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This Festschrift for Wolfgang Mieder, preeminent paremiologist and folklorist, combines personal tributes and scholarly papers by colleagues, friends, and former students - presented in three categories that address his roles as a mentor, scholar, and world citizen over many decades.
The central scholarly section likewise consists of three parts. The papers dealing with proverbs examine them as patterns, stereotypes, rhetorical devices, media for self-enchantment, and means of allusion in works by Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, Chukovskaya, and Kempowski. A second group deals with fairy-tale motifs in literary works by Lehmann, Rabinowich, and Hummel. A third section includes topics ranging from James Bond to Stephen King, from runaway slaves to the Holocaust, and literature as cultural ecology.
List of contents
Tributes, mentor, scholar, world citizen, proverbs, fairy tales, literature, holocaust, slavery, cultural ecology, ethics OR: Wolfgang Mieder as mentor, as scholar, as world citizen,
About the author
Andreas Nolte studied German at the University of Vermont (USA) und received his Ph.D. from the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Germany).
Dennis F. Mahoney is an emeritus professor of German at the University of Vermont (USA) and the first non-German president of the International Novalis Society.
