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UNINA9910787013003321 |
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Autore |
Mieder Wolfgang |
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Behold the proverbs of a people : proverbial wisdom in culture, literature, and politics / / Wolfgang Mieder |
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Jackson, Mississippi : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-62846-141-1 |
1-62674-076-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (500 p.) |
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SOC041000SOC002010LAN015000 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Proverbs - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book focuses on the field of paremiology (proverb studies) in general, the spread of Anglo-American proverbs in Europe, and the phenomenon of modern proverbs. The second section analyzes the use of proverbs in the world of politics, including a chapter on President Obama, while the third concentrates on the uses of proverbs in literature. The final section ends with detailed cultural studies of the origin, history, dissemination, use, function, and meaning of specific proverbs.Noted scholar Wolfgang Mieder shows that proverbs matter in culture, literature, and politics. Proverbs remain part and parcel of oral and written communication, and, he demonstrates, they deserve to be studied from a range of viewpoints. While various chapters deal with a variety of issues and approaches, they cohere through a rhetorical perspective that looks at the text, texture, and context of proverbs as speech acts that make a noteworthy impact on culture and society. Whether proverbs appear in everyday speech, on the radio, on television, in films, on the pages of newspapers or magazines, in advertisements, in |
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literary works, or in political speeches, they serve as formulaic verbal devices to add authoritative weight through tradition, convention, and wisdom"-- |
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UNINA9910778490803321 |
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Autore |
Rau Petra |
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English modernism, national identity and the Germans, 1890-1950 [[electronic resource] /] / by Petra Rau |
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Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2009 |
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1-317-14302-7 |
1-315-57977-4 |
1-317-14301-9 |
1-282-29522-5 |
9786612295225 |
0-7546-9695-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (244 p.) |
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Collana |
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Nineteenth Century Series |
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820.9 |
820.9/355 |
820.935293109034 |
820.9'352931'09034-dc22 |
820.9355 |
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English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
National characteristics, British, in literature |
English fiction - German influences |
Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain |
Germany Foreign public opinion, British |
Germany In literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'A Sickening Suggestion of Common Guilt'German Renegades and English Heroes in Conrad's Fiction; 2 Forster's Accessible Foreignness Prussian |
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Junkers versus 'German Cosmopolitans'; 3 Flirting with the Beastly HunImperial Anxiety and Modern Militarism in the Popular Fiction of Buchan, Le Queux and Saki; 4 Ford's 'Tricky German Fashion'Medical Modernity and Anglo-Saxon Pathology; 5 'Monster Men and Women'Woolf's Grotesque German Body and Lawrence's 'Bad' Modernity |
6 'The Soldiers of Modernism'The Lure of Fascist Corporeality in Travel Writing and Fiction7 'The Thinning of the Membrane Between the This and the That': Englishness and Espionage in Blitz Writing; Select Bibliography; Index |
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This is the first systematic analysis of the relationship between representations of 'Germanness' in modernist British literature, the construction of English identity and the negotiation of modernity. Major figures such as Conrad, Woolf and Ford are examined alongside popular or less-familiar writers such as Saki and Stevie Smith. Rau's book will be invaluable to scholars and will serve undergraduates working in modernism, literary history, and European cultural relations. |
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