Lexicon of Common Figurative Units
Elisabeth Piirainen - Hardback
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GEORGE B. BRYAN is Professor of Theatre at the University of Vermont./e He has published several reference books on theatrical biography, the latest of which are Ethel Merman: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, 1992), and Stage Deaths: A Biographical Guide to International Theatrical Obituaries, 1850 to 1990 (Greenwood, 1991). Bryan's Black Sheep, Red Herrings, and Blue Murder: The Proverbial Agatha Christie (1993) appeared in a series under the general editorship of Wolfgang Mieder.
WOLFGANG MIEDER is Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont. His many books include A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1992), Proverbs are Never out of Season (1993), The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill (Greenwood, 1995), (1997), and numerous others. He is also the editor of Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship.