Proverbs Are Never Out of Season
This series includes theoretical studies of any genre or aspect of folklore. The emphasis will be on analytic and methodological innovations in the consideration of myth, folktale, legend, superstition, proverb, riddle, folksong, festival, game or any other form of folklore as well as any of the interpretative approaches to folklore topics.
This series includes theoretical studies of any genre or aspect of folklore. The emphasis will be on analytic and methodological innovations in the consideration of myth, folktale, legend, superstition, proverb, riddle, folksong, festival, game or any other form of folklore as well as any of the interpretative approaches to folklore topics.
Autor: | Mieder, Wolfgang |
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ISBN: | 9781433119910 |
Auflage: | 1 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 284 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Verlag: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York |
Veröffentlicht: | 25.05.2012 |
Untertitel: | Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age |
Schlagworte: | Carolyn Dundes Mieder Modern Popular Proverbs Season advertising significance slogans |
Wolfgang Mieder is Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont, where he served for 31 years as the 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.