Newslore Contemporary Folklore on the Internet |
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| Author:
| Frank, Russell |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61703-943-0 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | University Press of Mississippi
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. Russell Frank offers a snapshot of the items of newslore disseminated via the Internet that gained the widest currency around the turn of the millennium. Among the newsmakers lampooned in e-mails and on the Web were the Clintons, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. Russell Frank offers a snapshot of the items of newslore disseminated via the Internet that gained the widest currency around the turn of the millennium. Among the newsmakers lampooned in e-mails and on the Web were the Clintons, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.