Contemporary Legends is a subgenre of legend within urban folklore consisting of ostensibly true narrative accounts set in a recent or modern social context, typically localized to familiar places and persons, that circulate informally in multiple traditional variants and articulate current cultural fears, norms, and uncertainties.
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Legend and belief: dialectics of a folklore genre
Choice Reviews Online · 2002 · 96 citations
Death by Folklore: Ostension, Contemporary Legend, and Murder
Bill Ellis · Western Folklore · 1989 · 89 citations
Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre
Bill Ellis, Linda Dégh · Western Folklore · 2001 · 68 citations · Full text
Newslore: contemporary folklore on the Internet
Choice Reviews Online · 2011 · 60 citations
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- LSLynne S. McNeill
2 publications · 60 citations
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Durham University
Durham, United Kingdom
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2 publications
64 citations
University of Hertfordshire
Hatfield, United Kingdom
1 h-index
1 publications
44 citations
European University at Saint Petersburg
St Petersburg, Russia
1 publications
10 citations
Institute of Russian Literature
Saint Petersburg, Russia
1 publications
10 citations
Meertens Institute
Amsterdam, Netherlands
1 publications
13 citations
University of Groningen
Groningen, The Netherlands
1 publications
13 citations
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- Western Folklore
4 publications · 201 citations
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- Journal of American Folklore
JAF · 4 publications · 72 citations
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- Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 4 publications · 219 citations
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- Folklore
2 publications · 62 citations
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- Social Science Computer Review
SSCR · 1 publications · 32 citations
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