Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans

by Edwin Miller Fogel

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Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans is a follow-up and companion volume to Edwin Miller Fogel's 1915 publication Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans. This volume focuses on the proverb in its broadest sense, including adages, aphorisms, and some appropriate idiomatic expressions. This "spontaneous expression of experience," so widely used in the Germanic linguistic tradition, is in Fogel's words "the very bone...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0271036451

ISBN13:9780271036458

Release Date:September 2009

Publisher:Metalmark Books

Length:236 Pages

Weight:0.77 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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