The proverbial "Pied piper"
Subtitle: a festschrift volume of essays in honor of Wolfgang Mieder on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday
By: edited by Kevin J. McKenna.
Contributors: McKenna, Kevin J.; Mieder, Wolfgang.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781433104893
Subjects: Proverbs -- History and criticism
Description: "With more than one hundred-fifty books and three hundred published articles on proverb studies that have attracted wide attention of folklorists around the world, it is little wonder that international scholars look upon Wolfgang Mieder as the modern-day Pied Piper of paremiology. For this festschrift, some of the world's leading proverb and folklore scholars have come together to commemorate Mieder's sixty-fifth birthday. Authors from Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, Israel, and the United States have contributed essays representative of the scope and breadth of Mieder's own impressive scholarship. The Proverbial "Pied Piper" honors Wolfgang Mieder's legendary contributions to the study of proverbs and contains new scholarship by some of the best paremiologists in the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Lively representing the proverbs: a pack of late seventeenth-century English playing cards engraved with proverb representations / Malcolm Jones; title: Zipper Stories; title: / Jan Brunvand; title: Crossover proverbs: a preliminary sampling / Shirley L. Arora; title: "Dirty words": nomenclature practices and the African Human Genome Project / Robert J. Gordon; title: Vox populi: parody and political proverbs / Kimberly J. Lau; title: From mochit' to koshmarit': some observations about Russian political language, 1999-2008 / Andrey Reznikov; title: Some essentials on the popularity of (American) proverbs / Peter Grzybek and Christoph Chlosta; title: From a structural semantic analysis towards a computational proverb classification framework / Galit Hasan-Rokem and Pavel Kats; title: The Chinese sources of common far-eastern proverbs / Gyula Paczolay; title: "The pun is mightier than the sword": types of punning in Anglo-American anti-proverbs / Anna T. Litovkina; title: Proverbial and anti-proverbial variants of on ne peut pas avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre / Peter Barta; title: A modern thesaurus of Russian proverbs: principles and problems / Valerij Mokienko; title: A few remarks on Piedmontese proverbs / Antonella Borra; title: Zur bersetzung italienischer Sprichworter im PONS Grossworterbuch Italienisch / Adriana Borra; title: Bulgarian paremiography / Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt; title: Questioning the rod: Male mastery and female resistance in Winsbeckin, Mgf 474 / Olga V. Trokhimenko; title: 'El llanto en el buen varon, nobleza, coraje y gran corazon': Un proverbio ausente en la paremiologa hispínica / Juan Francisco Maura; title: "The bird and the fish can fall in love: proverbs and anti-proverbs as variations on the theme of racial and cultural intermingling in The time of our singing / Dennis F. Mahoney; title: "Mir konnte Niemand mehr Sprichworter Worte vormachen" Otto Grünmandl's Critique of proverbial language in his novel Das ministerium für Sprichwörter (1970) / Helga Schreckenberger; title: Proverbes, sentences et pedagogie: Sergej Nikolaevi_ Glinka et Le Comte F.E. Anhalt / Stophane Viellard; title: Proverbs and the folk tale in the Russian cinema: the case of Sergei Eisenstein's film classic Aleksandr Nevsky / Kevin J. McKenna.