Contemporary Legend : A Reader

Name: Contemporary Legend
Brand: Taylor & Francis Inc
SKU: 9780815313175
Price: 30600 KES
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ISBN: 9780815313175

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Format Hardback

Book Series New Perspectives in Folklore

ISBN-10 0815313179

ISBN-13 9780815313175

Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 1st, 1996

Print length 430 Pages

Weight 960 grams

Product Classification: The Arts

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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

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.

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