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Kovačević, Ivan. "Tolerance or Assimilation: The Legends of the Chinese Restaurant and "The Gypsy's Tavern"." Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 4, no. 3 (2009): 67–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.21301/eap.v4i3.4.

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Studying urban legends, the French folklorist Véronique Campion-Vincent posed the question of whether some of the more recent legends preach tolerance. The "elevator incident" or "swallowed ticket" legends display a different attitude to Others from that found in classic xenophobic urban legends. This different attitude is also to be found in two legends recorded in Serbia, namely, the legend of the Chinese restaurant and the legend of "The Gypsy's Tavern". An analysis of the two legends shows that the ambiguity of "tolerance legends" does not arise from the fact that they speak about a xenoph

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Trung, Nguyen Thanh, and Nguyen Diem Quynh. "The Motif of Vengeful Spirits in Japanese Urban Legends." Journal of Exceptional Multidisciplinary Research 2, no. 1 (2025): 47–54. https://doi.org/10.69739/jemr.v2i1.324.

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While urban legends have become increasingly widespread with the development of the Internet, systematic research on urban legends, especially in regions with a prominent urban legend culture like Japan, remains scarce. Aiming to clarify the crucial element of ‘motif’ within narratives, this paper focuses on studying the motif of vengeful spirits in Japanese urban legends. It does so by identifying the characteristics of the vengeful spirit motif in relation to the cultural characteristics of Japanese urban legends and by examining how this motif is artistically expressed through characters, p

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Marilyn Reizbaum. "Urban Legends." Éire-Ireland 45, no. 1 (2010): 242–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/eir.2010.0008.

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Eppler, Jeffrey. "Urban legends." CJEM 5, no. 01 (2003): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1481803500008022.

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Kvartič, Ambrož. "Urban Legends as an Emic Category." Fabula 66, no. 1-2 (2025): 109–32. https://doi.org/10.1515/fabula-2025-0008.

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Abstract The second half of the twentieth century saw important paradigmatic changes occur in anthropology, ethnology, and other humanities disciplines, shifting the focus of attention from rural worlds to urban environments. Marking this shift in folkloristics, the urban legend was proposed. Despite its early popularity among folklore scholars, evidence kept piling up that the narratives signified by this term are not necessarily bound to urban areas, because of which the term’s analytical value, and consequently its use in scholarly debate, gradually declined. Nevertheless, following the lar

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Kovačević, Ivan. "Symbolic Interactionism, Mass Panics and Urban Legends." Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 5, no. 2 (2010): 99–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.21301/eap.v5i2.5.

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The constructionist approach to social problems has developed a thesis about mass panics and urban legends as "unconstructed social problems". This thesis, advanced by the American sociologist Joel Best, and his analysis of the urban legend of Halloween sadism, have provided the model for studying three mass panics and two urban legends. The three panics in question are the mass exodus from Kraljevo because of a prophesy that the town would be destroyed in an earthquake, the mass fear of body parts thieves in three villages in Srem, and the panic over the appearance of a cannibal sect in the t

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Napiórkowski, Mateusz. "Legendy miejskie netloru jako wyraz niepokojów współczesnego świata na przykładzie legend internetowych." Literatura i Kultura Popularna 24 (April 18, 2019): 357–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0867-7441.24.22.

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Netlore urban legends as an expression of unrestin the modern worldThe article discusses the topic of urban legends on the Internet. The author presents the contemporary context in which urban legends function, paying attention to the importance of social unrest in shaping and disseminating these stories. Furthermore, the author presents other forms related to urban legends circulating on the internet, such as chain letters and creepypasta. Using the example of netlore legends, the author presents areas in which the anxiety arising from the development of modern technology can freely spread —

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Tree, Jean E. Fox, and Mary Susan Weldon. "Retelling Urban Legends." American Journal of Psychology 120, no. 3 (2007): 459. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20445414.

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Butler, Brandon. "Urban Copyright Legends." Research Library Issues, no. 270 (June 1, 2010): 16–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.29242/rli.270.3.

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Rekdal, Ole Bjørn. "Academic urban legends." Social Studies of Science 44, no. 4 (2014): 638–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312714535679.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Urban legends"

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Feger, Claudia. "Urban Legends - Wie moderne Mythen entstehen." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2005. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:ch1-200501763.

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Miller, Amanda. "A Well Excavated Grave." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1528122681882913.

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L'Official, Pete Thomas. "Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13065024.

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"Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin" examines the construction of the South Bronx in the American imagination during the 1970s and 1980s--a time when the South Bronx was synonymous with the failures of urbanism. The project attempts a multidisciplinary excavation of the cultural manifestations of urban ruin as articulated through the histories, literatures, and visual arts produced within and inspired by the ruins of the Bronx. The dissertation contends that Bronx ruins offered a site for visual artists, writers, and photographers to create new ways of understanding the

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Stubbersfield, Joseph Michael. "Content biases in the cultural transmission and evolution of urban legends." Thesis, Durham University, 2014. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10768/.

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This thesis examines the role of cognitive content biases in cultural transmission. The concept of cognitive content biases suggests that humans preferentially attend to, recall and transmit certain types of information over others, and that this bias influences the transmission and evolution of cultural artefacts. A number of studies are presented which primarily use genuine urban legends as material. In using ‘real world’ material such as urban legends these studies expand our knowledge of how content biases operate and shed light on the cultural success of these legends. Methodology include

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Costello, Lincoln John James. "Retells and Remakes: Understanding How Horror Urban Legends Change Over Time." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104860.

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This study seeks to understand how horror urban legends undergo changes over time and the possible reasons for their alterations. Past researchers have yet to analyze the shifts that have occurred within the retellings of these dark tales, and through this analysis, light will be shed onto what truly affects the media's storytelling behavior. Building upon meme theory, this study will use narrative and historical context analyses to uncover the objectives, narrative elements and temporal environments surrounding 10 replications of three horror urban legend memes over the past century. This res

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Elliott, Devin Michael. "West Virginia Urban Legends and Their Impact on Cultures Both Local and Abroad." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1621995466903678.

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Lopes, Carlos Renato. "Lendas urbanas na internet: entre a ordem do discurso e o acontecimento enunciativo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-04122007-102908/.

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Esta tese é dedicada ao estudo de narrativas do gênero lendas urbanas dentro de uma perspectiva discursiva. Com base em um corpus composto de mensagens trocadas em uma comunidade virtual sobre o tema na Internet no período entre 2005 e 2006, busca-se fundamentalmente investigar os modos pelos quais tais narrativas se situam, enquanto enunciados, entre uma ordem de discurso dotada de uma certa sistematicidade e uma instância de acontecimento único, materializada na enunciação. Propõe-se a reflexão de que as lendas urbanas, sendo geradas no seio da vida cotidiana e trazendo elementos que fazem p

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Enríquez-Soltero, Gonzalo. "Deeper into the labyrinth : a study of the impact of risk narratives on culture, based on two urban legends spread by email in Mexico City (2005-2007)." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/58549/.

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Despite the late stage of modernity we live in, urban legends, an already prolific form of folklore, have become even more prone to retransmission within the internet. This thesis aims to understand why and how these contemporary folk tales are so widely believed and disseminated. Two crime legends that spread in Mexico City through email from 2005 to 2007 will be studied as narratives that address some of the most pressing problems as perceived by a given population, engaging human beings principally by helping to make sense of hostile environments, binding together human groups through fear

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Bennett, Gillian. "Aspects of supernatural belief, memorate and legend in a contemporary urban environment." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1985. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1891/.

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The aim of the study is to move away from the antiquarian bias of previous work on the folklore of the supernatural in order to shed light on present day attitudes and concepts. In the past, folkiorists have done very little to collect their own culture, or even to recognise its forms. This has been particularly true of British work on ghost traciitions - the tendency of all but a very few scholars has 'been to retire to the library and compile collections of legends. The present study eschews this approach in favour of fieldwork. There are three main aspects of the work. The early chapters pr

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Rogers, Shae. "Have You Heard About Hairy-Armed Killers, Defiled Steaks and Contaminated Condiments? Affect, Interpersonal Relationships and Urban Legend Transmission." Thesis, Griffith University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367088.

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The aim of the present thesis is to test a model of urban legend transmission by examining patterns of transmission, the interpersonal functions of transmission, and the role of affect. Urban legends are virulent and persist despite efforts to prevent, cease, or reduce their transmission. The thesis reviews existing explanations for urban legend transmission before presenting the current model to be tested. The model in the present thesis incorporates core social motives (Fiske, 2000, 2004), conversational pragmatics (Grice, 1975), and rationality of purpose (Evans, Over, & Manktelow, 1993) to

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Books on the topic "Urban legends"

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Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting. Urban legends. CBC Transcripts, 1987.

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Lynette, Rachel. Urban legends. KidHaven Press, 2008.

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Stone, Steven. Urban legends. Markosia Enterprises, 2012.

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Lukmaryo, Billy. Urban legends. Dar! Mizan, 2013.

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Starchman, Bryan. Urban legends: American folklore. Eldridge Publishing Company, 2011.

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Mikkelson, Barbara. Urban legends reference pages. Barbara and David P. Mikkelson, 2004.

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Clay, Kathryn. Top 10 urban legends. Blazers, 2012.

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Brunvand, Jan Harold. Encyclopedia of Urban Legends. ABC-CLIO, 2008.

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Koven, Mikel J. Films, folklore, and urban legends. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

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Leong, Sandra. Singapore urban legends: Myths & mysteries. SPH Magazines Pte. Ltd., 2005.

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Book chapters on the topic "Urban legends"

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Guerini, Marco, and Carlo Strapparava. "Credible or Incredible? Dissecting Urban Legends." In Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54903-8_37.

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Aspray, William, and James W. Cortada. "From Debunking Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking." In From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22952-8_2.

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Aspray, William, and James W. Cortada. "Urban Legends and Rumors Concerning the September 11 Attacks." In From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22952-8_3.

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Aspray, William, and James W. Cortada. "The Concept of Scrutiny." In From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22952-8_1.

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Aspray, William, and James W. Cortada. "Debunking as Hobby, Entertainment, Scholarly Pursuit, and Public Service." In From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22952-8_4.

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Aspray, William, and James W. Cortada. "Recent Political Fact-Checking." In From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22952-8_5.

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Aspray, William, and James W. Cortada. "Where Do We Go Next?" In From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22952-8_6.

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Tanner, Ken. "Urban Legends, Conspiracies, and Other Perversions of the Truth." In Common Sense. Apress, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4153-9_5.

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Prasad-Aleyamma, Mythri. "Territorial Legends: Politics of Indigeneity, Migration and Urban Citizenship in Pasighat." In Exploring Urban Change in South Asia. Springer India, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3616-0_10.

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Mann, Craig Ian. "America, Down the Toilet: Urban Legends, American Society and Alligator." In Animal Horror Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137496393_7.

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Conference papers on the topic "Urban legends"

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Carvalho, Luis. "The Facts and a Few Urban Legends Too around Flow-accelerated Corrosion." In CORROSION 2017. NACE International, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5006/c2017-09165.

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Abstract The incidence of flow-accelerated corrosion, commonly known as FAC, continues unabated throughout many industries. FAC failures, sometimes catastrophic, are not limited to gas-fired combined-cycle power plants where many failures have occurred, especially in the past 20 years. It has also been reported extensively in conventional fossil power plants, nuclear energy units as well as the hydrocarbon, chemical processing industries and pulp & paper plants. FAC is a growing phenomenon and an insidious type of failure despite industry efforts to mitigate it. The author, an engineer who

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Voichici, Oana. "Anyone For A Meat Pie? Accidental Cannibalism In Romanian Urban Legends." In 2nd Central and Eastern European LUMEN International Conference - Multidimensional Education and Professional Development. Ethical Values. Cognitive-crcs, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2017.07.03.103.

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Saptanto, Deswandito, and Ratih Nurjanah. "The Comparation And Fundamental Purpose Of Existence Between Indonesian Versus American Urban Legends In The Movies." In Proceedings of the 10th UNNES Virtual International Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation, ELTLT 2021, 14-15 August 2021, Semarang, Indonesia. EAI, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.14-8-2021.2317621.

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Campi, Massimiliano, Valeria Cera, and Marika Falcone. "Sperimentazione di LiDAR a stato solido per comparti urbani fortificati. Il caso studio dei vicoli saraceni di Forio d’Ischia." In FORTMED2025 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. edUPV. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4995/fortmed2025.2025.20341.

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Since ancient times, the island of Ischia, the largest of the Phlegrean Islands to the west of the Gulf of Naples, has been considered a land of great interest both for its strategic position in the Mediterranean Sea and for its rich landscapes and architecture. Among these distinctive features of the island, it is worth mentioning the unique urban layout of the Saracen alleys that developed around the watchtowers, which still characterize the village of Forio d’Ischia today. This defensive need, common to many Mediterranean locations, has led to distinctive urban and architectural outcomes on

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Jucu, Ioan Sebastian. "REPRESENTING CITIES, PLACES AND CULTURES THROUGH MUSIC TOURISM AND ICONIC MUSIC LEGENDS: A SHORT GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF CELINE DION�S MUSIC AND TRAVEL." In 9th SWS International Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES - ISCSS 2022. SGEM WORLD SCIENCE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35603/sws.iscss.2022/s14.122.

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Cities, cultures, tourism and music have always been connected through the close relations between urban places as music venues, tourists and legendary musicians which perform to largest audiences. This paper aims to briefly examine the most important relations between music, tourism, cities and iconic musicians considering as a case in point, one of the most emblematic artists in the contemporary global popular culture - the iconic songstress Celine Dion. The article unveils the most important features which connect places with different cultures, with the fans as music tourists and with the

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Gibson, Nic. "Urban Legend or Best Practice." In XML London 2017 Conference. XML London, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14337/xmllondon17.gibson01.

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SAMI, MUHAMMAD GOLAM, and SHAUNI PRIYAM SIKDER. "COMMERCIAL EVOLUTION OF WATERFRONT: A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF LAND USE PATTERN & TREND OF COMMERCIAL CENTERS IN KHULNA RESPECTING BAROBAZAR, KHULNA." In 13th International Research Conference - FARU 2020. Faculty of Architecture Research Unit (FARU), University of Moratuwa, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31705/faru.2020.19.

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Although Khulna's actual history is not about more than 200 years, but it has a 2000 years settlement and commercial history. Khulna was a part of Ganaridai, Vanga, Jessore dynasty, Rarh (South Bengal) in different periods. The connection of rivers always made a blessing for Khulna for water transportation to accelerate trade and commerce. According to Ptolemy, the ancient Gangaridai had an ancient port located in greater Jessore [1,557]. Some archaic incidents, verses, and legends of Mani-Rishis (Ancient Indian Scholars) proved the old settlement and commercial style. The chronological evolut

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Krasovec, Aleksandra N. "“KALEIDOSCOPIC” NOVEL OF JOSIP OSTI IN THE ASPECT OF TRANSCULTURALITY." In 50th International Philological Conference in Memory of Professor Ludmila Verbitskaya (1936–2019). St. Petersburg State University, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288063183.10.

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The Slovenian-Bosnian poet, writer, essayist, literary critic, translator and editor Josip Osti (1945–2021) was born in Sarajevo, lived and worked in Slovenia since 1990. Being a recognized poet in his homeland, writing in Croatian, one of the largest translators of Slovenian literature into Serbo-Croatian, since 1997 he has been writing in Slovenian. The transcultural aspects of Josip Osti’s literary works, both poetry collections and novels, are a unique phenomenon. In our study, we turned to the novels of Josip Osti, namely his trilogy — Ghosts of the House of Heinrich Böll (2016), In Front

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Cenko, Alex, Ronald Deslandes, Marnix Dillenius, and Michael Stanek. "Unsteady Weapon Bay Aerodynamics - Urban Legend or Flight Clearance Nightmare." In 46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2008-189.

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Schwarz, Andrew, Colleen Schwarz, and Tracey Rizzuto. "Examining the Urban Legend of Common Method Bias: Nine Common Errors and Their Impact." In 2008 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/hicss.2008.155.

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