A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

14.07.2005

Englisch

9780820479477

Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York

Nein

Wolfgang Mieder, George B. Bryan

871

Gebundene Ausgabe

The Authors: George B. Bryan (1939-1996) was Professor of Theatre History and Wolfgang Mieder is Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont. They are both authors of numerous books and articles on various literary and folkloric topics, among them Bryan’s Black Sheep, Red Herrings, and Blue Murder: The Proverbial Agatha Christie (Peter Lang, 1993) and Mieder’s «No Struggle, No Progress»: Frederick Douglass and His Proverbial Rhetoric for Civil Rights (Peter Lang, 2001). Together they have published several books on proverbial matters, including The Proverbial Bernard Shaw (1994), The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill (1995), The Proverbial Eugene O’Neill (1995), Proverbs in World Literature: A Bibliography (Peter Lang, 1996), The Proverbial Harry S. Truman (Peter Lang, 1997), and The Proverbial Charles Dickens (Peter Lang, 1997).

Englisch, Literatur, Sprichwort, Geschichte 1800-2000, Wörterbuch, proverbs, dictionary, proverbial phrases, English, American, USA

DSBF - Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900 DSBH - Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000 DSBJ - Literaturwissenschaft: ab 2000 JBGB - Folklore-, Mythen- und Legendenforschung

Kanada, Englisch

210 mm

14.8 cm