Download or read book Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs written by Emanuel Strauss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 2137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise edition of the definitive 3-volume Dictionary of European Proverbs constitutes a fascinating collection of proverbs in 29 languages. The entries are arranged alphabetically according to the English equivalent, allowing the reader to identify common trends easily and quickly. * All proverbs listed in original language * 29 European languages featured * Includes all proverbs in current use * Thoroughly checked by language specialists to ensure accuracy. The Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs is based on over 40 years in-depth research by the compiler. It is an essential reference source for linguists, ethnologists and folklorists, and of interest to anyone wanting to know about the origins, development and current usage of the proverb. Emanuel Straussis a world-renowned expert on proverbs.

Download or read book A General Bibliographical Dictionary written by Friedrich Adolf Ebert and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dictionary of European Proverbs written by Emanuel Strauss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 2050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Dictionary contains over 50,000 proverbs, in some 70 European languages and dialects, arranged in 2,500 sets. It is the fruits of over 40 years of collection and research, the only collection of proverbs on anything like this scale ever to be published anywhere in the world. Emanuel Strauss has trawled through innumerable collections of proverbs in all languages, from early printed books and rare items to the latest theses and journals, and grouped together many thousands of proverbs in sets of equivalent meaning. Comprehensive indexes for each language provide access to any proverb by way of its key words. A critical bibliography musters some 500 items, from incunabula to the current decade.

Download or read book A General Bibliographical Dictionary A E written by Friedrich Adolf Ebert and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dictionnaire de locutions proverbiales written by L.M.E. Grandjean and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dictionnaire des proverbes anglais fran ais fran ais anglais written by Françoise Bulman and published by Presses Université Laval. This book was released on 1998 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initiative opportune que de présenter 1800 proverbes dans les deux langues. Intérêt immédiat pour le lecteur qui aime les nuances et surtout intérêt à court terme pour le traducteur qui ne veut pas s'y perdre. Présentation thématique.

Download or read book Dictionnaire de locutions proverbiales written by Louis Marius Eugène Grandjean and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reference Catalogue of Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proverbs and Their Lessons written by Richard Chenevix Trench and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Behold the Proverbs of a People written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book focuses on the field of paremiology (proverb studies) in general, the spread of Anglo-American proverbs in Europe, and the phenomenon of modern proverbs. The second section analyzes the use of proverbs in the world of politics, including a chapter on President Obama, while the third concentrates on the uses of proverbs in literature. The final section ends with detailed cultural studies of the origin, history, dissemination, use, function, and meaning of specific proverbs. Noted scholar Wolfgang Mieder shows that proverbs matter in culture, literature, and politics. Proverbs remain part and parcel of oral and written communication, and, he demonstrates, they deserve to be studied from a range of viewpoints. While various chapters deal with a variety of issues and approaches, they cohere through a rhetorical perspective that looks at the text, texture, and context of proverbs as speech acts that make a noteworthy impact on culture and society. Whether proverbs appear in everyday speech, on the radio, on television, in films, on the pages of newspapers or magazines, in advertisements, in literary works, or in political speeches, they serve as formulaic verbal devices to add authoritative weight through tradition, convention, and wisdom.

Download or read book Right Makes Might written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A powerful and timely addition to the literature of rhetoric and folklore.” —Choice In 1860, Abraham Lincoln employed the proverb Right makes might—opposite of the more aggressive Might makes right—in his famed Cooper Union address. While Lincoln did not originate the proverb, his use of it in this critical speech indicates that the fourteenth century phrase had taken on new ethical and democratic connotations in the nineteenth century. In this collection, famed scholar of proverbs Wolfgang Mieder explores the multifaceted use and function of proverbs through the history of the United States, from their early beginnings up through their use by such modern-day politicians as Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Bernie Sanders. Building on previous publications and unpublished research, Mieder explores sociopolitical aspects of the American worldview as expressed through the use of proverbs in politics, women’s rights, and the civil rights movement—and by looking at the use of proverbial phrases, Mieder demonstrates how one traditional phrase can take on numerous expressive roles over time, and how they continue to play a key role in our contemporary moment.

Download or read book An Essay towards a collection of Books relating to Proverbs Emblems Apophthegms Epitaphs and Ana being a Catalogue of those at Keir written by Sir afterwards STIRLING MAXWELL STIRLING (William) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proverbium written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yearbook of international proverb scholarship.

Download or read book Holy Deadlock and Further Ribaldries written by and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you hear the one about the newlywed who rushes off for legal advice before the honeymoon is over? Or the husbands who arrange for an enormous tub in which to cure their sugary wives with a pinch of salt? How about a participatory processional toward marriage so sacrilegious that it puts Chaucer's pilgrimage to shame? And who could have imagined a medieval series of plays devoted to spouse-swapping? Jody Enders has heard and seen all this and more, and shares it in her second volume of performance-friendly translations of medieval French farces. Carefully culled from more than two hundred extant farces, and crafted with a wit and contemporary sensibility that make them playable half a millennium later, these dozen bawdy plays take on the hilariously depressing and depressingly hilarious state of holy wedlock. In fifteenth- and sixteenth-century comedy, love and marriage do not exactly go together like a horse and carriage. What with all the arranged matches of child brides to doddering geezers, the frustration, fear, anxiety, jealousy, disappointment, and despair are matched only by the eagerness with which everybody sings, dances, and cavorts in the pursuit of deception, trickery, and adultery. Easily recognizable stock characters come vividly to life, struggling to negotiate the limits of power, class, and gender, each embodying the distinctive blend of wit, social critique, and breathless boisterousness that is farce. Whether the antics play out on the fifteenth-century stage or the twenty-first-century screen, Enders notes, comedy revels in shining its brightest spotlight on the social and legal questions of what makes a family. Her volume defines and redefines love and marriage with a message that no passage of time can tear asunder: social change finds its start where comedy itself begins—at home.

Download or read book Catalogue or alphabetical index written by New York city, Astor libr and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: