The Watkins Book of Urban Legends
Gail de Vos, "The Watkins Book of Urban Legends"
English | ISBN: 1786788551 | 2024 | 320 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1786788551 | 2024 | 320 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
A comprehensive and entertaining collection of urban legends from around the world, with a history and analysis of the origin of each tale, compiled by a leading authority in the field.
A rich and unique collection of folktales and urban legends from around the world. Each story comes with an accompanying brief note to provide context. Including new tales reflecting new concerns; old tales repurposed for new audiences and new ways of telling.
The collection illustrates that these stories are now alive across many new media. This is the first such popular book to bring together stories with both traditional and digital media origins and to examine how the phenomenon of social media has affected both the spread of urban legends and their very nature.
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