Utah State University Press: 175 books
Folklore Rules
A Fun, Quick, and Useful Introduction to the Field of Academic Folklore Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Folklore Rules is a brief introduction to the foundational concepts in folklore studies for beginning students. Designed to give essential background on the current study of folklore and some of the basic concepts and questions used when analyzing folklore, this short, coherent, and approachable handbook...
Hospitality and Authoring
An Essay for the English Profession
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Hospitality and Authoring, a sequel to the Haswells’ 2010 volume Authoring, attempts to open the path for hospitality practice in the classroom, making a strong argument for educational use and offering an initial map of the territory for teachers and authors.
Hospitality is a social and...
Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition
Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies, using the lens of “threshold concepts”—concepts that are critical for epistemological participation in a discipline. This edition focuses on the working definitions of thirty-seven...
by Noriko Reider
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
In Japanese culture, oni are ubiquitous supernatural creatures who play important roles in literature, lore, and folk belief. Characteristically ambiguous, they have been great and small, mischievous and dangerous, and ugly and beautiful over their long history. Here, author Noriko Reider presents...
Folk Groups And Folklore Genres
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1986
Oring's introductory folklore text consists of a series of essays by leading scholars that give the student a solid sense of major folklore topics and interpretive techniques. Since 1986, when it was first published, this book has met the need for good instructional material at a time of tremendous...
Slender Man Is Coming
Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
The essays in this volume explore the menacing figure of Slender Man—the blank-faced, long-limbed bogeyman born of a 2009 Photoshop contest who has appeared in countless horror stories circulated on- and offline among children and young people. Slender Man is arguably the best-known example in circulation...
Folk Culture in the Digital Age
The Emergent Dynamics of Human Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Smart phones, tablets, Facebook, Twitter, and wireless Internet connections are the latest technologies to have become entrenched in our culture. Although traditionalists have argued that computer-mediated communication and cyberspace are incongruent with the study of folklore, Trevor J. Blank sees...
Folklore and the Internet
Vernacular Expression in a Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
A pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. These stuidies show that folk culture, sustained by a new and evolving vernacular, has been a key, since the Internet's beginnings, to language, practice, and interaction online. Users of...
Tradition in the Twenty-First Century
Locating the Role of the Past in the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In Tradition in the Twenty-First Century, eight diverse contributors explore the role of tradition in contemporary folkloristics. For more than a century, folklorists have been interested in locating sources of tradition and accounting for the conceptual boundaries of tradition, but in the modern...
Great Basin National Park
A Guide to the Park and Surrounding Area
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
Great Basin National Park is in large part a high-alpine park, but it sits in one of America’s driest, least populated, and most isolated deserts. That contrast is one facet of the diversity that characterizes this region. Within and outside the park are phenomenal landscape features, biotic wonders,...
Plural Wife
The Life Story of Mabel Finlayson Allred
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Mabel Finlayson Allred was a wife of Rulon Allred, leader of the Apostolic United Brethren, one of the major groups of fundamentalist Mormons who, since about the 1930s, have practiced plural marriage as separatists from the mainstream Latter-day Saints Church.
Mabel’s autobiography maintains...
Woman Of The River
Georgie White Clark, Whitewater Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Georgie White Clark-adventurer, raconteur, eccentric--first came to know the canyons of the Colorado River by swimming portions of them with a single companion. She subsequently hiked and rafted portions of the canyons, increasingly sharing her love of the Colorado River with friends and acquaintances....
Haunting Experiences
Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007
Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based...
by Moira Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
In Practically Joking, the first full-length study of the practical joke, Moira Marsh examines the value, artistry, and social significance of this ancient and pervasive form of vernacular expression.
Though they are sometimes dismissed as the lowest form of humor, practical jokes come from...