Marriage Seen through Proverbs and Anti-Proverbs

Anna T. Litovkina is currently Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at J. Selye University, Slovakia. In addition to more than one hundred articles, she is the author of eighteen books on proverbs and humour, including Old Proverbs Never Die, They Just Diversify: A Collection of Anti-Proverbs (with Wolfgang Mieder, 2006) and Women through Anti-Proverbs (2018). She is also the co-editor of eleven volumes on humour.Wolfgang Mieder is University Distinguished Professor of German and Folklore in the Department of German and Russian at the University of Vermont at Burlington, USA. He is the founding editor of the Proverbium yearbook. His publications include the books International Bibliography of Paremiology and Phraseology (2009), The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs (with C. Doyle and F. Shapiro, 2012), “Behold the Proverbs of a People”: Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics (2014), and “Right Makes Might”: Proverbs and the American Worldview (2019).