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"Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words": Folk Wisdom in Art, ...
Wolfgang MiederFolk Wisdom in Art, Culture, Folklore, History, Literature and Mass Media Wolfgang Mieder. ii See the hundreds of publications on the use and function of proverbs in more recent times in Wolfgang Mieder, International Proverb Scholarship: An ...
Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature
Wolfgang MiederIn this book, first published in 1987, Wolfgang Mieder follows the intriguing trail of some of the best known pieces of folk literature, tracing them from their roots to modern uses in advertising, journalism, politics, cartoons, and poetry ...
Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature
Wolfgang MiederIn this book, first published in 1987, Wolfgang Mieder follows the intriguing trail of some of the best known pieces of folk literature, tracing them from their roots to modern uses in advertising, journalism, politics, cartoons, and poetry ...
International Proverb Scholarship: An Annotated ...
Wolfgang MiederThis bibliography is a continuation of the three previous volumes of Wolfgang Mieder's International Proverb Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography (1982, 1990, 1993).
The Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb
Wolfgang MiederThe Wisdom of Manyexplores research on proverbs of many cultures.
Proverbs: A Handbook
Wolfgang MiederDefines and classifies proverbs, and explores their occurrence in oral tradition, literature, art, and popular culture.
A Dictionary of American Proverbs
Wolfgang MiederContains over 15,000 proverbs used in the United States and Canada which have British, classical, Biblical, and European origins
The Politics of Proverbs: From Traditional Wisdom to ...
Wolfgang MiederBy exposing the use and function of the proverb in political rhetoric, this book alerts readers to the possibilities and dangers--and the expressive power--of these not so quaint sayings.
The Pied Piper: A Handbook
Wolfgang MiederOverviews the history of the Pied Piper legend and discusses its lasting significance in literature, art, popular culture, and political criticism.
"No Struggle, No Progress": Frederick Douglass and His ...
Wolfgang MiederAnalyzes the use of biblical and folk proverbs used by the great abolitionist and orator and includes an extensive key word index to the expressions used by Douglass.
Wise Words (RLE Folklore): Essays on the Proverb
Wolfgang MiederThe 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 ...
Wise Words (RLE Folklore): Essays on the Proverb
Wolfgang MiederThe 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 ...
"Yes We Can": Barack Obama's Proverbial Rhetoric
Wolfgang MiederThis book examines how Obama’s natural and authentic reliance on traditional metaphors enhances his impressive rhetoric, rather than reducing it to mere sound bites.
Twisted Wisdom: Modern Anti-Proverbs
Wolfgang MiederThis book of parodied proverbs represents the first collection of such twisted or anti-proverbs in the English language.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Gr. 6-9
PreviewWas it a trick? Was it a miracle? Wolfgang played the violin and nobody knew when he first tried his hand at the instrument. Wolfgang had an incredible feel for absolute pitch and could sense right away when an instrument was out of tune.
Wolfgang Capito: From Humanist to Reformer
James M. KittelsonCHAPTER ONE A HUMANIST'S BEGINNINGS Like so many who attain some prominence later in life, Wolfgang Capito seemed to enjoy recalling the poverty of his origins. Over fifty years after his birth as Wolfgang Kopfel in 1478 in Hagenau ...
Wolfgang Puck Makes It Easy: Delicious Recipes for Your Home ...
Wolfgang PuckEvery element of the book aims to make it incredibly easy to create great food of the highest quality and creativity, as only Wolfgang Puck can do.
Key texts of peace studies
PreviewWolfgang Dietrich, Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, Norbert Koppensteiner. A Call for Many Peaces* Wolfgang Dietrich and Wolfgang Sützl The question "Is small beautiful?" was central to the life and thought of Leopold Kohr1, to whom the 1997 ...
Emancipación o violencia : pacifismo estético en Gianni Vattimo
Wolfgang SützlWolfgang Sützl. Wolfgang Sützl Emancipación o violencia acifismo estético en Gianni Vattimo Icaria POLITICA Wolfgang Sützl es filósofo, teórico político e investigador par la. Front Cover.
Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hans Mersmann. I768 " LA FINTA SEMPLICE " 3 ( which chanced to lie before him), and upon the mere bass played the most beautiful melody, so that all were thrown into the extremest amazement. In a word , what ...
Den frischen Ankömmling Wolfgang von Goethe begrüsst belehrt ...
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe. Knabe du siehest ... Steinchen um Steinchen verzettelt die Welt, \Vissende haben s' zusammen gestellt; Trittst du begierig zu Sälen herein, Siehst du zuerst nicht den Stein vor dem Stein. Doch unterscheidest ...
Wolfgang Sievers
Helen EnnisWolfgang Sievers' other memories of life under the Nazis included the following fragments. One evening, when travelling on the elevated railway after attending Greek lessons with his girlfriend, he saw the Reichstag burning. On another ...
Wolfgang Tillmans
Julie AultFew artists have changed the manner in which photographic images are made, read, and received in the past two decades as much as Wolfgang Tillmans. Since the mid-1980s, he has reinterpreted representational genres from portraiture to ...
Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
Yona Zeldis McDonoughBorn in Austria in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his first piece of music, a minuet, when he was just five years old!
The Life and Times of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
John BankstonAs a little boy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began writing musical compositions when most kids his age were still learning to read.
Legal Normativity in the Resolution of Internal Armed Conflict
Philipp KastnerAs Wolfgang Dietrich and Wolfgang Sützl claim, “This kind of idea of salvation is in itself intellectual violence because it simply lacks respect for otherness and its secrets”.779 This vision of peace as a continuous process instead of a condition ...
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