Wise words : essays on the proverb /
edited by Wolfgang Mieder.
- New York : Garland, (c)1994.
- xxiii, 582 pages ; 23 cm.
- Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1638 Garland folklore casebooks ; vol. 6 .
Collection of twenty essays previously published in various journals and books between 1973 and 1993.
The Perception of Proverbiality / Shirley L. Arora -- Foundations of Semiotic Proverb Study / Peter Grzybek -- The Linguistic Status of the Proverb / David Cram -- Analogic Ambiguity: A Paradox of Proverb Usage / Michael D. Lieber -- Do Proverbs Contradict? / Kwesi Yankah -- Proverbial Perlocutions: How to Do Things with Proverbs / Neal R. Norrick -- Psychological Approaches to Proverbs: A Treatise on the Import of Context / Tim B. Rogers -- Slurs International: Folk Comparisons of Ethnicity and National Character / Alan Dundes -- Proverbs and Social History / James Obelkevich -- Bruegel's Proverb Painting: Renaissance Art for a Humanist Audience / Margaret A. Sullivan -- Paremiological Minimum and Cultural Literacy / Wolfgang Mieder -- The Pragmatics of Proverb Performances in New Mexican Spanish / Charles L. Briggs -- Chamula Tzotzil Proverbs: Neither Fish nor Fowl / Gary H. Gossen -- Proverb Performance in the Hebrew Bible / Carole R. Fontaine.
A compilation of 20 major folklore essays on proverbs published between 1973 and 1993; all are in English, but come from North America, Britain, Germany, and Africa. Among the topics are the foundations of semiotic study, psychological approaches, folk comparisons of ethnicity and national characte.