Wise Words Essays on the Proverb - Routledge Library Editions. Folklore

Wolfgang Mieder (editor)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 the US. They represent the best scholarship on proverbs in the English language, and together they give an impressive overview of the fascinating advances in the field of paremiology.

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Book information

ISBN:	9781138844254
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	10 Feb 2015
DEWEY:	398.9
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	606
Weight:	1280g
Height:	234mm
Width:	156mm