"Right Makes Might" : Proverbs and the American Worldview /

""Right Makes Might"" is a collection of recent essays on historical and contemporary use of proverbs by American politicians, the American worldview, and American politics by globally recognized folklorist, Wolfgang Mieder.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mieder, Wolfgang (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Rhetoric > Political aspects.
Proverbs > Political aspects.
Proverbs, American.
Politics and government.
Politicians > Language.
Political oratory.
National characteristics, American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Politicians > United States > Language.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States > History.
Political oratory > United States > History.
Proverbs > Political aspects > United States.
Proverbs, American > History and criticism.
United States.
United States > Politics and government > Quotations, maxims, etc.
United States > Politics and government > Miscellanea.
Quotations.
Trivia and miscellanea.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : ruminations on authentically American proverbs
  • "Let us have faith that right makes might" : proverbial rhetoric in decisive moments of American politics
  • "These are the times that try women's souls" : the proverbial rhetoric for women's rights by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
  • "The American people rose to the occasion" : a proverbial retrospective of the Marshall Plan after seventy years
  • "Making a way out of no way" : Martin Luther King's proverbial dream for human rights
  • "Keep your eyes on the prize" : Congressman John Lewis's proverbial odyssey for civil rights
  • "I'm absolutely sure about the golden rule" : Barack Obama's proverbial audacity of hope
  • "Politics is not a spectator sport" : proverbs in the personal and political writings of Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" : Bernie Sanders's proverbial rhetoric for an American sociopolitical revolution
  • "M(R)ight makes r(m)ight" : the sociopolitical history of a contradictory proverb pair
  • "All men are created equal" : from democratic claim to proverbial game
  • "Laissez faire à Georges" and "Let George do it" : a case of paremiological polygenesis
  • "To be (all) Greek to someone" : origin, history, and meaning of an English proverbial expression.

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