Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words: Wisdom in Art, Culture, Folklore, History, Lit

Description: Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words by Wolfgang Mieder The ten chapters of "Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words" present 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 first chapter surveys the multifaceted aspects of paremiology (the study of proverbs), with the second chapter illustrating the paremiological work by the American folklorist Alan Dundes. The next two chapters look at the effective role that proverbs play in the mass media, where they are cited in their traditional wording or as innovative anti-proverbs. The fifth chapter discusses proverbs as expressions of the worldview of New England. This is followed by two chapters on the proverbial prowess of American presidents, to wit the proverbial style in the correspondence between John and Abigail Adams and a discussion of Abraham Lincolns apocryphal proverb "Dont swap horses in the middle of the stream." The eighth chapter traces the tradition of proverb iconography from medieval woodcuts to Pieter Bruegel the Elder and on to modern caricatures, cartoons, and comic strips. The last two chapters deal with the origin and history of the proverbial expression "to tilt at windmills" as an allusion to Cervantes Don Quixote and the many proverbial utterances in Mozarts letters. 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 socalled 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography The Author: Wolfgang Mieder is Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont. He is an internationally acclaimed paremiologist and the founding editor of Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship. His many books and articles deal with cultural, folkloristic, historical, literary, and philological topics. Among his recent books in English are Strategies of Wisdom: Anglo-American and German Proverb Studies (2000), "No Struggle, No Progress": Frederick Douglass and His Proverbial Rhetoric for Civil Rights (2001), "Call a Spade a Spade": From Classical Phrase to Racial Slur (2002), Cognition, Comprehension, and Communication: North American Proverb Scholarship (2003), Proverbs: A Handbook (2004), Proverbs Are the Best Policy: Folk Wisdom and American Politics (2005), "Old Proverbs Never Die, They Just Diversify": A Collection of Anti-Proverbs (2006; with Anna T. Litovkina), and International Proverb Bibliography: Annotated Scholarship on Paremiology and Phraseology (2008). Details ISBN1433103788 Author Wolfgang Mieder Publisher Peter Lang Publishing Inc Year 2008 ISBN-10 1433103788 ISBN-13 9781433103780 Format Hardcover Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc Subtitle Wisdom in Art, Culture, Folklore, History, Literature and Mass Media Country of Publication United States DEWEY 398.9 Affiliation University of Vermont Edition 1st Short Title -PROVERBS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WO Language English Media Book Residence VT, US Publication Date 2008-07-23 DOI 10.1604/9781433103780 UK Release Date 2008-07-23 AU Release Date 2008-07-23 NZ Release Date 2008-07-23 US Release Date 2008-07-23 Edition Description New edition Audience Professional & Vocational Pages 358 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:148064594;

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