Sentences with phrase «with folktales»

Infected with folktales, steeped in poetry, A Fort of Nine Towers is a life - affirming triumph.

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Like trees in many folktales, he also speaks to them as well, albeit with the arboreal sluggishness of a slow - growing, slow - moving creature.

That doesn't change the fact that the New Testament is a collection folktales that were intermingled with real life politics and intended for an audience of jewish xenophobes.

He's only an amalgamation of several real life messianic cult leaders with all his «miracles» stolen from neighboring religious folktales.

Finally, though structuralism seemed to lend itself well to myths, folktales and highly formulaic texts, it seemed unable to deal with more complex narratives.

Not all Christians read the Bible literally but take much of it to be collections of folktales, poetry, and history that sometimes illustrate how difficult it can be to navigate through life and grapple with the questions of where we come from, where we're going, and how we are to live in the meantime.

On property his creativity inspires events, such as Folktale Chef Duels, as well as a chef's garden and along with his team - make Folktale Winery a California culinary destination.

But another hypothesis holds that folktales mutate and evolve so quickly that all of these stories emerged and evolved independently from each other; their similarities are due to chance and the universality of a world filled with wild animals and vulnerable children.

Rafael Motamayor chats with writer / director Sebastian Gutierrez, and stars Carla Gugino and Abbey Lee on folktales, directing your partner, fainting in the theater and more... Where did you get the idea for Elizabeth Harvest?

Any movie that opens with the great Brad Dourif telling a creepy folktale is bound to grab your attention.

An impressive shot establishing Pumpkinhead as he strides into the skeleton of an old, broken - down church in blue half - light suggests more than the triumph of practical effects on a low budget and tight shooting schedule: it suggests that the film's simplicity could — should — be read as pagan folktale, complete with cautionary spiel, brutal exposition, and a surprisingly strong moral grounding.

One line from «Let It Rock» — «working on the railroad with a steel driving hammer» — led right into a mini-lesson on folktales and heroes like John Henry, and we compared working and living conditions from the past with today, which is California State Social Studies Standards 2.1

In this lesson, students will read and learn about four folktales of the Wampanoags, the tribe that shared the First Thanksgiving with the pilgrims.

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Explore a classic African folktale with your class.

While exploring the recall of Native American folktales, Bartlett noticed that many recalls were not accurate and involved the replacement of unfamiliar information with facts already known.

The folktale «Half - Chicken» is about a chicken hatched with only half a body, one leg, one wing, one eye, and only half as...

-- Worked with middle school students, teaching them to tell and create folktales which illustrated themes of «rites of passage.»

Despite her immigrant parents» obsession with Indian princesses and folktales, Kiranmala has always had a fairly normal life in a New Jersey town — until she arrives home on her twelfth birthday to find her parents gone, a mythical rakkosh demon waiting to ambush her, and two warrior princes who tell her that she's actually an Indian princess from another dimension, born to slay demons.

The story, in which a magical bowl disrupts the lives of an elderly man and his cat, is just as good, smoothly blending folktale conventions with touches of magic and a dusting of comedy.

Weaving together the story of their life with China's recent political history, as well as traditional folktales and myths, the Kitchen God illuminates the most impenetrable aspects the human condition.

Beautifully illustrated, this is a collection of four Nagishkin folktales in which the Siberian tiger is closely associated with the main characters.

In a classic folktale, a gluttonous jackal works his way from a few fish all the way to an elephant, until his tummy bursts, disgorging the lot, who waste no time taking revenge with a rhyming taunt.

With beautiful, intricately detailed artwork in a playful comic - book style, Williams retells eight Indian animal folktales.

Filled with the rich history of legends and folktales, woven together with the hopes, fears, and hardships of day - to - day life in this mysterious land.

AuthorImprints Services: eBook conversion, distribution, marketing on Amazon consulting About the book: Dolitsky and Michael have selected four of Nagishkin's folktales in which the Siberian tiger is closely associated with the main characters.

As a new writer, Smith provided me with great resources and guidance to market my book Callaloo: A Jazz Folktale.

With a nod to folktales, two zany brothers named Mac and Mac (who happen to be macaroni noodles) wow audiences with their hilarity and gullibilWith a nod to folktales, two zany brothers named Mac and Mac (who happen to be macaroni noodles) wow audiences with their hilarity and gullibilwith their hilarity and gullibility.

Throughout the book, Danticat underscores her family's entanglement with Haitian politics and history by paralleling their lives to the characters in her Granmé Melina's folktales.

In her compelling narration of this quest tale flavored with Chinese folktales, Guest masterfully depicts Pinmel, who seeks to rescue her grandmother from the wicked Tiger Emperor.

With the help of Abuela's shocking advice, Martina interviews a cast of unlikely suitors to find her true love in a lively and humorous retelling of a classic folktale.

The outline itself was very rough and written with an adult as the main character (MC), which is often the case with very old folktales.

«Theres not a lot of traditional material for kids being produced in Australia,» says Sophie Masson, one of the co-founders of Christmas Press, a new boutique picture book publisher with a focus on folktales and traditional stories.

Given the main character's literary ancestry, it's not surprising to see the title evoke the symbolism of the lurid folktales that would eventually be associated with the Grimm Brothers works or the allegory of Stoker's Dracula.

The mixture of this in a horror survival game works rather well, with the spirit illustrations coming across as very creepy thanks to their Japanese folktale inspirations, and they integrate with the style of the game very well.

Her video and photographic works in the exhibition deal with charismatic Christian prayer warriors; folktales concerning Kuru, an intelligent yet treacherous tortoise; karikpo (antelope) masquerade figures asserting playful gymnastic parkour - like performances around decommissioned pipelines or areas where pipelines once existed; and the color red, which represents birth in the artist's native Ogoniland and symbolizes her own rebirth there.

In a curious botanical milieu peopled with costumed creatures born from myths and folktales, Janaina Tschape makes photographs and video.

Installations by Jonas can be seen all day in the atmospheric subterranean setting of The Tanks, along with a piece by Jumana Emil Abboud based on Palestinian folktales.

Each of Ford's animal portraits doubles as a complex, symbolic system, which the artist layers with clues, jokes, and erudite lessons in colonial literature and folktales.

An obsession with Lord of the Rings and traditional folktales inform her drawings, which frequently contain mountainous landscapes and unusual characters.

This artist explores the links between folktales of the supernatural with the current stresses and conditions that China's rural communities face.

Inspired by the Story of Shim Cheong, a Korea folktale as well as by Shakespeare's Ophelia, Lee JeeYoung made this installation by painting paper lotus and flooding the room with fog and carbonic ice in order to create a mystic atmosphere.