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Routledge. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1996. Hardback. 0815313179 . Quarter grey cloth and brown paper boards, clean and bright, bumped on corners, small split at base of spine, minute stain on front board, gilt lettering bright; Top edge slightly spotted and dusty, bottom and fore-edges clean, pages crisp with no ownership marks, B&W diagrams in text; Binding tight. Overall a nice, sturdy copy with minimal wear.; New Perspectives in Folklore; 5.75 x 8.75"; 430 pages .
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Contemporary Legend: A Reader Hardcover - 1996
by Gillian Bennett (Editor); Paul Smith (Editor)
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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.
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- Title Contemporary Legend: A Reader
- Author Gillian Bennett (Editor); Paul Smith (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 430
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, NY
- Date 1996-09-01
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780815313175 / 0815313179
- Weight 1.43 lbs (0.65 kg)
- Dimensions 8.76 x 6.04 x 1.13 in (22.25 x 15.34 x 2.87 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Legends, Urban folklore
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96019857
- Dewey Decimal Code 398.322
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Hardback. New. 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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Routledge, 1996. Hardcover. New. 382 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches.
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