folk literature
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That said, a lot of folk literature supports this concept.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2021
Yet the British Library has not created a dry display of dusty, ethnographic curiosities and folk literature.
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2015
Amid the newly exposed atrocities in our folk literature, Caxton’s back-and-forthing on the subject of Reynard’s morals does not appear so shocking.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 27, 2015
If its subject matter comes from folk literature, Titanic’s form is pure Hollywood.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2012
Specimens are to be found of folk literature and modern literature, of the romantic, of the realistic, of the crude and naive, of the artistic and sophisticated, of the humorous and the pathetic.
From Types of Children's Literature by Barnes, Walter