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"Though urban legends have become trendy, the legend itself is not a new genre in American and European folklore. Dégh (Degh) (emer., folklore, Indiana Univ.) has spent a lifetime gathering contemporary legends, reflecting on how they function in culture, and analyzing what they reveal about people and society. Neither a legend collection nor a recycling of old articles, this book in its early chapters defines and describes legends and situates legend studies in folklore and ethnology. Later chapters discuss legends as texts, legend tellers and networks, and the social and physical contexts in which legends flourish. These chapters touch on legend scares about AIDS needles in coin boxes, razors in apples, LSD on tickets, and satanism at Proctor and Gamble, and on legend-inspired personalities such as legend trippers, exorcists, the Columbine shooters, and leaders of suicide cults. The final chapter analyzes particular legends and legend complexes in detail. Even libraries that hold excellent books of legends and legend essays will want to own this definitive study, the crowning achievement of a scholar who understands that folklore can be not nice but dangerous and that we neglect it at our peril. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers." -- W. B. McCarthy, Pennsylvania State University, Choice, June 2002
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Acclaimed folklorist asks, "What is legend?"
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As an old anecdote goes, a German tax-law professor known for his tricky exam questions, once asked a candidate, "lf you climbed up this church tower, what would you see down below?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Bloomington Herald-Times, World War, Heaven's Gate, Indiana University, House of Blue Lights, Locust Hill, Mary Worth, The Boyfriend's Death, Andrew Stewart, Jesus Christ, Warlock Seat, Weekly World News, Bloody Mary, Diet Pepsi, Jack the Ripper, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Claus, The Stolen Grandmother, Alice Houston, Ann Landers, Chapel Healing Service, Frau Lex New!
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- Contemporary Legend: A Reader (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 1718) by G. Bennett on 12 pages
- Perspectives on Contemporary Legend - Volume II (CECTAL Conference Papers Series - No 5) (v. 2) by Gillian Bennett on 6 pages
- American Folklore (The Chicago History of American Civilization) by Richard M. Dorson on 4 pages
- Deutsche Sagen. by Jakob Grimm on page 35, page 305, and Back Matter
- American Folklore: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 1551) by Jan Brunvand in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur by Michael Eric Dyson in Back Matter
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