Courses Quote by Alan Dundes

The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.

— Alan Dundes

I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially love doing research on the origins of folklore and the origins…

— Mark Waid

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore…

— Alan Dundes

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of…

— Cassandra Clare

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

— Alan Dundes

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something…

— Alan Dundes

The story is everything, so it always begins with a story.And research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go…

— Neal Stephenson

I find all folklore challenging, and I never cease to be grateful that I became a professional folklorist.

— Alan Dundes

I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem…

— Raymond Buckland