchhiker, American Folk Legend, The Choking Doberman, Foster's Release, San Francisco, University of Chicago Press, Jan Brunvand, Press Democrat, Joel Best, Sheffield Academic Press, David Buchan, Detroit News, Elvis Presley New!
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The range of interpretive possibility open to students of the modern urban legend has widened considerably as we have come to recognize that these narratives, like proverbs and conversational genres generally, are intimately bound up with their immediate performance contexts. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
legend canon, coffin variation, contemporary legend research, narrative velocity, adolescent legends, mercantile legends, legend scholarship, newspaper folklore, legend core, contemporary legends, oral literary criticism, coke law, folk narrative research, other urban legends, rumour legends, abuse discourse, satanic version, legend performance, modern urban legend, modern legend, legend genre, belief tales, legend types, lexical density, fried rat Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Indiana Folklore, Journal of American Folklore, Western Folklore, Paul Smith, Alan Dundes, United States, Los Angeles, Gillian Bennett, Journal of the Folklore Institute, Splitter Collection, Jan Harold Brunvand, The Hairy-Handed Hitchhiker, American Folk Legend, The Choking Doberman, Foster's Release, San Francisco, University of Chicago Press, Jan Brunvand, Press Democrat, Joel Best, Sheffield Academic Press, David Buchan, Detroit News, Elvis Presley New!
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- Perspectives on Contemporary Legend - Volume II (CECTAL Conference Papers Series - No 5) (v. 2) by Gillian Bennett on 14 pages
- Book of Nasty Legends by Paul Smith on 4 pages
- Perspectives on Contemporary Legend: A Nest of Vipers v. 5 by Gillian Bennett on 4 pages
- The German Legends of the Brothers Grimm, Volume 2 (Translations in Folklore Studies) by Donald Ward on page 85, page 99, and page 339
- Satan Wants You: The Cult of Devil Worship in America by Arthur Lyons on page 185, page 353, and page 361
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- Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre by Linda Dégh on 12 pages
- Encyclopedia of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand on 7 pages
- Bodies: Sex, Violence, Disease, and Death in Contemporary Legend by Gillian Bennett on 7 pages
- Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live by Bill Ellis on 7 pages
- Once Upon A Virus by Diane Goldstein on 6 pages
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