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Author: Kevin J. McKenna Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9781433104893 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 326
Book Description
With more than one hundred-fifty books and three hundred published articles on proverb studies that have attracted wide attention of folklorists around the world, it is little wonder that international scholars look upon Wolfgang Mieder as the modern-day Pied Piper of paremiology. For this festschrift, some of the world's leading proverb and folklore scholars have come together to commemorate Mieder's sixty-fifth birthday. Authors from Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, Israel, and the United States have contributed essays representative of the scope and breadth of Mieder's own impressive scholarship. The Proverbial «Pied Piper» honors Wolfgang Mieder's legendary contributions to the study of proverbs and contains new scholarship by some of the best paremiologists in the world.
Author: Kevin J. McKenna Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9781433104893 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 326
Book Description
With more than one hundred-fifty books and three hundred published articles on proverb studies that have attracted wide attention of folklorists around the world, it is little wonder that international scholars look upon Wolfgang Mieder as the modern-day Pied Piper of paremiology. For this festschrift, some of the world's leading proverb and folklore scholars have come together to commemorate Mieder's sixty-fifth birthday. Authors from Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, Israel, and the United States have contributed essays representative of the scope and breadth of Mieder's own impressive scholarship. The Proverbial «Pied Piper» honors Wolfgang Mieder's legendary contributions to the study of proverbs and contains new scholarship by some of the best paremiologists in the world.
Author: Wolfgang Mieder Publisher: Greenwood ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 216
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Offers a comprehensive overview of story of the Pied Piper, exploring the origins of the story, the various forms of the legend, its influence on literary history, and other related topics.
Author: Wolfgang Mieder Publisher: Greenwood ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 216
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Offers a comprehensive overview of story of the Pied Piper, exploring the origins of the story, the various forms of the legend, its influence on literary history, and other related topics.
Author: Kay Brown Publisher: ISBN: 9780861630042 Category : Fairy tales Languages : en Pages : 32
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The tale of the town of Hamelin which was overrun with rats. A stranger said he could rid the town of rats with his magical piping and the townspeople agreed to pay the piper. However, when the people would not honour the agreement after all the rats were drowned the piper, in revenge, lures away the children of the town.
Author: Eric Blair Publisher: Capstone Classroom ISBN: 1404873627 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 18
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The Pied Piper pipes a village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he pipes away their children as well.
Author: Wolfgang Mieder Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317376854 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 309
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In this book, first published in 1987, Wolfgang Mieder follows the intriguing trail of some of the best known pieces of folk literature, tracing them from their roots to modern uses in advertising, journalism, politics, cartoons, and poetry. He reveals both the remarkable adaptability of these tales and how each variation reflects cultural and historical changes. Fairy tales, legends, folk songs, riddles, nursery rhymes, and proverbs are passed from generation to generation, changing both in form and meaning with each use. This book will be of interest to students of literature.
Author: Robert Browning Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd. ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 175
Book Description
The Pied Piper piped the village free of rats, and when the villagers refused to pay him for the service, he piped away the chidlren, too.