Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb

Olga Matich suggests that same-sex desires underlaid Russian modernists utopian proposal of abolishing the traditional procreative family in favor of erotically induced abstinence. She focuses on the later works of Tolstoy, Vladimir Solov'ev, Zinaida Gippius, Alexander Blok, and Vasilii Rozanov.

Author: Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 04/01/2005
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780299143640

About the Author
Wolfgang Mieder is professor of German and folklore and chair of the Department of German and Russian at the University of Vermont. Author of more than sixty books on folklore and proverbs, including Proverbs Are Never Out of Season and Howl Like a Wolf: Animal Proverbs, Mieder is co-editor of A Dictionary of American Proverbs and A Dictionary of Wellerisms. Alan Dundes is professor of folklore and anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley. His books available from the University of Wisconsin Press include Parsing through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist and several folklore casebooks: The Cockfight, The Evil Eye, The Blood Libel Legend, Cinderella, and Little Red Riding Hood.