Proverbs Are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age: 7 - Brossura

Mieder, Wolfgang

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ISBN 10: 1433119919 ISBN 13: 9781433119910

Casa editrice: Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2012

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This book takes an engaging look at the significance of traditional proverbs and their variation in the modern world. From sales pitch to propagandistic tool, Wolfgang Mieder looks at how we adapt proverbs to rapidly changing social attitudes – the original wording of proverbs changes to fit modern advertising slogans or political rhetoric, misogynist sayings become feminist slogans, and late medieval woodcuts illustrating proverbs find their modern equivalents in political cartoons and comic strips. The book is richly illustrated and contains name, subject, and proverb indexes.

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Wolfgang Mieder is Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont, where he served for 31 years as the chairperson of the Department of German and Russian. He is an internationally acknowledged proverb scholar, the author of the two-volume International Bibliography of Paremiology and Phraseology (2009), and the founding editor of Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship (since 1984). His numerous books and articles are concerned with cultural, folkloristic, historical, linguistic, literary, philological, social, and political topics.

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• Editore: Peter Lang Pub Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1433119919
• ISBN 13: 9781433119910
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 284