Russkie Poslovitsy

This unique Festschrift in honor of Professor Kevin J. McKenna on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday consists of a collection of fourteen of his most significant publications on proverbial matters from the last two decades. For more than twenty-five years, Professor McKenna has taught Russian language, culture, and literature at the University of Vermont.

Autorentext

Wolfgang Mieder is Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont. Like his colleague and friend Kevin J. McKenna, he is especially interested in proverbs in politics, to wit his books «No Struggle, No Progress»: Frederick Douglass and His Proverbial Rhetoric for Civil Rights (2001), «Yes We Can»: Barack Obamäs Proverbial Rhetoric (2009), and «Making a Way Out of No Way»: Martin Luther King s Sermonic Proverbial Rhetoric (2010). His two books Proverbs Are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom in the Modern World (2012) and Proverbs: A Handbook (2012) serve as surveys of the field of paremiology, that is, the study of proverbs.