Heale jutule pole tõde takistuseks. Jan Harold Brunvandi linnalegendid kakskümmend aastat hiljem

Abstract

Jan Harold Brunvand has been the leading researcher of contemporary urban folklore since his 1981 The Vanishing Hitchhiker. Presently Professor Emeritus at the University of Utah, Brunvand has extensively collected urban folklore and scraps of media, which may likely become folklore. He has also published, categorised and explained numerous folklore texts on the subject, but has still remained true to the comparative-historical approach. His work under discussion, The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story contains 13 chapters discussing specific narrative plots, including a chapter by the pre-eminent folklorist's son Eric Brunvand, an information technologist.