Wolfgang Mieder

Proverbs

A Handbook

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Produktbeschreibung

The book comprises a comprehensive survey of the multifaceted nature of proverbs as colorful expressions of folk wisdom. The first part deals with the definition and classification of proverbs, including such matters as proverb markers and meanings, origin and dissemination, traditional forms related to proverbs, and types of proverb collections. The second part presents essays on the origin, history and modern use of a variety of proverbs. There are also representative lists of proverbs from different cultures and languages, Native American proverbs, African American proverbs, etc. The third part discusses the fascinating scholarship on proverbs that includes empirical studies, linguistic and semiotic considerations, proverb performance in social contexts, issues of culture, folklore, and history, the appearance of proverbs in politics, the expression of stereotypes and worldview in proverbs, the anthropological, sociological, and psychological study of proverbs, the use of proverbs in folk narratives and literature, proverbs in religion and wisdom literature, pedagogical use of proverbs, the illustrations of proverbs in art, and the appearance of proverbs in the modern age of mass media and popular culture. The fourth part contains chapters on the use and function of proverbs in the writings of Lord Chesterfield, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Diickens, Winston S. Churchill, and Bertolt Brecht. There are also sections on proverb poems and songs, proverbs in caricatures, cartoons, comics, advertisements, and newspaper headlines. An extensive bibliography of major studies and collections as well as name, subject, and proverb indices conclude this inclusive study.

Produktdetails

• International Folkloristics 8
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 312024
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781433120244
• ISBN-10: 1433120240
• Artikelnr.: 39192213

Autorenporträt

Wolfgang Mieder is Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont, where he served for 31 years as the 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.

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