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 Editor(s): Bennett, Gillian; Smith, Paul. Series: New Perspectives in Folklore. Num Pages: 430 pages. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 612. . 1996. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Contemporary Legend: A Reader: 4 (New Perspectives in Folklore)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0815313179
ISBN 13: 9780815313175
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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First published in 1996. For most of the time since the Grimm brothers first contrasted the fairy tale (M�rchen) 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 M�rchen 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.

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