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Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
Contributor(s): Brunvand, Jan Harold (Author)

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ISBN: 0393323587     ISBN-13: 9780393323580
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $37.95  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2002
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Annotation: This comprehensive and compellingly readable reference work answers all the urban legend questions, offering alphabetical entries on every aspect of the subject, including descriptions of individual legends and their variations, legend themes, and scholarly approaches to the genre.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
- Social Science | Popular Culture
Dewey: 398.209
Age Level: 12-UP
Grade Level: 7-UP
Physical Information: 1.21" H x 7.1" W x 10.02" L (2.52 lbs) 560 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
 
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Publisher Description:
We all know those stories that are too bizarre to be true--roasted babies, vanishing hitchhikers, scuba divers in trees--but have you heard about the ice man or the bullet baby? This comprehensive and compellingly readable reference work will answer all your urban legend questions, offering alphabetical entries on every aspect of the subject, including descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, legend themes, and scholarly approaches to the genre. Other entries discuss the relationship of urban legends to literature, film, comic books, music, and many other areas of popular culture. A Booklist Editors' Choice 2001 Reference Book. Unlike most encyclopedias, this one may be read cover to cover.--Choice Compiled by the foremost authority on this form of contemporary folklore....Superb.--Library Journal

Contributor Bio(s): Brunvand, Jan Harold: - Jan Harold Brunvand lives in Salt Lake City, where he is professor emeritus at the University of Utah. He is the author of numerous books, including The Vanishing Hitchhiker; The Choking Doberman; The Baby Train; Too Good to Be True; and Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid.
 
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