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Title: Last lecture Todays lecture


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Last lecture Todays lecture
  • A bit on Zipes and Soviet cartoon with many
    themes found in urban legends
  • Historical legends, Russian and American
  • Contemporary urban legend clusters
  • Interpreting American legends
  • As a cluster
  • Over time
  • Russian legends of the post-Soviet type

2
Historical legend review
  • Historical legends are about the past
  • But told NOW
  • As such they reflect CONTEMPORARY issues
  • Stenka Razin as rebel
  • Stenka Razin as treasure spirit anti
    capitalism and materialism message (as well as
    other messages)

3
Contemporary legends and current concerns pet
stories
  • Microwave
  • Chinese restaurant
  • Baby sitter on drugs
  • Cat substitute Richmond and Moscow
  • Dead pet series
  • Cat and salmon at garden party
  • Cat rescue
  • Catapult cat

4
Pet legends interpreted
  • Trickster material and pet/child link
  • Sometimes direct - microwave
  • Sometimes oblique
  • Pet/food substitution
  • Child/food substitution
  • Pet/child similarities
  • Food behavior
  • Special link infant-cat
  • Biological basis for this
  • This link has own set of legends, many taken as
    true

5
One interpretation of pet legends
  • Do these legends talk about child abuse?
  • What do they say?
  • Expression of desire
  • Expression of fear
  • Focus on children Baby on board
  • Parody Grandma in trunk (plays on legend)
  • Vogue magazine and baby as the ultimate accessory

6
Multiple functions of legends
  • Cat at garden party is also story of greed
  • Other takes on greed
  • Red Velvet Cake
  • Mrs. Fields Cookie recipe
  • Cheap imported goods
  • Carpets on Emmet Street
  • Imported clothes
  • Christmas cactus

7
Related to
  • Dreadful contaminations including of the body
  • Ants in the face
  • Black widow spider in boot, laundry
  • Syringe in the bottle
  • Horrible ingredients in fast food
  • Chilean grapes
  • Horrible additions to Halloween candy
  • Syringes on beaches (please note reaction
    children wear rubber shoes)

8
Development of a legend topic over time sex
example
  • Early threat of sex like stories in Vanishing
    Hitchhiker Boyfriends death, parking and the
    escaped mental patient interpreted by Dundes
  • Sexual freedom and punishment for infidelity
    superglue, Cadillac, Porsche, time and temp.
  • Self-gratification and dangers of same various
    things get stuck
  • Male version vacuum cleaner, light bulb
  • Female version Coke bottle
  • Other uses of Coke and scientific testing of same

9
More sex, more time
  • Making sex at home more exciting - Batman
  • Dumb blond joke as parallel
  • Punishment for recreational sex, internet sex
  • Assorted nudes, blond and other
  • Nude surprise party
  • Lady doing laundry
  • UVA version
  • Woman skiing and stopping to pee
  • Nude in RV and the airline version

10
More change over time
  • Threat to males in vanishing hitchhiker versus
    threat to males in purloined kidney
  • Change in female vanity stories
  • Beehive hairdo
  • Super diet pills
  • Tanning salon
  • Male vanity is cucumber/sausage in disco pants

11
Russian urban legends
  • Dont buy foreign goods
  • The doll
  • Curtains
  • Dont be attracted by the wealth of the past
    icons versus gold statue things that belong to
    OTHERS
  • Parallel to treasure stories, Ivan Kupalo and
    flowering fern
  • Russian food contamination Bushovye nozhki
    chicken imported from US
  • Contrast to US dont buy imported goods
  • Compare to New Russians jokes
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