Overview
"This revised edition of the original reference standard for urban legends provides an updated anthology of common myths and stories, and presents expanded coverage of international legends and tales shared and popularized online. 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. Approximately 300 individual entries for specific urban legends An introduction provides a brief history of urban legend research A selected bibliography and reference citations"
Full Product Details
Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Imprint: ABC-CLIO
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 6.10cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 2.064kg
ISBN: 9781598847208
ISBN 10: 1598847201
Pages: 782
Publication Date: 16 July 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
<p> This book is more than just a collection of urban legends--is also includes important folkloric concepts and topics ... Accessible enough for the casual reader yet scholarly enough for academic researchers, The Encyclopedia of Urban LegendS is an invaluable and fascinating book that merits a place on the shelf of any skeptic and student of folklore. - <p>Skeptical Inquirer
<p> The cross-referencing in the work is excellent. ... this is an excellent beginning resource for students interested in the subject. - <p>Booklist
Author Information
Jan Harold Brunvand, PhD, is professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
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