ISBN:
143311951X
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1453910220
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9781433119514
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9781453910221
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
International folkloristics v. 6
DDC:
398.9/9171
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
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Politik
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Proverbs, Russian History and criticism
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Russian literature History and criticism
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Proverbs in literature
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Proverbs, Russian Political aspects
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Russisch
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Sprichwort
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Festschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Russisch
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Sprichwort
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Literature. Proverbial wisdom of an enlightened empress: Russian proverbs in Catherine the Great's O, Vremia! ; Proverbs and the poet: a paremiological analysis of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago ; Poshlost', hegelian syllogism, and the proverb: a paremio-logical approach to Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark ; Didactics and the proverb: the case of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's memoir the Oak and the Calf ; Proverbs in Sergei Eisenstein's Aleksandr Nevsky ; The role of the proverb in Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina -- Politics. Proverbs and perestroika: an analysis of Pravda headlines, 1988-1991 ; Propaganda and the proverb: "big fish eat little fish" in Pravda political cartoons ; Politics and the Russian proverb: a retrospective of Pravda ; Political cartoons in the 1990's ; A nation adrift: the Russian "ship of state" in Pravda political cartoons during the decade of the 1990's ; "Fishing in muddy waters": Vladimir Putin takes on Russia's twentieth-century proverbial "oligarchs" -- Pedagogy. "Na poslovitsu ni suda ni raspravy": the role of proverbs in the Russian language curriculum ; Poslovitsa "vvek ne slomitsia": the proverbs as linguo-cultural medium in American Russian language textbooks ; On the question of a Russian paremiological minimum (translation of Grigorii L'vovich Permiakov's essay "K voprosu o russkom paremiologicheskom minimume [1982])
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This unique Festschrift in honor of Professor Kevin J. McKenna on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday is different from most such celebratory essay volumes in that it does not consist of essays from various authors but is rather a collection of fourteen of his most significant publications on proverbial matters from the last two decades. For more than twenty-five years, Professor McKenna has taught Russian language, culture, and literature at the University of Vermont, and during this time, he has gained national and international recognition as an instructor, scholar, and administrator
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