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"Right makes might" : proverbs and the American worldview
- Title
- "Right makes might" : proverbs and the American worldview / Wolfgang Mieder.
- Author
- Mieder, Wolfgang
- Publication
- Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 375 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Rhetoric > Political aspects
- Political oratory
- United States
- Proverbs, American
- Proverbs > Political aspects
- Trivia and miscellanea
- Politicians > Language
- Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States > History
- Politics and government
- Proverbs, American > History and criticism
- Proverbs > Political aspects > United States
- Political oratory > United States > History
- Politicians > United States > Language
- United States > Politics and government > Miscellanea
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- National characteristics, American
- History
- United States > Politics and government > Quotations, maxims, etc
- Quotations
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Quotations.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : ruminations on authentically American proverbs -- "Let us have faith that right makes might" : proverbial rhetoric in decisive moments of American politics -- "These are the times that try women's souls" : the proverbial rhetoric for women's rights by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony -- "The American people rose to the occasion" : a proverbial retrospective of the Marshall Plan after seventy years -- "Making a way out of no way" : Martin Luther King Jr.'s proverbial dream for human rights -- "Keep your eyes on the prize" : Congressman John Lewis's proverbial odyssey for civil rights -- "I'm absolutely sure about the golden rule" : Barack Obama's proverbial audacity of hope -- "Politics is not a spectator sport" : proverbs in the personal and political writings of Hillary Rodham Clinton -- "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" : Bernie Sanders's proverbial rhetoric for an American sociopolitical revolution -- "M(R)ight makes r(m)ight" : the sociopolitical history of a contradictory proverb pair -- "All men are created equal" : from democratic claim to proverbial game -- "Laissez faire à Georges" and "Let George do it" : a case of paremiological polygenesis -- "To be (all) Greek to someone" : origin, history, and meaning of an English proverbial expression.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-7130
- ISBN
- 9780253040343
- 0253040345
- 9780253040350
- 0253040353
- LCCN
- 2018049711
- OCLC
- 1049824134
- Author
- Mieder, Wolfgang, author.
- Title
- "Right makes might" : proverbs and the American worldview / Wolfgang Mieder.
- Publisher
- Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Mieder, Wolfgang. "Right makes might". Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, [2019] 9780253040367 (DLC) 2018061381
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-7130