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Old proverbs never die, they just diversify : a collection of anti-proverbs / [edited by] Anna T. Litovkina and Wolfgang Mieder.

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Old proverbs never die, they just diversify : a collection of anti-proverbs / [edited by] Anna T. Litovkina and Wolfgang Mieder.
Publication
Burlington : University of Vermont ; Veszprém, Hungary : Pannonian University of Vesprém, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Tóthné Litovkina, Anna
  • Mieder, Wolfgang
  • Földes, Csaba
Description
xvii, 396 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Subject
  • Proverbs, American
  • Proverbs, American > Humor
Genre/Form
  • Anthologie.
  • Humor
Note
  • "Edited by Anna T. Litovkina, Wolfgang Mieder and Csaba Földes"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-357) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Contradictory proverbs -- Doubts concerning the truth of proverbs -- Background of research and terminology -- Occurrence of anti-proverbs -- Anti-proverbs spread internationally -- Proverbs most popular for variation -- Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away -- Types of proverb alterations -- Themes treated in proverb transformations -- Incorporation of Anglo-American proverbs and anti-proverbs into language classroom
ISBN
  • 9639495824
  • 9789639495821
LCCN
^^2007272060
OCLC
  • 76903097
  • SCSB-12038566
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library