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If You Should Go at Midnight : Legends and Legend Tripping in America /

"Tonight, across America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkened woods and wildlands, and creep down the crumbling corridors of abandoned buildings. They have set forth in search of a profound para...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Debies-Carl, Jeffrey S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: A prelude to the journey. Of legends and legend trips
  • The varieties of ostensive experience
  • Part II: The preliminal stage. Legend telling
  • Preparations and an uncanny journey
  • Part III: The liminal stage. Rites and rituals
  • Close encounters of the supernatural kind
  • Part IV: The postliminal stage. The return
  • Telling the tale
  • Part V: At journey's end. The past and future of legend tripping.