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Tilting at windmills : history and meaning of a proverbial allusion to Cervantes' Don Quixote / Wolfgang Mieder.
- Title
- Tilting at windmills : history and meaning of a proverbial allusion to Cervantes' Don Quixote / Wolfgang Mieder.
- Author
- Mieder, Wolfgang
- Publication
- Burlington, VT : University of Vermont, 2006.
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Details
- Description
- 119 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Supplement series of Proverbium ; v. 21
- Uniform Title
- Supplement series of Proverbium ; v. 21.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Fighting windmills - a polyglot phenomenon. -- The adventure of the windmills. -- Windmills and proverbial duels. -- The proverbial phrase "to have windmills in one's head" -- The proverbial phase "to fight with a windmill" -- Variations of the proverbial expression "to fight windmills" -- The survival of the windmill - episode in cartoons and caricatures.
- ISBN
- 0977073130
- 9780977073139
- LCCN
- ^^2006366107
- OCLC
- 76902178
- SCSB-11734551
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library