Contemporary Legend
Subtitle: A Reader (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 1718)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780815313175
Subjects: The Arts; Folklore; Sociology; Literature: Classics; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Legends; Urban folklore
First sentence: 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.