WOLFGANG MIEDER
INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NEW AND
REPRINTED PROVERB COLLECTIONS, 1994*
The first ten volumes of Proverbium (1984-1993) have registered a total of 725 new and reprinted proverb
collections from around the world. While not all of them are
major scholarly achievements, this impressive number is
nevertheless a clear indication of the energetic
paremiographical work that is going on. Some of the
illustrated collections are mere "fun" books for tourists or
to be given as gifts, but they too play a role in
disseminating proverbs from one culture and language to
another. Of much greater importance are, of course, such
collections which follow rigid paremiographical and
lexicographical principles. Among the list of 96 titles
assembled here this time, there are certainly several
extremely important collections, as for example Giuseppe Di
Stefano's Dictionnaire des locutions en moyen
français (1991), Mark Kirchner's, Sprichwörter der Kasachen (1993), Matti Kuusi and Outi Lauhakangas' Maailman sananlaskuviisaus (1993),
and P.R. Wilkinson's Thesaurus of Traditional
English Metaphors (1992).
As has always been the case, I
have once again benefitted from the bibliographical help by
such kind colleagues and friends as Simon J. Bronner
(Middletown, Pennsylvania), Gyula Paczolay
(Veszprém), Theodore Papadopoullos (Athens),
Stanislaw Predota (Wroclaw), and Helmut Walther (Wiesbaden).
Others have mailed me their respective proverb collections,
and I urge other paremiographers to send me their published
collections or at least information concerning them. With
this assistance it will be possible for me to make these
annual bibliographies even more inclusive. Regional,
national, and international paremiographers need solid
proverb collections, and this yearly bibliography is an
effective way of informing everybody of the newest
paremiographical publications. The result will be even
better comparative and historical proverb dictionaries, and
obviously such collections will enhance the interpretive
work of paremiologists as well. No scholar can afford to
work in a vacuum, and the expressed purpose of Proverbium is to continue to serve
proverb scholars everywhere as an up-to-date
publication.
The full text of this
bibliography is published in De
Proverbio - Issue
1:1995, an
electronic book, available from amazon.com and other leading Internet booksellers.
Agel, Jerome, and Walter D.
Glanze. Cleopatra's Nose, the Twinkie Defense, &
1500 Other Verbal Shortcuts in Popular Parlance. New
York: Prentice Hall Press, 1990. 266 pp.
Ammer, Christine. Seeing Red or
Tickled Pink: Color Terms in Everyday Language. New
York: Dutton, 1992. 215 pp.
Andrews, Robert. The Columbia
Dictionary of Quotations. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1993. 1092 pp.
Armalinskii, Mikhail. Russkie
besstyzhie poslovitsy i pogovorki. Minneaplois,
Minnesota: M.I.P. Company, 1992. 74 pp.
Bárdosi, Vilmos, Stefan
Ettinger, and Cécile Stölting. Redewendungen Französisch-Deutsch: Thematisches
Wörter- und Übungsbuch. Tübingen: A.
Francke, 1992. 259 pp.
Beilenson, John P. Proverbs for
Daily Living. White Plains, New York: Peter Pauper
Press, 1992. 80 pp.
Benawa, A.R. Pashto
Proverbs. Translated into English by A.M. Shinwari.
Kabul: Government Printing Press, 1979. 460
pp.
Bergmann, Gunter. "'Geh nich zu
dein' Ferscht, wenn de nich gerufen werscht!'
[Sächsische Sprichwörter und
Redensarten]." In G. Bergmann. Polyglott-Sprachführer: Sächsisch.
München: Polyglott-Verlag, 1992. 28-34.
Berndt, Jürgen (ed.). Gutes ist am besten gleich getan: 100
Sprichwörter aus Japan. Mit 100 Kalligraphien
von Suiko Simon. Berlin: edition q, 1992. 208
pp.
Bertram, Anne, and Richard A.
Spears (eds.). NTC's Dictionary of Proverbs and
Clichés. Lincolnwood, Illinois: National
Textbook Company, 1993. 321 pp.
Cabakula, Mwamba. Dictionnaire
des proverbes africains. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1992.
304 pp.
Collis, Harry. 101 American
English Proverbs: Understanding Language and Culture
Through Commonly Used Sayings. Lincolnwood, Illinois:
Passport Books, 1992. 105 pp.
Cribier, Jacqueline, Martine
Dreyfus, and Mamadou Gueye. Léébu:
proverbes wolof. Paris: edicef, 1986. 130
pp.
The full text of this
bibliography is published in De
Proverbio - Issue
1:1995, an
electronic book, available from amazon.com and other leading Internet booksellers.
Weckmann, Berthold (ed.). Alles
Gute kommt von oben. Biblische Sprichwörter.
Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker, 1993. 95 pp.
Weininger, Simon. Vielsprachige, komparative
Sprichwörtersammlung. Illustriert von Paul
Fuchs. Jerusalem: Hamakor Press, 1992. 64 pp.
Wild, Katharina.
"Sprichwörter in Bawazer Mundart." Beiträge
zur Volkskunde der Ungarndeutschen. Ed. Karoly
Manherz. Budapest: Lehrbuchverlag -
Tankönyvkiadó, 1982. 235-251.
Wilkes, G.A. A Dictionary of
Australian Colloquialisms. 3rd. revised ed. Sydney:
Sydney University Press, 1990 (1st ed. 1978). 362
pp.
Wilkinson, P.R. Thesaurus of
Traditional English Metaphors. London: Routledge,
1992. 777 pp.
Woods, Henry F. American
Sayings: Famous Phrases, Slogans, and Aphorisms. New
York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1945; revised and enlarged
ed. New York: Perma Giants, 1950. 312 pp.
Yurtbasi, Metin. A Dictionary
of Turkish Proverbs. Ankara: Turkish Daily News,
1993. 682 pp.
Zona, Guy A. "The House of the
Heart is Never Full" and Other Proverbs of Africa.
New York: Touchstone, 1993. 128 pp.
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