Sentence examples for folklore folk from inspiring English sources

For folk art in the broader sense, see also folk dance; folk music; folklore; folk literature.

(Joyce did not use such a note in his own poems, as Thomas Kettle noted in a review of his first collection: "There is no trace of the folklore, folk dialect, or even the national feeling that have coloured the work of practically every writer in contemporary Ireland").

Mickiewicz's influence popularized the use of folklore, folk literary forms, and historism in Polish romantic literature.

The Aradia material is, unfortunately, a disputed text with problems of its own when compared to the usually accepted folklore, folk traditions, and folk magic practices of Italy.

One medium for the preservation of national identity had been folklore and folk song.

Kent returned to the case a few years later and immersed herself in Irish folklore and folk medicine.

Among groups that have converted to Christianity, Islam, or another world religion, former shamanistic practices may be revealed through an analysis of folklore and folk beliefs.

There is a marked difference between true popular literature, that of folklore and folk song, and the popular literature of modern times.

During the 20th century, folklore and folk speech had a great influence on elite literature on writers as different as Franz Kafka and Carl Sandburg, Selma Lagerlöf and Kawabata Yasunari, Martin Buber and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

As director of the Department of Culture of São Paulo from 1935 until his death, he organized research into Brazilian folklore and folk music.

Gennep also made studies of European folklore, viewing folk literature and practices as aspects of a living culture rather than as remains of a dead one.