ISBN:
9781433103780
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 357 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words : Wisdom in Art, Culture, Folklore, History, Literature and Mass Media
DDC:
398.9
Keywords:
Folklore
;
Proverbs History and criticism
Abstract:
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 innovativ
Description / Table of Contents:
Table of Contents; Introduction 1; 1. "Wisdom Is Better Than Wealth" Proverbs as Expressions of Culture and Folklore 9; 2. "The Proof of the Proverb Is in the Probing" Alan Dundes as Pioneering Paremiologist 45; 3. "Anti-Proverbs and Mass Communication" Interplay of Traditional and Innovative Folklore 87; 4. "It Pays to Proverbialize" Folk Wisdom in the Modern Mass Media 121; 5. "Good Old Yankee Wisdom" Proverbs and the Worldview of New England 143; 6. "History Teaches by Example" David McCullough's John Adams Biography 1
Description / Table of Contents:
7. "Don't Swap Horses in the Middle of the Stream" History of Abraham Lincoln's Apocryphal Proverb 2058. "A Picture Worth More Than a Thousand Words" Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Netherlandish Proverbs 251; 9. "Tilting at Windmills" A Proverbial Allusion to Cervantes' Don Quixote 277; 10. "Now I Sit Like a Rabbit in the Pepper" Proverbial Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 317; Index 349
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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