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Urban folklore bibliography
Anita Cohen-Williams (IACAGC@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU)
Mon, 4 Dec 1995 10:41:22 -0700
The two best writers on urban and office folklore are Jan Harold Brunvald and
Alan Dundes. Here is a list of their writings. All these sources document
where the urban legends were first found (both in time and space). Dundes'
work has a great collection of office cartoons.
Brunvald, Jan Harold. THE BABY TRAIN AND OTHER LUSTY URBAN LEGENDS (New York:
W.W. Norton, 1993).
--------------------. CURSES, BROILED AGAIN!: THE HOTTEST URBAN LEGENDS (NY:
Norton, 1989).
--------------------. THE MEXICAN PET: MORE "NEW" URBAN LEGENDS AND SOME OLD
FAVORITES (NY: Norton, 1986).
--------------------. THE CHOKING DOBERMAN AND OTHER "NEW" URBAN LEGENDS (NY:
W.W. Norton, 1984)
------------------. THE VANISHING HITCHHIKER: AMERICAN URBAN LEGENDS AND THEIR
MEANINGS (NY: Norton, 1981).
Dundes, Alan. CRACKING JOKES: STUDIES OF SICK HUMOR CYCLES AND STEREOTYPES
(Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1987).
Dundes, Alan, and Carl R. Pagter. NEVER TRY TO TEACH A PIG TO SING: STILL MORE
URBAN FOLKLORE FROM THE PAPERWORK EMPIRE (Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 1991).
-------------------------------- (compilers). WHEN YOU'RE UP TO YOUR ASS IN
ALLIGATORS - MORE URBAN FOLKLORE FROM THE PAPERWORK EMPIRE (Detroit: Wayne
State University Press, 1987).
---------------------------------(compilers). WORK HARD AND YOU SHALL BE
REWARDED: URBAN FOLKLORE FROM THE PAPERWORK EMPIRE (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1978).
---------------------------------(comps). URBAN FOLKLORE FROM THE PAPERWORK
EMPIRE (Austin, TX: American Folore Society, 1975).
Anita Cohen-Williams; Reference Services; Hayden Library
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1006
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