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- catalog abstract "Defines and classifies proverbs, and explores their occurrence in oral tradition, literature, art, and popular culture.".
- catalog contributor b13324162.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Behind the cloud 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 -- Bibliography. Bibliographies -- Proverb journals -- Major proverb studies -- Multilingual proverb collections -- Bilingual proverb collections -- Anglo-American proverb collections -- Regional and thematic proverb collections.".
- catalog description "1. 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 -- 2. 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 -- ".
- catalog description "Defines and classifies proverbs, and explores their occurrence in oral tradition, literature, art, and popular culture.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-278) and index.".
- catalog description "Native American proverbs -- African American proverbs -- Selected bibliography -- 3. 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 -- 4. 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 -- ".
- catalog extent "xvi, 304 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Proverbs.".
- catalog identifier "0313326983".
- catalog isFormatOf "Proverbs.".
- catalog isPartOf "Greenwood folklore handbooks, 1549-733X".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,".
- catalog relation "Proverbs.".
- catalog subject "398.9/09 22".
- catalog subject "PN6401 .M487 2004".
- catalog subject "Proverbs History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""Behind the cloud 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 -- Bibliography. Bibliographies -- Proverb journals -- Major proverb studies -- Multilingual proverb collections -- Bilingual proverb collections -- Anglo-American proverb collections -- Regional and thematic proverb collections.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. 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 -- 2. 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 -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Native American proverbs -- African American proverbs -- Selected bibliography -- 3. 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 -- 4. 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 -- ".
- catalog title "Proverbs : a handbook / Wolfgang Mieder.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".