ISBN:
9781666913750
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 213 Seiten
Series Statement:
Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Janeček, Petr, 1978- Spring man
DDC:
398.209437
Keywords:
Folklore
;
Folklore and nationalism
Abstract:
"This book traces the creation and circulation of the heroic myth of Spring Man, legendary Czech phantom of the Second World War often described as a superhero who fights against the Nazis, through national and international popular culture from the late nineteenth-century through the late twentieth-century"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction - Urban Phantom between Comparative Folkloristics and Ethnology -- The Birth of a Legend - Spring Man in Czech Folklore and Oral History -- Phantoms of the Industrial Age - The Cultural Evolution of Spring Man -- The Social and Cultural Functions of Urban Demonology -- A Superhero for Every Regime - Spring Man in Visual Culture and Literature -- Conclusion.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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