Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb by Mieder, Wolfgang

Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780299143640)

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Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb by Mieder, Wolfgang

Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb

$19.95
Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb by Mieder, Wolfgang

Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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The Wisdom of Many explores research on proverbs of many cultures. More than twenty 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, drawing on African, Chinese, Spanish, Finnish, Irish, and Yiddish examples.


Author: Wolfgang Mieder
ISBN-10: 0299143643
ISBN-13: 9780299143640
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 07/15/1994
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d
By Wolfgang Mieder
By Wolfgang Mieder
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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.

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