Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words
Wisdom in Art, Culture, Folklore, History, Literature and Mass Media
The ten chapters of Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words present a composite picture of the richness of proverbs as significant expressions of folk wisdom as is manifest from their appearance in art, culture, folklore, history, literature, and the mass media. The first chapter surveys the multifaceted aspects of paremiology (the study of proverbs), with the second chapter illustrating the paremiological work by the American folklorist Alan Dundes. The next two chapters look at the effective role that proverbs play in the mass media, where they are cited in their traditional wording or as innovative anti-proverbs. The fifth chapter discusses prove…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4331-0378-0
- EAN: 9781433103780
- Produktnummer: 19042155
- Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 357 S.
- Masse: H16.2 cm x B23.6 cm x D2.4 cm 608 g
- Auflage: New ed
- Gewicht: 608
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
The Author: Wolfgang Mieder is Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont. He is an internationally acclaimed paremiologist and the founding editor of Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship. His many books and articles deal with cultural, folkloristic, historical, literary, and philological topics. Among his recent books in English are Strategies of Wisdom: Anglo-American and German Proverb Studies (2000), No Struggle, No Progress: Frederick Douglass and His Proverbial Rhetoric for Civil Rights (2001), Call a Spade a Spade: From Classical Phrase to Racial Slur (2002), Cognition, Comprehension, and Communication: North American Proverb Scholarship (2003), Proverbs: A Handbook (2004), Proverbs Are the Best Policy: Folk Wisdom and American Politics (2005), Old Proverbs Never Die, They Just Diversify: A Collection of Anti-Proverbs (2006; with Anna T. Litovkina), and International Proverb Bibliography: Annotated Scholarship on Paremiology and Phraseology (2008).
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