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Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre Book

Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre is a descriptive and analytical study of the legend, the most prolific and characteristic form of folklore in contemporary Western civilization. Contemporary society has created more subcultures and folklore-bearing social groups than ever before. Commercialization and consumer orientation of the mass media helped legends to travel faster and farther, and generated more legend-communicating groups than ever before. Legends are not only communicated orally, face-to-face, but appear in the press, on the radio and TV as well as on countless websites of the internet and e-mail to keep snowballing and generating new waves of the "culture of fear."Read More

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  • 0253339294
  • 9780253339294
  • Linda Degh
  • 2 January 2002
  • Indiana University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 496
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