[PDF] Tales Rumors And Gossip eBook

Author : Gail de Vos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 1996-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0313069875

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Explore the stories and themes that capture the imagination of young people today. A sampling of tales is organized into broad subject areas, such as contaminated food, threats to children, and satanic legends, and the tales are analyzed according to function, structure, and international variants. De Vos also discusses film and literary adaptions and offers suggestions for adapting tales for the junior high and high school curriculum. Explore the stories and themes that capture the imagination of young people today. After a fascinating overview and discussion of contemporary legends (commonly referred to as modern urban legends and often told as true), de Vos examines them in their relationship to rumors and gossip, ostension (acting out the legends), the role of the media in formulation and dissemination, and related tales (e.g., literary horror tales). A sampling of tales is organized into broad subject areas, such as contaminated food, threats to children, and satanic legends, and the legends are analyzed according to function, structure, and international variants. De Vos discusses some of the literary and visual adaptations in popular culture and offers suggestions for adapting tales for the junior high and high school curriculum. A fascinating professional book, this is a great resource to use with young adults.

Author : Jean-Noël Kapferer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 35,17 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780887383250

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Deals with aspects of rumor and gossip

Author : Ken Caillat
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,52 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1118282361

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Inside the making of one of the biggest-selling albums of all time: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for thirty-one weeks and won the Album of the Year Grammy. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the twenty-fifth greatest album of all time and the hit TV series Glee devoted an entire episode to songs from Rumours, introducing it to a new generation. Now, for the first time, Ken Caillat, the album's co-producer, tells the full story of what really went into making Rumours—from the endless partying and relationship dramas to the creative struggles to write and record "You Make Loving Fun," "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way," "The Chain," and other timeless tracks. Tells the fascinating, behind-the-music story of the making of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, written by the producer who saw it all happen Filled with new and surprising details, such as Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's screaming match while recording "You Make Loving Fun," how the band coped with the pressures of increasing success, how the master tape nearly disintegrated, and the incredible attention paid to even the tiniest elements of songs, from Lindsey playing a chair to Mick breaking glass Includes eighty black-and-white photographs

Author : Luise White
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520922298

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During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throats cut so their blood drained into huge buckets. In Kampala, the police were said to abduct Africans and keep them in pits, where their blood was sucked. Luise White presents and interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did. Using gossip and rumor as historical sources in their own right, she assesses the place of such evidence, oral and written, in historical reconstruction. White conducted more than 130 interviews for this book and did research in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia. In addition to presenting powerful, vivid stories that Africans told to describe colonial power, the book presents an original epistemological inquiry into the nature of historical truth and memory, and into their relationship to the writing of history.

Author : Anushka Ravishankar
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Gossip
ISBN : 9781770492806

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In the village of Baddbaddpur, the people like to tell tales, "so tall that if you put them one on top of the other, they would reach the stars." Pandurang is so dour that he can make milk turn sour. One day he coughs up a feather. As the story of Pandurang's feather is passed from one person to another it grows and grows and grows until it can hardly be recognized. And that's when the story weaves its magic on the ill-tempered Pandurang. An international version of "broken telephone" this is a funny cautionary tale about the nature of rumors.

Author : Frank J. Sileo
Publisher : Magination Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,68 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 9781433827204

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Gives examples of serious and silly gossip, leading to what hurtful gossip feels like, how it is like bullying, and what to do to stop it. Ages 4-8.

Author : Anne Oakley
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
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This book is a nod to Mad Women; the men who loved them, the ones who destroyed them, and the hens who gossip.

Author : Joseph Epstein
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0618721940

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A dishy, incisive exploration of gossip--from celebrity rumors to literary romans à clef, from personal sniping to political slander--by one of our "great essayists" (David Brooks) To his successful examinations of some of the most powerful forces in modern life--envy, ambition, snobbery, friendship--the keen observer and critic Joseph Epstein now adds Gossip. No trivial matter, despite its reputation, gossip is eternal and necessary. Himself a master of the art, Epstein serves up delightful mini-biographies of the Great Gossips of the Western World along with many choice bits from his own experience. He also makes a powerful case that gossip has morphed from its old-fashioned best--clever, mocking, a great private pleasure--to a corrosive new-school version, thanks to the reach of the mass media and the Internet. Gossip has even invaded politics and journalism, causing unsubstantiated information to be presented as fact. Contemporary gossip claims to reveal truth, but as Epstein shows, it's our belief in truth itself that may be destroyed by gossip. Written in his trademark erudite and witty style, Gossip captures the complexity of this immensely entertaining subject.