1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464993703321

Autore

Frank Russell <1954->

Titolo

Newslore [[electronic resource] ] : contemporary folklore on the Internet / / Russell Frank

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, Miss., : University Press of Mississippi, c2011

ISBN

1-283-06966-0

9786613069665

1-60473-929-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Disciplina

818/.607

Soggetti

American wit and humor - History and criticism

Folklore - United States

Folklore and the Internet

Social psychology - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE: Greetings from a Desk Chair Traveler; INTRODUCTION: Tiny Revolutions; 1. Where Is the Humor?: ANTI-HILLARY JOKES IN THE NEWS; 2. I Could Throw All of You out the Window: THE DEMOCRATS; 3. When the Going Gets Tough: NEWSLORE OF SEPTEMBER 11; 4. Got Fish?: NEWSLORE OF HURRICANE KATRINA; 5. It Takes a Village Idiot: BUSHLORE; 6. You Can't Raffle Off a Dead Donkey: NEWSLORE OF COMMERCE; 7. Not-So-Heavenly Gates: NEWSLORE OF THE DIGITAL AGE; 8. Diana's Halo: NEWSLORE AS FOLK MEDIA CRITICISM; CONCLUSION: Attention Must Be Paid, But For How Much Longer?

APPENDIX A: A Week In The Life Of My In-Box: A Newslore MiscellanyAPPENDIX B: Collecting and Analyzing Newslore; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. These expressions come in many forms: jokes, urban legends, digitally altered photographs, mock news stories, press releases or interoffice memoranda, parodies of songs, poems, political



and commercial advertisements, movie previews and posters, still or animated cartoons, and short live-action films. In Newslore: Folklore on the Internet and in the News, author Russell Frank offers a snapshot of the items of newslore disseminated via the Internet that gained the widest currency around the turn of the millennium.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996394864403316

Autore

Drexel Jeremias <1581-1638.>

Titolo

The considerations of Drexelius upon death [[electronic resource] ] : For well, sick, and dying persons. Done into English by a Fellow of the Royal Society

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed by S. Bridge, for H. Walwyn, at the Three Legs in the Poultrey, over against the Stocks Market, 1699

Descrizione fisica

[20], 325 [i.e. 335], [1] p., [4] plates of leaves

Soggetti

Death

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dedication reads: To the right worshipful Sir James Houblon, Kt. Alderman of the City of London, and one of their representatives in Parliament. This translation of Drexelius is humbly dedicated by, sir, your worship's devoted servant.

Running title: Considerations upon death.

Identified on UMI microfilm (Early English books, 1641-1700) reel 2004 as Wing D2181A.

An English translation of: De aeternitates considerationes.

With a final advert. leaf.

Reproduction of the original at the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018