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Myths, Legends, and Contemporary Nigerian Theatre
Matatu, 2017Femi Osofisan belongs to the new breed of writers, inadequately referred to as the ‘second generation of writers’. An accomplished writer whose works include plays, poems, essays, and novels, Osofisan is widely regarded as the most significant playwright in Africa after Soyinka.
Tony E. Afejuku, E.B. Adeleke
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Contemporary Legend: An Insider's View
Folklore, 1991'LATELY . . .' says Heda Jason,' 'something seems to be not quite as it should be with "contemporary legend", cracks and flaws start to show up. At the Sheffield meetings disquieting questions are beginning to be asked.' I have been involved in the Sheffield seminars on contemporary legend since the first seminar in 1982-at one time or another as ...
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A Contemporary Legend from Italy
Journal of Folklore Research: An International Journal of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2008This legend describes how a romance goes awry when a young man proposes marriage by having a diamond engagement ring placed inside the hollow chocolate egg he gives his sweetheart for Easter. I first describe my attempt to discover the origin of the narrative and then I reflect on the reasons for its contemporary popularity.
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2014
Contemporary legends (sometimes called urban legends or simply legends) are stories that spread primarily through informal channels. Traditionally, legends spread by word of mouth, but contemporary legends can travel by other means of individual communication, such as telephone, photocopy, email, or social-media postings. These stories may receive some
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Contemporary legends (sometimes called urban legends or simply legends) are stories that spread primarily through informal channels. Traditionally, legends spread by word of mouth, but contemporary legends can travel by other means of individual communication, such as telephone, photocopy, email, or social-media postings. These stories may receive some
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‘Contemporary Legend’—Cracks or Breakthroughs?
Folklore, 1991I AM grateful to Heda Jason for publicizing the newsletter of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, FOAFtale News, and for directing interested readers to my address. As editor of this publication, I am happy to invite anyone who has an interest in actively circulating legends, whether 'contemporary' 'urban' or whatever, to share ...
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Escalating Danger in Contemporary Legends
Western Folklore, 2002Legends develop and change in relation to changes in the surrounding culture. That, of course, is part of their essence as folklore. Accordingly, legends get updated to reflect new styles: The spiders in the beehive hairdos of the 1950s and early sixties migrated to the hippies' long hair of the late sixties and early seventies, then inhabited the ...
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Burglars and Burglaries in Contemporary Legends
Folklore, 2001Among the several anxieties to which contemporary legends respond, through the narration of events bordering on the believable, is the fear of violation of one's property, especially one's home. In this essay, the notion of "burglars and burglaries" is extended beyond its usual boundaries to include examples from intrusions into the human body, as well
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“Fake News” in the Contemporary Legend Dynamic
Journal of American Folklore, 2018Abstract Reacting to the recent political importance given to “fake news,” folklorists should make use of concepts and methods generated in the past generation to discuss contemporary legends. Instead of using “legend” (or “fake news”) as a tag indicating skepticism, we should see legendry as a communal fact-finding process found among ...
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