Proverbs are Never Out of Season Wolfgang Mieder

Name: Proverbs are Never Out of Season von Wolfgang Mieder
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Proverbs are Never Out of Season Wolfgang Mieder

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Zusammenfassung

The author examines the uses to which proverbs have been put - political propaganda, advertising and medical superstition - and their role in the modern world. Ranging from regional proverbs to Americanizations and homespun wisdom, the book illustrates the place of proverbs in popular culture.

Proverbs are Never Out of Season Zusammenfassung

Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder

The author of this text examines the uses to which proverbs have been put - political propaganda, advertising and medical superstition - and their role in the modern world. Ranging from regional proverbs to Americanizations and homespun wisdom, the book also contains 36 halftones that illustrate the place of proverbs in popular culture.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

27.50), is widely regarded as the world's leading paremiologist (or proverbs expert!) In this entertaining new book, he looks at the uses to which proverbs have been put - political propaganda, advertising, and medical superstition - and their role in the modern world. Ranging from regional proverbs ('Vermont has two seasons - winter and the Fourth of July') to Americanizations ('Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater'), and homespun wisdom ('An apple a day keeps the doctor away'), the book also contains 36 black-and-white halftones illustrating the place of proverbs in popular culture.

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GOR004112639

ISBN 13

9780195077285

ISBN 10

0195077288

Titel

Proverbs are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age Wolfgang Mieder

Autor

Wolfgang Mieder

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Bindung

Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

Oxford University Press Inc

Datum

19930506

Anzahl der Seiten

302

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