Campus legends : a handbook /

Since the earliest days of universities, students have told stories about their daily lives, often emphasizing extraordinary, surprising, and baffling events. Legends often dramatize certain hopes and fears, showing how stressful and exciting the college experience can be. From the stereotype of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tucker, Elizabeth, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
Colección:Greenwood folklore handbooks.
Temas:
Universities and colleges > Legends.
Universités > Légendes.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Universities and colleges
Legends
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Late One Night. . .
  • Early Legends
  • The Campus Landscape
  • College Power Structures
  • How Should We Present Legend Texts?
  • 2. Definitions and Classifications
  • Folklore
  • Folk
  • Legend
  • Folktale
  • Indexes
  • Campus Legend Categories
  • Related Genres
  • 3. Examples and Texts
  • Origins
  • Ghosts
  • Witches
  • Initiation
  • Murders
  • Pranks
  • Drugs
  • AIDS
  • Food
  • Professors
  • Exams
  • 4. Scholarship and Approaches
  • Nordic Scholars
  • Early Collections
  • Indiana Folklore
  • Urban Legends
  • Psychoanalytic Approaches
  • Experience-Centered Theory
  • Spectrality
  • Suicide
  • Cyberspace
  • 5. Contexts
  • Political Protest
  • Psychology
  • Parapsychology
  • Anthropology
  • Literature
  • Film
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Reference Works
  • Legend Studies
  • International Legend Collections
  • Popular Ghost Story Collections
  • College/University Histories
  • College/University Studies
  • Memoir
  • Novels
  • Web Resources
  • Search Engines
  • Folklore Archives
  • Folklore Journals
  • College Newspapers
  • Selected Campus Ghost Story Websites
  • Selected Campus History Websites
  • Commercial Legend Websites.

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