Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Wolfgang Mieder
yhteensä 70 hakutulosta
«Mir Ist Zuweilen So ALS OB Das Herz in Mir Zerbrach»
Die Dichterin Mascha Kal ko (1907-1975) fl chtete nach gro en literarischen Erfolgen in Berlin im Jahre 1938 aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland ins amerikanische Exil und …
Behold the Proverbs of a People
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 …
The Magic Love
This book presents a unique collection of fairy tales from contemporary China, translated into English for the first time. Demonstrating the continuity of oral tradition throughout …
"e;Right Makes Might"e;
"e;A powerful and timely addition to the literature of rhetoric and folklore."e; -ChoiceIn 1860, Abraham Lincoln employed the proverb Right makes might-opposite of the more …
Sprichwort-Gebrauch Heute
Sprichwoerter pragen in charakteristischer Weise Politik, Werbung, Massenmedien und nicht zuletzt unseren sprachlichen Alltag. Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Sprichwort-Gebrauch …
A Rising Tide Lifts All the Boats
The book is based on eight thousand pages of former President John F. Kennedy’s printed communications, including his books, innumerable speeches, addresses, press conferences, …
Essays on German Literature and the Holocaust
A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti
New essays providing a comprehensive scholarly introduction to the great writer and thinker Canetti. The Bulgarian-born scholar and author Elias Canetti was one of the most astute …
"Keine Rose ohne Dornen", sagte der Hase, als er die Igelin freite
Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages
This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs. Proverbs are by no means fossilized texts but …
The Politics of Proverbs
Politicians from classical to modern times have deployed proverbs effectively in their rhetoric. This text considers the power of these bits of borrowed wisdom using examples such …
Wise Words (RLE Folklore)
The 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 …