The Vanishing Hitchhiker (eBook)

American Urban Legends and Their Meanings

Jan Harold Brunvand (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2003
224 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-34653-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The groundbreaking book that launched America's urban legend obsession!Folklore scholar Jan Harold Brunvand assembles the best-known urban legendsincluding "e;The Hook,"e; "e;The Spider in the Hairdo,"e; and "e;The Baby-Sitter and the Man Upstairs"e;and provides an enlightening and entertaining analysis of their variants and evolution. The Vanishing Hitchhiker was Professor Brunvand's first popular book on urban legends, and it remains a classic. The culmination of twenty years of collection and research, this book is a must-have for urban legend lovers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.12.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: cautionary • Contemporary • cultural symbols • dead cat • death car • Folklore • folk narratives • Ghosts • Hook • Lore • Myth • Mythology • Stories • Tale • teenage horrors
• ISBN-10: 0-393-34653-6 / 0393346536
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34653-4 / 9780393346534