It is a must for de Lint completists and, actually, for all high-fantasy and folkloristic fiction fans. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Like the blues, pizzica salentina has young practitioners who passionately champion the music, while others in the local arts community view it, at worst, as a useless folkloristic leftover. ❋ Joel Weickgenant (2010)
The meticulous coloring in the oil paintings of Tal Matzliah was reminiscent of folkloristic handicrafts that involve patience, unglamorous work and total dedication. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Her rebellion found expression in weeping and mourning, to express which she used folkloristic elements and quasi-ritualistic objects. ❋ Unknown (2009)
While studying sculpture she also began studying jewelry-making and in the 1960s created copper, silver and gold jewelry incorporating folkloristic motifs. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In the article, Sturman suggests distinguishing between the two main requirements of a dance: on the one hand, it must be pleasant and entertaining, with music, movement and rhythm in the spirit of the time; and on the other hand, it must at all costs preserve the original folkloristic characteristics, with the clear intention of preserving tradition. ❋ Unknown (2009)
For the Talmud this is not a folkloristic superstition but a really serious problem. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Beneath the folkloristic gloss, the poems are replete with allusions to death and destruction. ❋ Unknown (2009)
While others in Fausta's culture participate in spectacular folkloristic weddings -- including a bride with pink balloons on her veil to make it fly up in the sky -- she herself stares ahead. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"Sicko is more of a folkloristic comedy, in which Moore functions as a contempo Mark Twain or Will Rogers, a good-natured, wide-eyed American abroad, a voyeuristic tourist who goes from country to country, seeking comparisons and possible solutions to the critical conditions of the US health system - and way of life." ❋ Unknown (2007)
This chapter is a sophisticated folkloristic analysis of the mother and sons story within the context of Lamentations ❋ Unknown (2009)
As far as the story/stories go as such, variation is precisely what we'd expect in a folkloristic, oral culture. ❋ James F. McGrath (2008)
Dundes: "Projection is one of a number of psychological defense mechanisms which provides an unconscious screen or arena for display of the causes of anxiety and it is for this reason that folkloristic projections are so indispensable" (45). close window ❋ Unknown (2006)
She manipulates the codes of pulp literature, comics, soap operas, pornography and folkloristic novels (Heimatsroman), so that the inherent madness in these ostensibly harmless consumer phenomena shines through. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In Michael Kohlhaas the "real" and the "fantastic" are not compellingly fused but clumsily mixed. ... a further explanation may be that Kleist wanted to appeal to the popular taste, at this peak period of German Romanticism, for folkloristic, fairytale-like material. ... ❋ Unknown (2005)
These pronouncements, reminiscent of certain fatwas emanating elsewhere in the Middle East from fundamentalist ulemas, have usually been dismissed by the general public with a shrug, as folkloristic, politically benign splittings of Talmudic hairs. ❋ Auerbach, Jerold S. (1996)
Tom: Hey, Dick! That guy with the longish hair, [tweed jacket], and neatly groomed facial hair told me that the [Paul Bunyan] [tall tale] was actually a fake!
Dick: You just now figured that out? That dude is a folklorist. He knows these things and is awesome because of it. Now go make me a sandwich. ❋ The Milkman Of Human Kindness (2012)
Tom: Hey, Dick! That guy with the longish hair, [tweed jacket], and neatly groomed facial hair told me that the [Paul Bunyan] [tall tale] was actually a fake!
Dick: You just now figured that out? That dude is a folklorist. He knows these things and is awesome because of it. Now go make me a sandwich. ❋ The Milkman Of Human Kindness (2012)
