Wolfgang Mieder

Proverbs

A Handbook

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Proverbs offer a concise record of folk wisdom and have appeared in oral tradition, literature, art, and popular culture for centuries. Written by the foremost authority on proverbs, this reference gives high school students, undergraduates, and general readers a concise yet comprehensive overview of proverbs in world culture. The volume begins with definitions and classifications of proverbs, followed by discussions of several notable examples. The book then examines approaches to the study of proverbs and the place of proverbs in literature, politics, popular songs, and everyday life. It closes with a bibliography of print and electronic resources and a glossary. Included are numerous illustrations. Just about everyone has heard at least one proverb, and most people have heard more. Proverbs offer a concise record of folk wisdom and have appeared in oral tradition, literature, art, and popular culture for centuries. One of the most varied and fascinating types of folklore, proverbs are studied at all levels and are of interest to a wide range of audiences. Written by the foremost authority on proverbs, this reference gives high school students, undergraduates, and general readers a concise yet comprehensive overview of proverbs in world culture. The volume begins with definitions and classifications of proverbs and a discussion of their origin and dissemination. It then discusses several representative proverbs from around the world. This is followed by a review of scholarship on proverbs. The book next looks at how several proverbs have appeared in political speeches, literature, popular culture, and everyday life. The handbook closes with a bibliography of print and electronic resources and a glossary. Included are numerous photos illustrating the role of proverbs around the world.

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Produktdetails

• Greenwood Folklore Handbooks
• Verlag: Greenwood Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9780313326981
• ISBN-10: 0313326983
• Artikelnr.: 14462200

Autorenporträt

Wolfgang Mieder

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Definition and Classification Definition Attempts Proverb
Markers and Meanings Origin and Dissemination of Proverbs Traditional Forms
Related to the Proverb The International Type System of Proverbs Types of
International Proverb Collections Major Anglo-American Proverb Collections
Various Specialized Proverb Collections Selected Bibliography Examples and
Texts Big Fish Eat Little Fish A Classical Proverb about Human Nature First
Come, First Served A Medieval Legal Proverb from the Millers The Apple
Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree A Proverb's Way from Germany to America The
Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian A Slanderous Proverbial Stereotype Good
Fences Make Good Neighbors An Ambiguous Proverb of Relationships A Picture
Is Worth a Thousand Words An Advertising Slogan Turned American Proverb
Proverbs from Different Cultures and Languages Authentic American Proverbs
Regional American Proverbs Native American Proverbs African American
Proverbs Selected Bibliography Scholarship and Approaches Proverb Journals,
Essay Volumes, and Bibliographies Proverb Collections and Future
Paremiography Comprehensive Overviews of Paremiology Empiricism and
Paremiological Minima Linguistic and Semiotic Considerations Performance
(Speech Acts) in Social Contexts Issues of Culture, Folklore, and History
Politics, Stereotypes, and Worldview Sociology, Psychology, and Psychiatry
Use in Folk Narratives and Literature Religion and Wisdom Literature
Pedagogy and Language Teaching Iconography: Proverbs as Art Mass Media and
Popular Culture Selected Bibliography Contexts A Man of Fashion Never Has
Recourse to Proverbs Lord Chesterfield's Tilting at Proverbial Windmills
Early to Bed and Early to Rise From Proverb to Benjamin Franklin and Back
Behind the Clouds the Sun Is Shining Abraham Lincoln's Proverbial Fight
Against Slavery Conventional Phrases Are a Sort of Fireworks Charles
Dickens's Proverbial Language Make Hell While the Sun Shines Proverbial War
Rhetoric of Winston S. Churchill Man Is a Wolf to Man Proverbial Dialectics
in Bertolt Brecht Benjamin Franklin's The Way to Wealth Proverb Poems and
Popular Songs Proverbs in Caricatures, Cartoons, and Comics Proverbs and
the World of Advertising Proverbs as Headlines and Slogans Selected
Bibliography Bibliography Bibliographies Proverb Journals Major Proverb
Studies Multilingual Proverb Collections Bilingual Proverb Collections
Anglo-American Proverb Collections Regional and Thematic Proverb
Collections Web Resources Glossary Index