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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61204377 Title: Campus legends : a handbook Author: Elizabeth Tucker Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005. ISBN/ISSN: 0313332851 9780313332852 OCLC:61204377

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Campus legends : a handbook

Author:	Elizabeth Tucker
Publisher:	Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
Series:	Greenwood folklore handbooks
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	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 absent minded professor to the adventures of spring break to the mysterious world of fraternities and sororities, campu Read more... 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 absent minded professor to the adventures of spring break to the mysterious world of fraternities and sororities, campus legends have also become an important part of popular culture. This book provides a convenient, readable introduction to campus legends. While the volume focuses primarily on legends, it also explores rumors, pranks, rituals, and other related folklore types. The book begins with an overview of college and university folklore. This is followed by a discussion of particular types of legends and other folklore genres. The handbook then presents some 50 examples of college and university legends, including ghost stories, urban legends, food lore, drinking tales, murders and suicides, and many others. These examples are accompanied by brief comments. The book next surveys scholarship on campus folklore and discusses the place of college and university legends in films, television, literature, and popular culture. The volume cites numerous print and electronic resources. Includes information on The Blair Witch Project (movie), The Cadaver Arm, The Death of Little Mikey, The Hook, The Roommateʼs Death, The Vanishing Hitchhiker, etc.
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Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Elizabeth Tucker Find more information about:
ISBN:	0313332851 9780313332852
OCLC Number:	61204377
Description:	viii, 212 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:	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.
Series Title:	Greenwood folklore handbooks
Responsibility:	Elizabeth Tucker.
More information:	Table of contents

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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 absent minded professor to the adventures of spring break to the mysterious world of fraternities and sororities, campus legends have also become an important part of popular culture. This book provides a convenient, readable introduction to campus legends. While the volume focuses primarily on legends, it also explores rumors, pranks, rituals, and other related folklore types. The book begins with an overview of college and university folklore. This is followed by a discussion of particular types of legends and other folklore genres. The handbook then presents some 50 examples of college and university legends, including ghost stories, urban legends, food lore, drinking tales, murders and suicides, and many others. These examples are accompanied by brief comments. The book next surveys scholarship on campus folklore and discusses the place of college and university legends in films, television, literature, and popular culture. The volume cites numerous print and electronic resources.

Includes information on The Blair Witch Project (movie), The Cadaver Arm, The Death of Little Mikey, The Hook, The Roommateʼs Death, The Vanishing Hitchhiker, etc.

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