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The Politics of Proverbs

From Traditional Wisdom to Proverbial Stereotypes

By: Wolfgang Mieder

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The Politics of Proverbs

From Traditional Wisdom to Proverbial Stereotypes

By: Wolfgang Mieder

Demonstrates how proverbs and to a lesser extent proverbial expressions, have played a significant role in political life during the 20th century. Takes as major examples the speeches and writings of Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman to show how proverbs can be brought into the service of most any ideology. Also traces the use of proverbs and their cartoon analogues during the five decades of Cold War propaganda, and proverbial slurs against Native Americans and Asian Americans. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299154548

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9780299154547

Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs

By: Wolfgang Mieder

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Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs

By: Wolfgang Mieder

Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs offers a comprehensive reference guide for distinctly American proverbs. Compiled by Wolfgang Mieder, a key figure in the field of proverb studies, this compendium features nearly 1,500 proverbs with American origins, spanning the 17th century to present day, including a scholarly introduction exploring the history of proverbs in America, the structure and variants of these proverbs, known authors and sources, and cultural values expressed in these proverbs. Along with a comprehensive bibliography of proverb collections and interpretive scholarship, this dictionary offers a glimpse into the history of American social and cultural attitudes through uniquely American language.

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Berghahn Books

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1800731329

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9781800731325

"Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words"

Folk Wisdom in Art, Culture, Folklore, History, Literature and Mass Media

By: Wolfgang Mieder

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"Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words"

Folk Wisdom in Art, Culture, Folklore, History, Literature and Mass Media

By: Wolfgang Mieder

This book presents a composite picture of the richness of proverbs as significant expressions of folk wisdom as is manifest from their appearance in art, culture, folklore, history, literature, and the mass media. The book draws attention to the fact that proverbs as metaphorical signs continue to play an important role in oral and written communication. Proverbs as so-called monumenta humana are omnipresent in all facets of life, and while they are neither sacrosanct nor saccharine, they usually offer much common sense or wisdom based on recurrent experiences and observations."--BOOK JACKET.

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Peter Lang

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1433103788

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9781433103780

"Making a Way Out of No Way"

Martin Luther King's Sermonic Proverbial Rhetoric

By: Wolfgang Mieder

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"Making a Way Out of No Way"

Martin Luther King's Sermonic Proverbial Rhetoric

By: Wolfgang Mieder

In barely forty years of life Martin Luther King (1929-1968) distinguished himself as one of the greatest social reformers of modern times: civil rights leader, defender of nonviolence in the struggle of desegregation, champion of the poor, anti-war proponent, and broad-minded visionary of an interrelated world of free people. His many verbal and written communications in the form of sermons, speeches, interviews, letters, essays, and several books are replete with Bible proverbs as «Love your enemies», «He who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword», and «Man does not live by bread alone» as well as folk proverbs as «Time and tide wait for no man», «Last hired, first fired», «No gain without pain», and «Making a way out of no way». He also delighted in citing quotations that have become proverbs, to wit «No man is an island», «All men are created equal», and «No lie can live forever». King recycles these bits of traditional wisdom in various contexts, varying his proverbial messages as he addresses the multifaceted issues of civil rights. His rhetorical prowess is thus informed to a considerable degree by his effective use of his repertoire of proverbs which he frequently uses as leitmotifs or amasses into set pieces of fixed phrases to be employed repeatedly.

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Peter Lang

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1433113031

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The Proverbial "Pied Piper"

A Festschrift Volume of Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Mieder on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday

By: Kevin J. McKenna

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The Proverbial "Pied Piper"

A Festschrift Volume of Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Mieder on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday

By: Kevin J. McKenna

With more than one hundred-fifty books and three hundred published articles on proverb studies that have attracted wide attention of folklorists around the world, it is little wonder that international scholars look upon Wolfgang Mieder as the modern-day Pied Piper of paremiology. For this festschrift, some of the world's leading proverb and folklore scholars have come together to commemorate Mieder's sixty-fifth birthday. Authors from Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, Israel, and the United States have contributed essays representative of the scope and breadth of Mieder's own impressive scholarship. The Proverbial «Pied Piper» honors Wolfgang Mieder's legendary contributions to the study of proverbs and contains new scholarship by some of the best paremiologists in the world.

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Peter Lang

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143310489X

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9781433104893

Wise Words (RLE Folklore)

Essays on the Proverb

By: Wolfgang Mieder

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Wise Words (RLE Folklore)

Essays on the Proverb

By: Wolfgang Mieder

The twenty essays that comprise this book, which was first published in 1994, were written by leading paremiologists and folklorists from Africa, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and the US. They represent the best scholarship on proverbs in the English language, and together they give an impressive overview of the fascinating advances in the field of paremiology.

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464

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Routledge

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1317549236

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9781317549239

Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature

By: Wolfgang Mieder

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Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature

By: Wolfgang Mieder

In this book, first published in 1987, Wolfgang Mieder follows the intriguing trail of some of the best known pieces of folk literature, tracing them from their roots to modern uses in advertising, journalism, politics, cartoons, and poetry. He reveals both the remarkable adaptability of these tales and how each variation reflects cultural and historical changes. Fairy tales, legends, folk songs, riddles, nursery rhymes, and proverbs are passed from generation to generation, changing both in form and meaning with each use. This book will be of interest to students of literature.

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Routledge

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1317376854

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The Politics of Proverbs

From Traditional Wisdom to Proverbial Stereotypes

By: Wolfgang Mieder

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"Making a Way Out of No Way"

Martin Luther King's Sermonic Proverbial Rhetoric

By: Wolfgang Mieder

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Martin Luther King's Sermonic Proverbial Rhetoric

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"Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words"

Folk Wisdom in Art, Culture, Folklore, History, Literature and Mass Media

By: Wolfgang Mieder

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Folk Wisdom in Art, Culture, Folklore, History, Literature and Mass Media

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Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages

Structural Features and Verbal Humor Devices

By: Anna T. Litovkina,Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt,Péter Barta,Katalin Vargha,Wolfgang Mieder

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Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages

Structural Features and Verbal Humor Devices

By: Anna T. Litovkina,Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt,Péter Barta,Katalin Vargha,Wolfgang Mieder

This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs. Proverbs are by no means fossilized texts but are adaptable to different times and changed values. While anti-proverbs can be considered as variants of older proverbs, they can also become new proverbs reflecting a more modern worldview. Anti-proverbs are therefore a lingo-cultural phenomenon that deserves the attention of cultural and literary historians, folklorists, linguists, and general readers interested in language and wordplay.

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Springer Nature

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3030890627

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9783030890629

Marriage Seen through Proverbs and Anti-Proverbs

By: Anna T. Litovkina,Wolfgang Mieder

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Marriage Seen through Proverbs and Anti-Proverbs

By: Anna T. Litovkina,Wolfgang Mieder

This book explores various aspects of marriage and the ways it is viewed and conceptualized in the body of Anglo-American anti-proverbs (or proverb transformations). It also depicts those who contribute to the institution of marriage (that is, husbands and wives), and analyses their nature, qualities, attributes and behaviours as revealed through such anti-proverbs. In addition, the text investigates those who remain single and do not belong to the institution of marriage, but contribute to the institution of marriage. It will appeal to a wide range of readers, from the casually interested general reader to the paremiologist, paremiographer, lexicographer, and anthropologist.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527542785

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9781527542785

Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature

By: Wolfgang Mieder

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1317376862

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"Right Makes Might"

Proverbs and the American Worldview

By: Wolfgang Mieder

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"Right Makes Might"

Proverbs and the American Worldview

By: Wolfgang Mieder

“A powerful and timely addition to the literature of rhetoric and folklore.” —Choice In 1860, Abraham Lincoln employed the proverb Right makes might—opposite of the more aggressive Might makes right—in his famed Cooper Union address. While Lincoln did not originate the proverb, his use of it in this critical speech indicates that the fourteenth century phrase had taken on new ethical and democratic connotations in the nineteenth century. In this collection, famed scholar of proverbs Wolfgang Mieder explores the multifaceted use and function of proverbs through the history of the United States, from their early beginnings up through their use by such modern-day politicians as Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Bernie Sanders. Building on previous publications and unpublished research, Mieder explores sociopolitical aspects of the American worldview as expressed through the use of proverbs in politics, women’s rights, and the civil rights movement—and by looking at the use of proverbial phrases, Mieder demonstrates how one traditional phrase can take on numerous expressive roles over time, and how they continue to play a key role in our contemporary moment.

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398

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Indiana University Press

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0253040361

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9780253040367

The Marriage of Figaro

By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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The Marriage of Figaro

By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart's beloved comic romp, reprinted from a late (C. F. Peters, 1941) edition, which preserves Mozart's autograph manuscript and early translations of the libretto and includes passages that are often cut in other editions.

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450

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Courier Corporation

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0486318079

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9780486318073

Goethe

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gathers a representative sampling of the German writer's poems and includes prose translations from the German

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Penguin

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0140420746

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Book's by Wolfgang Mieder

The Politics of Proverbs

The Politics of Proverbs

Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs

Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs

"Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words"

"Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words"

"Making a Way Out of No Way"

"Making a Way Out of No Way"

The Proverbial "Pied Piper"

The Proverbial "Pied Piper"

Wise Words (RLE Folklore)

Wise Words (RLE Folklore)

Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature

Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature

The Politics of Proverbs

The Politics of Proverbs

"Making a Way Out of No Way"

"Making a Way Out of No Way"

"Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words"

"Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words"

Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages

Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages

Marriage Seen through Proverbs and Anti-Proverbs

Marriage Seen through Proverbs and Anti-Proverbs

Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature

Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature

"Right Makes Might"

"Right Makes Might"

The Marriage of Figaro

The Marriage of Figaro

Goethe

Goethe

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