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Campus Legends A Handbook
Elizabeth Tucker
Book Code: GR3285
ISBN: 0-313-33285-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-33285-2
224 pages, photos
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/30/2005
List Price: $57.95 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)
Discount Price: $40.57 Greenwood Press Fall 2008 Backlist Sale. Use code 0826. Save 30%. Ends 12/31/2008.
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Awards:
  • Storytelling World Award 2007 Honor Title
Reviews:
  • [I]mmensely readable and chock full of ghostly college legends and tales, as well as discussions about their origins and deeper meanings....We need to hear them, we need to tell them. And in doing so we enact an ancient ritual, as deep as a religious ceremony, that has a strange way of simultaneously spooking and comforting us.
    —Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin     October 28, 2005
  • Students have told stories about their daily university lives and often created legends surrounding campus experiences: unique and intriguing is CAMPUS LEGENDS: A HANDBOOK, which surveys legends ranging from pure fantasy to theories of professor relationships, pranks, rituals and other folklore. While it may prove an unusual handbook for the general collection, any college-level collection strong in folktales will find it refreshingly different and worthy of acquisition.
    —Midwest Book Review/MBR Bookwatch & California Bookwatch     January 2006 and 2007
Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Late One Night
  • Early Legends
  • The Campus Landscape
  • College Power Structures
  • How Should We Present Legend Texts
  • Definitions and Classifications
  • Folklore
  • Folk
  • Legend
  • Folktale
  • Indexes
  • Campus Legend Categories
  • Related Genres
  • Examples and Texts
  • Origins
  • Ghosts
  • Witches
  • Initiation
  • Murders
  • Pranks
  • Drugs
  • AIDS
  • Food
  • Professors
  • Exams
  • Scholarship and Approaches
  • Nordic Scholars
  • Early Collections
  • Indiana Folklore
  • Urban Legends
  • Psychoanalytic Approaches
  • Experience-Centered Theory
  • Spectrality
  • Suicide
  • Cyberspace
  • Contexts
  • Political Protest
  • Psychology
  • Parapsychology
  • Anthropology
  • Literature
  • Film
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Referenced 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 Web sites
  • Selected Campus History Web sites
  • Commercial Legend Web sites
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2005021999
LCC Class: LA23
Dewey Class: 378
PDF Catalogs:
Folklore and Folklife 2007.pdf
Sale Catalog 2008.pdf
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