Welcome back, everyone, to the return of the folklore blogging! So last year (yikes), we were discussing the characteristics that mark a folktale out: plot grammar, aesthetic style, and so on. As I said at the time, modern retellings may … Continue reading
Daily Archives: January 11, 2013
By Brenda Clough Since Argo is up for some major awards, it seems worthy of mention here. I enjoyed this movie tremendously, because I was a Foreign Service brat in that period. I lived in crummy third-world countries while military coups went on, and was bussed … Continue reading