Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb - Mieder, Wolfgang
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Explores research on proverbs of many cultures. More than 20 essays written by scholars of such diverse disciplines as folklore, literature, psychology, linguistics and anthropology illustrate the significance of traditional proverbs and trace variations of proverbs over time.

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Explores research on proverbs of many cultures. More than 20 essays written by scholars of such diverse disciplines as folklore, literature, psychology, linguistics and anthropology illustrate the significance of traditional proverbs and trace variations of proverbs over time.
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Wolfgang Mieder is professor of German and folklore and chair of the Department of German and Russian at the University of Vermont. Author of more than sixty books on folklore and proverbs, including Proverbs Are Never Out of Season and Howl Like a Wolf: Animal Proverbs, Mieder is co-editor of A Dictionary of American Proverbs and A Dictionary of Wellerisms. Alan Dundes is professor of folklore and anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley. His books available from the University of Wisconsin Press include Parsing through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist and several folklore casebooks: The Cockfight, The Evil Eye, The Blood Libel Legend, Cinderella, and Little Red Riding Hood.