TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Paul
TI  - Perspectives on contemporary legend: proceedings of the conference on contemporary legend, Sheffield, July 1982 
T2  - CECTAL conference papers series ; 
PY  - 1984///
CY  - Sheffield
PB  - The Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, University of Sheffield
KW  - UkLoVW
KW  - Urban folklore
KW  - Legends
N1  - Tales of the troubles / Linda M. Ballard -- Occupational identity and legend decline: the meat that never spoils / Ervin Beck -- The phantom hitchhiker: neither modern, urban nor legend? / Gillian Bennett -- Belief and disbelief: an examination of reactions to the presentation of rumour legends / Georgina Boyes -- The choking doberman: a new urban legend / Jan Brunvand -- Modern tradition and the Rolls Royce / David Buchan -- Continuity and change in legendry: two Mexican-American examples / Mark Glazer -- The razor blades in the apples syndrome / Sylvia Grider -- Why are there so many modern legends about revenge? / Bengt af Klintberg -- The tale of a turkey neck: a legend case study / Gordon McCulloch -- Legends as narrative response / W. F. H. Nicolaisen -- From rhema to logos: contemporary Florida legends / J. Russell Reaver -- Legends in a culturally complex border area / Stanley Robe -- On the receiving end: when legend becomes rumour / Paul Smith -- Problems in defining modern legend / Noel Williams -- The modern comic legend: a cross genre study / Daniel Barnes -- Contemporary legend in Dublin / Eílís ní Dhuibhne -- Some continuities in literary survival and folk memory / Alec M. Shearman -- Old hags never die: the persistence of ancient traditions / Donald Ward
ER  -