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The Wordsworth Book of Urban Legend
Rodney Dale
出版Wordsworth Editions, 2000
主題Humor / Form / Anecdotes & QuotationsLanguage Arts & Disciplines / RhetoricLiterary Collections / EssaysSocial Science / Folklore & Mythology
ISBN18402230309781840223033
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Hh3-sqILs6wC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋As a genre, the urban legend was recognised and named only in the mid-1970s. This book brings together a rich variety of these tales which continued to flourish and circulate, classified under different headings for ease of reference, and linked together by the author's narrative. Uncle Joe's ashes baked in a cake (Delicious!); Granny's corpse stolen along with the family car; sewers alive with alligators...all these alleged occurrences - and many, many others - are the stuff of urban legend: the extraordinary things that you're told happen to that elusive 'friend of a friend' (foaf); someone whom you can never pin down, however hard you try.