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- catalog abstract ""Legend and Belief is a descriptive and analytical study of the legend, the most prolific and characteristic form of folklore in contemporary Western civilization. Not that the legend does not have ancient roots; like the tale, the joke, the ballad, the proverb, or mummery, it was part of an archaic, preindustrial tradition. But the legends - as old as conversation and debate about problems of the human condition - has been able to survive the technological innovations of our time. Legend has remained contemporaneous, while many other genres succumbed to their own anachronism. The legend's concerns are universal and eternal, touching upon the most sensitive areas of our existence. This is why stories about supernatural encounters, possessions, divine and infernal miracles, evil spirits, monsters, and prophetic dreams, as well as horror stories about the criminally insane, continue to proliferate in the urban/industrial world. Industrial advancement has not changed the basic fragility of human life, and the commercialization and consumer orientation of the mass media has actually helped legends travel faster and farther. Legends are communicated not only orally, face to face, but also in the press, on radio and television, on countless Web sites, and by e-mail, perpetuating new waves of the "culture of fear.""--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12324235.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Legend and Belief is a descriptive and analytical study of the legend, the most prolific and characteristic form of folklore in contemporary Western civilization. Not that the legend does not have ancient roots; like the tale, the joke, the ballad, the proverb, or mummery, it was part of an archaic, preindustrial tradition. But the legends - as old as conversation and debate about problems of the human condition - has been able to survive the technological innovations of our time. Legend has remained contemporaneous, while many other genres succumbed to their own anachronism. The legend's concerns are universal and eternal, touching upon the most sensitive areas of our existence. This is why stories about supernatural encounters, possessions, divine and infernal miracles, evil spirits, monsters, and prophetic dreams, as well as horror stories about the criminally insane, continue to proliferate in the urban/industrial world. Industrial advancement has not changed the basic fragility of human life, and the commercialization and consumer orientation of the mass media has actually helped legends travel faster and farther. Legends are communicated not only orally, face to face, but also in the press, on radio and television, on countless Web sites, and by e-mail, perpetuating new waves of the "culture of fear.""--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Acknowledgments -- 1. The topic, purpose, and destination of this book -- 2. Is there a definition for the legend? -- 3. Legend as text in context -- 4. Legend-tellers -- 5. The landscape and the climate of the legend -- 6. Texts, contextualized and processed -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-488) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 498 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Legend and belief.".
- catalog identifier "0253339294 (cl : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Legend and belief.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
- catalog relation "Legend and belief.".
- catalog subject "398 21".
- catalog subject "Belief and doubt.".
- catalog subject "GR78 .D44 2001".
- catalog subject "Legends.".
- catalog subject "Urban folklore.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Acknowledgments -- 1. The topic, purpose, and destination of this book -- 2. Is there a definition for the legend? -- 3. Legend as text in context -- 4. Legend-tellers -- 5. The landscape and the climate of the legend -- 6. Texts, contextualized and processed -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "Legend and belief : dialectics of a folklore genre / Linda Dégh.".
- catalog type "text".