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- catalog abstract ""Here he [the author] looks in detail at a dozen rampant and long-lived examples of this vigorous category of contemporary folklore, tracing their historyies, variations, sources, and meanings."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11635746.
- catalog contributor b11635747.
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Here he [the author] looks in detail at a dozen rampant and long-lived examples of this vigorous category of contemporary folklore, tracing their historyies, variations, sources, and meanings."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Richard M. Dorson and the Urban Legend -- "The brain drain" legend of the long hot summer of 1995 (and beyond) -- "The baby roast" as a "new American urban legend" -- What's red and white and baked all over? -- Was it a stunned deer or just a deer stunt?: The story behind the Missouri legend -- Bedtime for Bozo: The legend of the clown who cussed the kids -- "Lights Out!": a faxlore phenomenon -- A blast heard 'round the world -- The folklorists' search for the ghost in search of help for a dying person -- "The missing day in time" -- Some oddities of military legendry -- Some news from the miscellaneous legend files -- The heroic hacker: legends of the computer age / Eric Brunvand -- Conclusion: The future of Urban Legends.".
- catalog extent "217 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Truth never stands in the way of a good story.".
- catalog identifier "0252024249 (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Truth never stands in the way of a good story.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog relation "Truth never stands in the way of a good story.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "398.2/0973/091732 21".
- catalog subject "GR105 .B716 2000".
- catalog subject "Legends United States.".
- catalog subject "Urban folklore United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Richard M. Dorson and the Urban Legend -- "The brain drain" legend of the long hot summer of 1995 (and beyond) -- "The baby roast" as a "new American urban legend" -- What's red and white and baked all over? -- Was it a stunned deer or just a deer stunt?: The story behind the Missouri legend -- Bedtime for Bozo: The legend of the clown who cussed the kids -- "Lights Out!": a faxlore phenomenon -- A blast heard 'round the world -- The folklorists' search for the ghost in search of help for a dying person -- "The missing day in time" -- Some oddities of military legendry -- Some news from the miscellaneous legend files -- The heroic hacker: legends of the computer age / Eric Brunvand -- Conclusion: The future of Urban Legends.".
- catalog title "The truth never stands in the way of a good story / Jan Harold Brunvand ; with a chapter on the heroic hacker by Erik Brunvand.".
- catalog type "text".