Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans

by Edwin Miller Fogel

Book Overview

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: Penn State University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"