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Identity and Identification in Campus Lore [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2023
As a form of modern urban legend, school legends have become a symbol of campus culture and are spread through the internet and orally. These school legends, which are based on some real historical elements and are mixed with a bit of spirituality and ...
Wei Jiachen
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Conspiracy Theories as Urban Legends with a Paranoid Matrix / Paranoyak Bir Matrix ile Şehir Efsanelerine Dönüşen Komplo Teorileri [PDF]

open access: yesFolklor/Edebiyat, 2023
In this paper I seek to interpret, categorise conspiracy theories in relation to urban legends with a paranoid matrix, with the starting point being mainly the interpretation of the paranoid nature of conspiracy theories systematised by Jack Z ...
Suzana Marjanić
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Urban Legends – American and/or Global Folklore

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2007
Development of modern technology, foremostly that of the internet, has made feasible an, up to now, unimaginable reciprocity in the field of anthropological research.
Ivan Kovačević
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Tolerance or Assimilation: The Legends of the Chinese Restaurant and "The Gypsy's Tavern"

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2009
Studying urban legends, the French folklorist Véronique Campion-Vincent posed the question of whether some of the more recent legends preach tolerance. The "elevator incident" or "swallowed ticket" legends display a different attitude to Others from that
Ivan Kovačević
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The transformation of contemporary analyses of oral folklore: Fairy tale versus fantasy [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2010
The study focuses on contemporary forms of folklore and their relationship to literary forms like Fantasy, Sci-fi, Horror and Fantasy Game. The first problem is the specification of the terms and the classification of the internal structure of these ...
Otčenášek Jaroslav
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Cokelore (Fine and Best)

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2008
Urban legends as a part of folklore frequently refer to large corporations creating what is known as the „mercantile legends“. „Coca-cola“ as one of those companies that has drawn the biggest attention of the folklore thought, for whose staple product ...
Ivan Kovačević
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Hood Dreams

open access: yesThe International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, 2022
The poem seeks to express the tension within the Black community to be authentic and true to your family/friends without misleading others.  The frequency of misinformation being perpetuated in minority communities happens all too frequently to the ...
Michelle E. Jones
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El terror, una nueva dimensión de la literatura realista

open access: yesAmerika, 2023
The article highlights a new trend of political terror in the narratives of Enríquez, Schweblin, Bazterrica and Lamberti. They cross horror with gothic literature, the sensual and the political violence, folkloric myths and urban legends.
Sergio Olguín
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