"Exploring the menacing figure of Slender Man, the blank-faced, long-limbed bogeyman born of a Photoshop contest, who has appeared in horror stories circulated on- and offline among young people. An unprecedented folkloric take, analyzing him within contemporary legend studies, …
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This text presents an historical examination of political fact-checking, highlighting how this is part of a larger phenomenon of online scrutiny that manifests itself in multiple forms. Reflecting the long history of "fake facts" in America, the book discusses important developm…
Monsters with iron teeth
by Bennett, Gillian, Smith, Paul, International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, University of Sheffield., Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, International Conference on Contemporary Legend, Sheffield, England)
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Monsters with iron teeth
by Bennett, Gillian, International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, University of Sheffield., Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, International Conference on Contemporary Legend, Sheffield, England), Smith, Paul S., (Paul Stuart)
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Monsters with iron teeth
by Bennett, Gillian, Smith, Paul, International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, University of Sheffield., Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, International Conference on Contemporary Legend, Sheffield, England)
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While working in Africa, anthropologist Julien Bonhomme encountered an astonishing phenomenon: people being accused of stealing or shrinking the genitals of strangers on the simple occasion of a handshake on the street. As he soon discovered, these accusations can have dramatic …
While working in Africa, anthropologist Julien Bonhomme encountered an astonishing phenomenon: people being accused of stealing or shrinking the genitals of strangers on the simple occasion of a handshake on the street. As he soon discovered, these accusations can have dramatic …
While working in Africa, anthropologist Julien Bonhomme encountered an astonishing phenomenon: people being accused of stealing or shrinking the genitals of strangers on the simple occasion of a handshake on the street. As he soon discovered, these accusations can have dramatic …
"This book divides into two basic parts. In Chapters 1 and 2 I discuss historical examples of "rumor" discourse and suggest whey many blacks have--for good reason--channeled beliefs about race relations into familiar formulae, ones developed as early as the time of the first con…
