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Encyclopedia of Urban Legends Paperback - 2002
by Jan Harold Brunvand
This comprehensive and compellingly readable reference work answers all the urban legend questions, offering alphabetical entries on every aspect of the subject, including descriptions of individual legends and their variations, legend themes, and scholarly approaches to the genre.
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The Encyclopedia of Urban Legends is the definitive work from the world's foremost authority on the study of urban legends, Jan Harold Brunvand. This encyclopedia offers descriptions of hundreds of individual legends. The thorough coverage of urban legends includes all countries in which published urban legend collections are presently available. Urban legends are a specimen of modern folk narrative, and this encyclopedia contains entries on how to collect, classify, and analyze texts and performances.Other entries discuss the relationship of urban legends to literature, film, comic books, music, and many other areas of popular culture. Coverage includes academic legends, earthquake stories, Internet resources, tabloids in urban legends, and more. All entries are cross referenced and feature brief bibliographies. A general bibliography suggests further readings on the subject. The volume is richly illustrated and is based on the latest scholarship, including materials available on the Internet.
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College and university campuses, despite being centers of research, learning, and sophistication, are also fertile grounds for the growth of legends and other folklore.
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- Title Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
- Author Jan Harold Brunvand
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 560
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Date 2002-11-17
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780393323580 / 0393323587
- Weight 2.52 lbs (1.14 kg)
- Dimensions 10.02 x 7.1 x 1.21 in (25.45 x 18.03 x 3.07 cm)
- Ages 12 to UP years
- Grade levels 7 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Urban folklore - United States, Legends - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code 398.209
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