Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317549236
The twenty essays that comprise this book, which was first published in 1994, were written by leading paremiologists and folklorists from Africa, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and the US. They represent the best scholarship on proverbs in the English language, and together they give an impressive overview of the fascinating advances in the field of paremiology.
Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Proverbs
ISBN : 9781317549222
Author : Stuart Berg Flexner
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Alphabetically arranged compendium of facts about the history and evolution of the most time-honored words of folk wisdom.
Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781433103780
"This book presents a composite picture of the richness of proverbs as significant expressions of folk wisdom as is manifest from their appearance in art, culture, folklore, history, literature, and the mass media. The book draws attention to the fact that proverbs as metaphorical signs continue to play an important role in oral and written communication. Proverbs as so-called monumenta humana are omnipresent in all facets of life, and while they are neither sacrosanct nor saccharine, they usually offer much common sense or wisdom based on recurrent experiences and observations."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Reginetta Haboucha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 131754935X
This monumental book, first published in 1992, represents a major contribution to Sephardic and Hispanic studies as well as to comparative folklore scholarship in a worldwide perspective. After many years of fieldwork and extensive archival investigations in Spain, Israel and the United States, the author has brought together and analysed a massive body of primary sources. This is the first collection of Sephardic narratives offered to the English-speaking reader, and constitutes an important addition to the understanding of Sephardic cultural tradition.
Author : Stuart Flexner
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 1993
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Marcel Jousse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317550250
In this book, first published in 1990, Edgard Sienaert and Richard Whitaker offer the first English translation of Marcel Jousse’s crucially important work, Le style oral. As the translators observe, this study fired the imagination of contemporary intellectuals in Paris soon after its publication and influenced the work of many. In this book, Jousse provides a thorough and detailed theoretical account of the compositional style of oral, as opposed to literate, authors, showing that the antithetical, balancing, formulaic quality of that style is deeply rooted in the psychological and even physiological nature of mankind.
Author : Martha Hamilton
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 2000-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780613358613
A collection of folktales from around the world, all featuring the character of the fool, with tips for telling the stories aloud, related activities, and source notes.
Author : Herbert Halpert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1276 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317551494
This collection of Newfoundland folk narratives, first published in 1996, grew out of extensive fieldwork in folk culture in the province. The intention was to collect as broad a spectrum of traditional material as possible, and Folktales of Newfoundland is notable not only for the number and quality of its narratives, but also for the format in which they are presented. A special transcription system conveys to the reader the accents and rhythms of each performance, and the endnote to each tale features an analysis of the narrator’s language. In addition, Newfoundland has preserved many aspects of English and Irish folk tradition, some of which are no longer active in the countries of their origin. Working from the premise that traditions virtually unknown in England might still survive in active form in Newfoundland, the researchers set out to discover if this was in fact the case.
Author : Aleksandr Nickolaevich Afanasév
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : 9785050046352
