The Worldview of Modern American Proverbs

ISBN-13: 9781433181931 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 256 str.

Wolfgang Mieder

Opis

This is the first study of authentic modern American proverbs without including proverbs of British origin. It discusses the origin, nature, and meaning of modern American proverbs based on about 1500 texts.

Spis treści

Preface - "Think Outside the Box": Origin, Nature, and Meaning of Modern American Proverbs - "The Journey Is the Reward": Worldview of Modern American Proverbs - "Life Is Not a Spectator Sport": Proverbial Emotions about Modern Life - "Age Is Just a Number": American Proverbial Wisdom about Age and Aging - "No Body Is Perfect": Somatic Aspects of Modern American Proverbs - "Time Spent Wishing Is Time Wasted": Temporal Worldview in Modern American Proverbs - "Money Makes the World Go 'Round": The Pecuniary Worldview of Modern American Proverbs - "Dogs Don't Bark at Parked Cars": Zoological Messages in Modern American Proverbs - "Love Is Just a Four- Letter Word": Sexuality and Scatology in Modern American Proverbs - Index.

O autorze

Wolfgang Mieder is University Distinguished Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont, where he served for thirty-one years as 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. Among his more recent books are "Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words": Folk Wisdom in Art, Culture, Folklore, History, Literature, and Mass Media (2008), "Making a Way Out of No Way": Martin Luther King's Sermonic Proverbial Rhetoric (2010), "Behold the Proverbs of a People": Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics (2014), and "Right Makes Might": Proverbs and the American Worldview (2019).