Proverbs A Handbook

Subjects:

• Anthropology » Folklore
• Literature » World Literature
• Popular Culture » Popular Culture (General)

Reviews:

• "Experience is the mother [or father] of wisdom," as people have been saying in English since the mid-sixteenth century, and few scholars can have a broader or longer experience of proverbs than Professor Mieder. This handbook distils the fruits of that experience into a format designed to cover the subject from many different angles, while also serving as a permanent reference book....The range of topics is astonishing: proverbs in novels, plays, political speeches, art, advertisements, songs, cartoons, comics; proverbs seen in relation to social issues, education, religion, psychology. The reader is also alerted to the remarkable possibilities for research that the Internet now offers if one wants to test the current popularity and uses of a specific proverb....[w]armly recommended.
  —Folklore December 1, 2005
• This title is a concise, comprehensive guide to American proverbs that records records the oral traditions, literature, art, politics, and popular songs of American culture....This book is an outstanding resource that will be a welcome addition to the high school language arts reference collection. Recommended.
  —Library Media Connection March 2005

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Definition and Classification
• Definition Attempts
• Proverb Markers and Meanings
• Origin and Dissemination of Proverbs
• Traditional Forms Related to the Proverb
• The International Type System of Proverbs
• Types of International Proverb Collections
• Major Anglo-American Proverb Collections
• Various Specialized Proverb Collections
• Selected Bibliography
• Examples and Texts
• Big Fish Eat Little Fish A Classical Proverb about Human Nature
• First Come, First Served A Medieval Legal Proverb from the Millers
• The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree A Proverb's Way from Germany to America
• The Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian A Slanderous Proverbial Stereotype
• Good Fences Make Good Neighbors An Ambiguous Proverb of Relationships
• A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words An Advertising Slogan Turned American Proverb
• Proverbs from Different Cultures and Languages
• Authentic American Proverbs
• Regional American Proverbs
• Native American Proverbs
• African American Proverbs
• Selected Bibliography
• Scholarship and Approaches
• Proverb Journals, Essay Volumes, and Bibliographies
• Proverb Collections and Future Paremiography
• Comprehensive Overviews of Paremiology
• Empiricism and Paremiological Minima
• Linguistic and Semiotic Considerations
• Performance (Speech Acts) in Social Contexts
• Issues of Culture, Folklore, and History
• Politics, Stereotypes, and Worldview
• Sociology, Psychology, and Psychiatry
• Use in Folk Narratives and Literature
• Religion and Wisdom Literature
• Pedagogy and Language Teaching
• Iconography: Proverbs as Art
• Mass Media and Popular Culture
• Selected Bibliography
• Contexts
• A Man of Fashion Never Has Recourse to Proverbs Lord Chesterfield's Tilting at Proverbial Windmills
• Early to Bed and Early to Rise From Proverb to Benjamin Franklin and Back
• Behind the Clouds the Sun Is Shining Abraham Lincoln's Proverbial Fight Against Slavery
• Conventional Phrases Are a Sort of Fireworks Charles Dickens's Proverbial Language
• Make Hell While the Sun Shines Proverbial War Rhetoric of Winston S. Churchill
• Man Is a Wolf to Man Proverbial Dialectics in Bertolt Brecht
• Benjamin Franklin's The Way to Wealth
• Proverb Poems and Popular Songs
• Proverbs in Caricatures, Cartoons, and Comics
• Proverbs and the World of Advertising
• Proverbs as Headlines and Slogans
• Selected Bibliography
• Bibliography
• Bibliographies
• Proverb Journals
• Major Proverb Studies
• Multilingual Proverb Collections
• Bilingual Proverb Collections
• Anglo-American Proverb Collections
• Regional and Thematic Proverb Collections
• Web Resources
• Glossary
• Index

PDF Catalogs:

Folklore and Folklife 2007.pdf