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Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition

Jan Harold Brunvand
4.9/5 (19299 ratings)
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Description:From roasted babies to vanishing hitchhikers to housewives in football helmets, this exhaustive and highly readable encyclopedia provides descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, examines legend themes, and explains scholarly approaches to the genre. Revised and expanded to include updated versions of the entries from the award-winning first edition, this work provides additional entries on a wide range of new topics that include terrorism, recent political events, and Hurricane Katrina.--Entries in Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition discuss the presence of urban legends in comic books, literature, film, music, and many other areas of popular culture, as well as the existence of "too good to be true" stories in Argentina, China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and several other countries. Serving as both an anthology of stories as well as a reference work, this encyclopedia will serve as a valuable resource for students and a source book for journalists, professional folklorists, and others who are researching or interested in urban legends.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition. To get started finding Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
820
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Release
2012
ISBN
159884721X

Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition

Jan Harold Brunvand
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Read Now Download now ⏭ listen AudioBook
Description: From roasted babies to vanishing hitchhikers to housewives in football helmets, this exhaustive and highly readable encyclopedia provides descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, examines legend themes, and explains scholarly approaches to the genre. Revised and expanded to include updated versions of the entries from the award-winning first edition, this work provides additional entries on a wide range of new topics that include terrorism, recent political events, and Hurricane Katrina.--Entries in Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition discuss the presence of urban legends in comic books, literature, film, music, and many other areas of popular culture, as well as the existence of "too good to be true" stories in Argentina, China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and several other countries. Serving as both an anthology of stories as well as a reference work, this encyclopedia will serve as a valuable resource for students and a source book for journalists, professional folklorists, and others who are researching or interested in urban legends.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition. To get started finding Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
820
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Release
2012
ISBN
159884721X

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