Proverbs in World Literature
A Bibliography
Literary critics and folklorists have long been interested in the use and function of proverbial language in literature. Proverbs in World Literature enables scholars and students to establish what has been published on proverbs, proverbial expressions, proverbial comparisons, proverbial exaggerations, and wellerisms in the works of many authors throughout the world. This international bibliography contains 2,654 entries, of which the first 284 comprise a section of General Studies. Proverb dictionaries based on texts collected from literary works, books and articles about numerous authors, studies of the interrelationship of proverbs and fol…
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Weitere Autoren: Bryan, George B.
- ISBN: 978-0-8204-3499-5
- EAN: 9780820434995
- Produktnummer: 19045087
- Verlag: Lang, Peter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 305 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.5 cm 596 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 596
Über den Autor
The Authors: Wolfgang Mieder is Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont. In addition to editing Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, Dr. Mieder has written numerous books on proverbs, including American Proverbs: A Study of Texts and Contexts (Peter Lang, 1989); A Dictionary of American Proverbs (with S. Kingsbury and K. Harder); International Proverb Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography; and Proverbs Are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age. George B. Bryan is Professor of Theatre at the University of Vermont and has published several reference books on theatrical biography, the latest of which are Stage Deaths: A Biographical Guide to International Theatrical Obituaries, 1850 to 1990, and Ethel Merman: A Bio-Bibliography. In addition to American Theatrical Legislation 1607-1900: Conspectus and Texts, Dr. Bryan has also written Black Sheep, Red Herrings, and Blue Murder: The Proverbial Agatha Christie (Peter Lang, 1993). Dr. Bryan and Dr. Mieder are co-compilers of The Proverbial Bernard Shaw, The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill, and The Proverbial Eugene O'Neill.
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