Proverbs.a.Handbook.pdf

Proverbs: A Handbook

Wolfgang Mieder

GREENWOOD PRESS

Proverbs

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Westport, Connecticut • London

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mieder, Wolfgang.

Proverbs : a handbook / Wolfgang Mieder.

p. cm.—(Greenwood folklore handbooks, ISSN 1549–733X)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0–313–32698–3

1. Proverbs—History and criticism. I. Title. II. Series.

PN6401.M487 2004

398.9 09—dc22 2004007988

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.

reproduced, by any process or technique, without the

express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2004007988

ISBN: 0–313–32698–3

ISSN: 1549–733X

First published in 2004

Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881

An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

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Printed in the United States of America

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Information Standards Organization (Z39.48–1984).

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