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ISBN-13: 9781666913750
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
By Petr Janecek
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Local release date: 29/11/2022
Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 246 pages Weight: 480g
Categories: Popular culture [JFCA]Folklore, myths & legends [JFHF]Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography [JHMC]

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Google Preview: Spring Man: A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture deconstructs the nationalistic myth of Spring Man that was created after the Second World War in visual culture and literature and presents his original form as an ambiguous ghostly denizen of oral culture. Petr Janecek analyzes the archetypal character, social context, and cultural significance of this fascinating phenomenon with help of dozens of accounts provided by period eyewitnesses, oral narratives, and other sources. At the same time, the author illustrates the international origin of the tales in the originally British migratory legend of Spring-heeled Jack that reaches back to the second third of the 19th century and draws parallels between the Czech myth of spring man and similar urban phantom narratives popular in the 1910s Russia, 1940s U.S. and Slovakia, 1950s Germany, as well as other parts of the world.; Petr Janecek is associate professor at the Institute of Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University.; Introduction - Urban Phantom between Comparative Folkloristics and Ethnology Chapter 1. The Birth of a Legend - Spring Man in Czech Folklore and Oral History Chapter 2. Phantoms of the Industrial Age - The Cultural Evolution of Spring Man Chapter 3. The Social and Cultural Functions of Urban Demonology Chapter 4. A Superhero for Every Regime - Spring Man in Visual Culture and Literature; Google Preview content