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Behold the proverbs of a people : proverbial wisdom in culture, literature, and politics / Wolfgang Mieder

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi [2014], 2014

1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Mieder, Wolfgang : Behold the proverbs of a people. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014 (Druck-Ausgabe)

1-62846-141-1 (electronic bk.); 1-62674-076-3 (electronic bk.); 978-1-62846-141-1 (electronic bk.); 978-1-62674-076-1 (electronic bk.)

978-1-62846-140-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-62846-140-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-62846-140-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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bisacsh: SOC 011000 ; bisacsh: LAN015000 ; bisacsh: SOC011000 ; bisacsh: SOC002010

LOC-SH: Proverbs -- History and criticism

SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Essays ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Rhetoric ; Proverbs ; Criticism, interpretation, etc

"The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book focuses on the field of paremiology (proverb studies) in general, the spread of Anglo-American proverbs in Europe, and the phenomenon of modern proverbs. The second section analyzes the use of proverbs in the world of politics, including a chapter on President Obama, while the third concentrates on the uses of proverbs in literature. The final section ends with detailed cultural studies of the origin, history, dissemination, use, function, and meaning of specific proverbs. Noted scholar Wolfgang Mieder shows that proverbs matter in culture, literature, and politics. Proverbs remain part and parcel of oral and written communication, and, he demonstrates, they deserve to be studied from a range of viewpoints. While various chapters deal with a variety of issues and approaches, they cohere through a rhetorical perspective that looks at the text, texture, and context of proverbs as speech acts that make a noteworthy impact on culture and society. Whether proverbs appear in everyday speech, on the radio, on television, in films, on the pages of newspapers or magazines, in advertisements, in literary works, or in political speeches, they serve as formulaic verbal devices to add authoritative weight through tradition, convention, and wisdom"--

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"Making a Way Out of No Way"Proverbial Underpinnings of the "I Have a Dream" Speeches; Bibliography; 5. "The Golden Rule as Political Imperative": President Barack Obama's Proverbial Worldview; An Inaugural Address without Famous Quotations; Immediate Journalistic Reactions to the Inaugural Address; Lack of President Obama's Earlier Quotable Creations; No Direct Reference to the Proverbs of American Democracy; "We Must Pick Ourselves up, Dust Ourselves off "; Barack Obama's Attempts at New Quotable Formulations; From Inaugural Speech to the World.