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Proverbs Are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age

Proverbs Are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age

Mieder, Wolfgang
Dundes, Carolyn
Mieder, Wolfgang

Paperback

Series: International Folkloristics, Book 7

English as a Second LanguageGeneral ReferenceAnthropology

ISBN10: 1433119919
ISBN13: 9781433119910
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: May 25 2012
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
This book takes an engaging look at the significance of traditional proverbs and their variation in the modern world. From sales pitch to propagandistic tool, Wolfgang Mieder looks at how we adapt proverbs to rapidly changing social attitudes - the original wording of proverbs changes to fit modern advertising slogans or political rhetoric, misogynist sayings become feminist slogans, and late medieval woodcuts illustrating proverbs find their modern equivalents in political cartoons and comic strips. The book is richly illustrated and contains name, subject, and proverb indexes.

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