The Proverbial «Pied Piper»

The Editor: Kevin J. McKenna is Professor of Russian Language, Literature, and Culture in the German and Russian Department at the University of Vermont. McKenna is the author or co-author of three books and numerous scholarly articles published in professional journals related to Russian and Soviet studies.

Contents: Jürgen Kleist: Also Der Mieder – Malcolm Jones: Lively Representing the Proverbs: A Pack of Late Seventeenth-Century English Playing Cards Engraved with Proverb Representations – Jan Brunvand: Zipper Stories – Shirley L. Arora: Crossover Proverbs: A Preliminary Sampling – Robert J. Gordon: «Dirty Words»: Nomenclature Practices and the African Human Genome Project – Kimberly J. Lau: Vox Populi: Parody and Political Proverbs – Andrey Reznikov: From Mochit’ to Koshmarit’: Some Observations about Russian Political Language, 1999-2008 – Peter Grzybek/Christoph Chlosta: Some Essentials on the Popularity of (American) Proverbs – Galit Hasan-Rokem/Pavel Kats: From a Structural Semantic Analysis Towards a Computational Proverb Classification Framework – Gyula Paczolay: The Chinese Sources of Common Far-Eastern Proverbs – Anna T. Litovkina: «The Pun is Mightier than the Sword»: Types of Punning in Anglo-American Anti-proverbs – Péter Barta: Proverbial and Anti-Proverbial Variants of On ne peut pas avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre – Valerij Mokienko: Современный Тезаурус Русских Пословиц: Принципы И Проблемы (A Modern Thesaurus of Russian Proverbs: Principles and Problems) – Antonella Borra: A Few Remarks on Piedmontese Proverbs – Adriana Borra: Zur Übersetzung italienischer Sprichwörter im PONS Grosswörterbuch Italienisch – Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt: Bulgarian Paremiography – Olga V. Trokhimenko: Questioning the Rod: Male Mastery and Female Resistance in Winsbeckin, mgf 474 – Juan Francisco Maura: ‘El llanto en el buen varón, nobleza, coraje y gran corazón’: Un proverbio ausente en la paremiología hispánica – Dennis F. Mahoney: «The Bird and the Fish Can Fall in Love…»: Proverbs and Anti-Proverbs as Variations on the Theme of Racial and Cultural Intermingling in The Time of Our Singing – Helga Schreckenberger: «Mir konnte Niemand mehr Sprichwörter für Worte vormachen»: Otto Grünmandl’s Critique of Proverbial Language in His Novel Das Ministerium für Sprichwörter (1970) – Stéphane Viellard : Proverbes, sentences et pédagogie : Sergej Nikolaevič Glinka et Le Comte F. E. Anhalt – Kevin J. McKenna: Proverbs and the Folk Tale in the Russian Cinema: The Case of Sergei Eisenstein’s Film Classic Aleksandr Nevsky – Wolfgang Mieder: Publication Record (1972-2008).