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The wisdom of many : essays on the proverb / edited by Wolfgang Mieder and Alan Dundes.
- Title
- The wisdom of many : essays on the proverb / edited by Wolfgang Mieder and Alan Dundes.
- Publication
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | REL. W 753 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 330 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Folk literature
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Garland, 1981. (Garland folklore casebooks ; v. 1)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-330).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The wisdom of many and the wit of one / Archer Taylor -- Proverbs in Africa / Ruth Finnegan -- On the structure of the proverb / Alan Dundes -- Towards a structural analysis of Yiddish proverbs / Beatrice Silverman-Weinreich -- The invading guest: some aspects of oral transmission / Pierre Crépeau -- Toward a theory of proverb meaning / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Proverbs: a social use of a metaphor / Peter Seitel -- Proverbs and practical reasoning: a study in socio-logic / Paul D. Goodwin and Joseph W. Wenzel -- Uses of proverb in the synoptic gospels / William A. Beardslee -- The proverbial wisdom of Shakespeare / F.P.Wilson -- The bird that fouls its nest / John G. Kunstmann -- Stuff a cold and starve a fever / Stuart A. Gallacher -- Reliability and validity of proverb interpretation to assess mental status / Nancy C. Andreasen -- A proverb test for attitude measurement / Franziska Baumgarten -- Chinese proverbs and their lessons / Alfred Lister -- The humour of Spanish proverbs / A.A. Parker -- Fatalistic traits in Finnish proverbs / Matti Kuusi -- Irish proverbs and Irish national character / F.N. Robinson -- Tensions in proverbs: more light on international understanding / Joseph Raymond -- Tradition and innovation: proverbs in advertising / Barbara and Wolfgang Mieder.
- ISBN
- 0299143600 (cloth) :
- 0299143643 (paper) :
- LCCN
- ^^^94016235^
- OCLC
- 30359894
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library