Bodies: sex, violence, disease, and death in contemporary legend
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1. Verfasser: Bennett, Gillian (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jackson, Miss. University Press of Mississippi c2005
Ausgabe:1st ed
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Animals inside : bosom serpents and alimentary amphibians -- Poison and honey -- Aids aggressors : mirrors, caskets, and needles -- Killing the prodigal son -- Dispossessed : the body snatchers -- Blood and babies
Because they are so often told as news, contemporary legends force us to reevaluate life as we know it. They confront us with macabre, fantastic, horrific, or hilarious characters and events that seem to come straight out of myths and folktales, but are presented as present day events. The difficulty is that it is not at all easy to decide whether these often disturbing stories should be treated as reliable or dismissed as fantasy. The legends explored in this book are some of the most bizarre, gruesome, and politically sensitive stories in the contemporary legend canon. At any moment a body m
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 313 p.)
ISBN:9781429460538
1429460539
160473065X
9781604730654
9781578067893
1578067898

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