Trevor J Blank: 4 books
by Trevor J. Blank
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
Trevor Blank broke new ground for the field of folklore studies in this essay by rationalizing the study of the internet as an important area of expressive vernacular culture. Pushing back against traditionalists who dismissed the digital as simply the domain of technicians and mass media, Blank...
Maryland Legends
Folklore from the Old Line State
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The demon car of Seven Hills Road, the ominous Hell House above the Patapsco River, the mythical Snallygaster of western Maryland--these are the extraordinary tales and bizarre creatures that color Maryland's folklore. The Blue Dog of Port Tobacco faithfully guards his master's gold even in death, and...
Slender Man Is Coming
Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
The essays in this volume explore the menacing figure of Slender Man—the blank-faced, long-limbed bogeyman born of a 2009 Photoshop contest who has appeared in countless horror stories circulated on- and offline among children and young people. Slender Man is arguably the best-known example in circulation...
Tradition in the Twenty-First Century
Locating the Role of the Past in the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In Tradition in the Twenty-First Century, eight diverse contributors explore the role of tradition in contemporary folkloristics. For more than a century, folklorists have been interested in locating sources of tradition and accounting for the conceptual boundaries of tradition, but in the modern...