The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
• File Size : 36,5 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 2024

"Here he [the author] looks in detail at a dozen rampant and long-lived examples of this vigorous category of contemporary folklore, tracing their historyies, variations, sources, and meanings."--Jacket.

• Publisher : House of Anansi
• File Size : 35,8 Mb
• Release Date : 25 June 2024

Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 32,6 Mb
• Release Date : 07 February 2011

"If you enjoy these too-good-to-be-true tales, Brunvand's new book will give you hours of pleasure."—Chicago Tribune A fabulously entertaining book from the ultimate authority on those almost believable tales

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• File Size : 53,7 Mb
• Release Date : 12 February 2016

Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present. Folktales and fairy

• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• File Size : 33,8 Mb
• Release Date : 14 November 2001

Industrial advancement has not changed the basic fragility of human life, and the commercialization and consumer orientation of the mass media has actually helped legends travel faster and farther. Legends

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 20,9 Mb
• Release Date : 29 April 2015

Ed Shane here traces a change in the American pervasive mass media that once disseminated information quickly and stimulated mass cultural response, to a de-massified individual media that incubate a

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• File Size : 45,6 Mb
• Release Date : 16 July 2012

This revised edition of the original reference standard for urban legends provides an updated anthology of common myths and stories, and presents expanded coverage of international legends and tales shared

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 48,6 Mb
• Release Date : 15 October 2004

An anthology of the most chilling urban legends of all time collected by the maestro himself. Urban legends are those strange, but seemingly credible tales that always happen to a

• Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• File Size : 28,9 Mb
• Release Date : 28 May 2013

Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence

• Publisher : Open Court
• File Size : 20,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 December 2013

In this provocative book, noted scholar G. A. Wells tells the story of Higher Criticism: the close study of the scriptures that reveals difficulties and discrepancies. Wells traces the discipline’