The Worldview of Modern American Proverbs
There was a time when the word modern would not have appeared in folklore scholarship in general and in proverb studies in particular. After all, folklorists and cultural historians were primarily interested in traditional materials with some consideration also being given to their innovative adaptations. While this interplay of tradition and innovation informed many studies that exemplified a certain constancy in change, little attention was paid to new or modern folklore items. But there has been a revolutionary change during the past few decades in that scholars have looked at the creation of new folklore. This change of emphasis has also…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4331-8195-5
- EAN: 9781433181955
- Produktnummer: 35262633
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'536 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Wolfgang Mieder is University Distinguished Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont, where he served for thirty-one years as chairperson of the Department of German and Russian. He is an internationally acknowledged proverb scholar, the author of the two-volume International Bibliography of Paremiology and Phraseology (2009), and the founding editor of Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship (since 1984). His numerous books and articles are concerned with cultural, folkloristic, historical, linguistic, literary, philological, social, and political topics. Among his more recent books are Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words: Folk Wisdom in Art, Culture, Folklore, History, Literature, and Mass Media (2008), Making a Way Out of No Way: Martin Luther King's Sermonic Proverbial Rhetoric (2010), Behold the Proverbs of a People: Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics (2014), and Right Makes Might: Proverbs and the American Worldview (2019).
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