Early American Proverbs And Proverbial Phrases
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Early American Proverbs And Proverbial Phrases
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Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1977
Early American Proverbs And Proverbial Phrases written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."
A Dictionary Of American Proverbs And Proverbial Phrases 1820 1880 Cby Archer Taylor And Bartlett Jere Whiting
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
A Dictionary Of American Proverbs And Proverbial Phrases 1820 1880 Cby Archer Taylor And Bartlett Jere Whiting written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Proverbs, English categories.
A Dictionary Of American Proverbs And Proverbial Phrases 1820 1880
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Author : Archer Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
A Dictionary Of American Proverbs And Proverbial Phrases 1820 1880 written by Archer Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Proverbs, English categories.
A Dictionary Of American Proverbs And Proverbial Phrases 1820 1880
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Author : Archer Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Belknap Press
Release Date : 2013-10-01
A Dictionary Of American Proverbs And Proverbial Phrases 1820 1880 written by Archer Taylor and has been published by Belknap Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-01 with categories.
American Proverbs
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Author : Wolfgang Mieder
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1989
American Proverbs written by Wolfgang Mieder and has been published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study represents the first comprehensive treatise of American proverbs, each chapter including an interpretative essay, a special bibliography, and numerous texts in contexts. The fifteen chapters deal with the proverb in general, American proverbs in particular, proverbs of the immigrants, proverbs current in the various states, proverbs of the Native Americans, Afro-American proverbs, Benjamin Franklin's «proverbs», proverbs in prose literature, proverb poems, proverbs in popular songs, wellerisms, proverbs in comics and cartoons, proverbs in advertisements, and a special final chapter on the modern American proverb «Different strokes for different folks». A large bibliography, three indices, and forty illustrations are included.
A Dictionary Of American Proverbs
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Author : Wolfgang Mieder
language : en
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1992
A Dictionary Of American Proverbs written by Wolfgang Mieder and has been published by New York : Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Reference categories.
Americans have a gift for coining proverbs. "A picture is worth a thousand words" was not, as you might imagine, the product of ancient Chinese wisdom -- it was actually minted by advertising executive Fred Barnard in a 1921 advertisement for Printer's Ink magazine. After all, Americans are first and foremost a practical people and proverbs can be loosely defined as pithy statements that are generally accepted as true and useful. The next logical step would be to gather all of this wisdom together for a truly American celebration of shrewd advice.A Dictionary of American Proverbs is the first major collection of proverbs in the English language based on oral sources rather than written ones. Listed alphabetically according to their most significant key word, it features over 15,000 entries including uniquely American proverbs that have never before been recorded, as well as thousands of traditional proverbs that have found their way into American speech from classical, biblical, British, continental European, and American literature. Based on the fieldwork conducted over thirty years by the American Dialect Society, this volume is complete with historical references to the earliest written sources, and supplies variants and recorded geographical distribution after each proverb.Many surprised await the reader in this vast treasure trove of wit and wisdom. Collected here are nuggets of popular wisdom on all aspects of American life: weather, agriculture, travel, money, business, food, neighbors, friends, manners, government, politics, law, health, education, religion, music, song, and dance. And, to further enhance browsing pleasure, the editors have provided a detailed guide to the use of the work. While it's true that many of our best known proverbs have been supplied by the ever-present "Anonymous," many more can be attributed to some very famous Americans, like Ernest Hemingway, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Alva Edison, Abigail Adams, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, to name but a few offered in this fascinating collection.Who wouldn't want to know the origin of "the opera ain't over till the fat lady sings?" This uniquely American proverb and many more are gathered together in A Dictionary of American Proverbs. A great resource for students and scholars of literature, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and cultural history, this endlessly intriguing volume is also a delightful companion for anyone with an interest in American culture.
The Proverb
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Author : Archer Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
The Proverb written by Archer Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Proverbs categories.
English Proverbs And Proverbial Phrases
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Author : William Carew Hazlitt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
English Proverbs And Proverbial Phrases written by William Carew Hazlitt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Proverbs, English categories.
Modern Proverbs And Proverbial Sayings
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Author : Bartlett Jere Whiting
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1989
Modern Proverbs And Proverbial Sayings written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and has been published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
A collection of British and American proverbs that are currently in use.
A Dictionary Of Anglo American Proverbs Proverbial Phrases Found In Literary Sources Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries
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Author : George B. Bryan
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2005
A Dictionary Of Anglo American Proverbs Proverbial Phrases Found In Literary Sources Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries written by George B. Bryan and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with American literature categories.
A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude of plays, (auto)biographies of well-known actors like Britain's Laurence Olivier, songs by William S. Gilbert or Lorenz Hart, and American crime stories by Leslie Charteris. Other authors represented in the dictionary are Horatio Alger, Margery Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Graham Greene, Thomas C. Haliburton, Bret Harte, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, George Orwell, Eden Phillpotts, John B. Priestley, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jesse Stuart, Oscar Wilde, and more. Many lesser-known dramatists, songwriters, and novelists are included as well, making the contextualized texts to a considerable degree representative of the proverbial language of the past two centuries. While the collection contains a proverbial treasure trove for paremiographers and paremiologists alike, it also presents general readers interested in folkloric, linguistic, cultural, and historical phenomena with an accessible and enjoyable selection of proverbs and proverbial phrases.