Campus legends : a handbook / Elizabeth Tucker.

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Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
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Series:Greenwood folklore handbooks
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Format: Book
Table of 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.