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Author : Gillian Bennett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (598 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Contemporary Legend, Volume IV written by Gillian Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gillian Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135812195
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Legend written by Gillian Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. For most of the time since the Grimm brothers first contrasted the fairy tale (Märchen) and the legend (Sage), the former has enjoyed the greater reputation among folklorists. Only in recent years, and with the work of such scholars as Gillian Bennett and Paul Smith, has it been recognized that—both as art and as news—the legend is now central to contemporary culture in a way that the Märchen no longer is. The present book is the first collection of essays on legend to appear in English since 1971. Nevertheless, its publication consolidates a gradual shift which has taken place over the last two decades, in which English-language scholarship has taken the lead in the study of certain kinds of legends—variously dubbed modern horror legends, urban legends, urban myths or, here, contemporary legends.
Author : International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. International Conference
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Contemporary Legend written by International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. International Conference and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Smith
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Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Contemporary Legend written by Paul Smith and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book Contemporary Legend written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perspectives on contemporary legend: a seminar written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042982369X
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Performance and Practice written by Michael Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, this volume takes a dive into methods of teenage storytelling, including questions of believability, fashionability, rebellious spirit, the supernatural, personal narratives and riddles, along with an archive of texts collected by the author intended to illuminate and inform the analysis. It builds on the extensive work of Peter and Iona Opie on the same subject involving children of all ages and explores connections to folklore and narrative variations from a performative perspective. Michael Wilson shares their findings that children continue to cherish their traditional lore in the face of modern technological entertainment. His study is similar in responding to the poor status and even denial of a teenage narrative tradition, inspired by both short and extended narratives which he experienced daily. Wilson hoped to give academic depth and breadth to the storytelling renaissance and giving teenage storytellers their rightful place in our ongoing oral narrative tradition.
Author : Gillian Bennett
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ISBN 13 : 9781850751182
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on contemporary legend written by Gillian Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. International conference
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (898 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Contemporary Legend 2014 written by International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. International conference and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Kinsella
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626741778
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Legend-Tripping Online written by Michael Kinsella and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Internet, seekers investigate anonymous manifestos that focus on the findings of brilliant scientists said to have discovered pathways into alternate realities. Gathering on web forums, researchers not only share their observations, but also report having anomalous experiences, which they believe come from their online involvement with these veiled documents. Seeming logic combines with wild twists of lost Moorish science and pseudo-string theory. Enthusiasts insist any obstacle to revelation is a sure sign of great and wide-reaching efforts by consensus powers wishing to suppress all the liberating truths in the Incunabula Papers (included here in complete form). In Legend-Tripping Online, Michael Kinsella explores these and other extraordinary pursuits. This is the first book dedicated to legend-tripping, ritual quests in which people strive to explore and find manifest the very events described by supernatural legends. Through collective performances, legend-trippers harness the interpretive frameworks these stories provide and often claim incredible, out-of-this-world experiences that in turn perpetuate supernatural legends. Legends and legend-tripping are assuming tremendous prominence in a world confronting new speeds of diversification, connection, and increasing cognitive load. As guardians of tradition as well as agents of change, legends and the ordeals they inspire contextualize ancient and emergent ideas, behaviors, and technologies that challenge familiar realities. This book analyzes supernatural legends and the ways in which the sharing spirit of the internet collectivizes, codifies, and makes folklore of fantastic speculation.
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Total Pages : 222 pages
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Download or read book Contemporary Legend written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. International Conference
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Contemporary Legend written by International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. International Conference and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gail de Vos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313069875
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Tales, Rumors, and Gossip written by Gail de Vos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the stories and themes that capture the imagination of young people today. A sampling of tales is organized into broad subject areas, such as contaminated food, threats to children, and satanic legends, and the tales are analyzed according to function, structure, and international variants. De Vos also discusses film and literary adaptions and offers suggestions for adapting tales for the junior high and high school curriculum. Explore the stories and themes that capture the imagination of young people today. After a fascinating overview and discussion of contemporary legends (commonly referred to as modern urban legends and often told as true), de Vos examines them in their relationship to rumors and gossip, ostension (acting out the legends), the role of the media in formulation and dissemination, and related tales (e.g., literary horror tales). A sampling of tales is organized into broad subject areas, such as contaminated food, threats to children, and satanic legends, and the legends are analyzed according to function, structure, and international variants. De Vos discusses some of the literary and visual adaptations in popular culture and offers suggestions for adapting tales for the junior high and high school curriculum. A fascinating professional book, this is a great resource to use with young adults.
Author : Paul Smith
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Contemporary Legend written by Paul Smith and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Veronique Campion-Vincent
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351492527
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Rumor Mills written by Veronique Campion-Vincent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this volume is to explore the social and political dynamics of rumor and the related concept of urban or contemporary legend. These forms of communication often appear in tandem with social problems, including riots, racial or political violence, and social and economic upheavals. The volume emphasizes the connection of rumor to a set of social concerns from government corruption and corporate scandal, to racial, religious, and other prejudices. Central to the dialogue are issues of truth, belief, history, public policy, and evidence.Rumor has been recognized as one of the most important contributing factors to violence and discrimination. Yet, despite its significance in exacerbating social discord and mistrust, little systematic scholarly attention has been paid to the political origins and consequences of rumor. Rumor is defined as a proposition for belief that is not backed by secure standards of evidence. Rumor can be traditional or not, and can be expressed as a simple claim of fact. In both instances groups of claim-makers, operating out of their own interests and with a set of resources, attempt to depict reality, and if possible, impact the future.The need for this book is underscored by changing patterns of technology. What in the past was grounded in face- to-face interaction is now often found on the Internet, which is a major source of rumor. An appreciation of how new electronic forms of communication affect communal belief is essential for explicating rumor dynamics. The volume is comprehensive. Essays cover race and ethnicity, migration and globalization, corporate malfeasance, and state and government corruption. While editors and contributors well appreciate the dynamic nature of rumors and legends, the high quality of the effort make it evident that the issues that are raised and reoccur will serve to channel and inspire research in this major field of communications research for years to come.
Author : Bill Ellis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617030017
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults written by Bill Ellis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Young
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496839455
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends written by Simon Young and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 Brian McConnell Book Award from the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including the “Choking Doberman,” the “Eaten Ticket,” and the “Vanishing Hitchhiker.” But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s. Young introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from “Beetle Eyes” to the “Shoplifter’s Dilemma” and from “Hands in the Muff” to the “Suicide Club.” While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment. Young begins the volume with a lengthy introduction assessing nineteenth-century media, emphasizing the importance of the written word to the perpetuation and preservation of these myths. He draws on numerous nineteenth-century books, periodicals, and ephemera, including digitized newspaper archives—particularly the British Newspaper Archive, an exciting new hunting ground for folklorists. The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends will appeal to an academic audience as well as to anyone who is interested in urban legends.
