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Russkie Poslovitsy - Russian Proverbs in Literature, Politics, and Pedagogy- Festschrift for Kevin J. McKenna in Celebration of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Hardcover, New edition)
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Russkie Poslovitsy - Russian Proverbs in Literature, Politics, and Pedagogy- Festschrift for Kevin J. McKenna in Celebration of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: International Folkloristics, 6
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This unique Festschrift in honor of Professor Kevin J. McKenna on
the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday is different from most
such celebratory essay volumes in that it does not consist of
essays from various authors but is rather 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, and during this time, he has gained national
and international recognition as an instructor, scholar, and
administrator. On the campus of his university, he has been a true
champion of international education, and he has been an inspiring
and guiding light for many students as they made impressive
progress with their Russian studies in Vermont and in Russia. While
his numerous cultural, literary, and political studies have brought
him much recognition, it is especially his seminal book All the
Views Fit to Print: Changing Images of the U.S. in "Pravda"
Political Cartoons, 1917-1991 (2001) that continues to be a
mainstay today in the study of the relationship of the United
States and the Soviet Union during the twentieth century. Of
course, Dr. McKenna has also made a name for himself as a proverb
scholar in the United States and in Europe with his paremiological
publications on the literary, journalistic, and political use of
proverbs. The edited essay volume Proverbs in Russian Literature:
From Catherine the Great to Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1998) is
especially noteworthy. The fourteen essays of this Festschrift are
divided into three groups - literature, politics, and pedagogy. The
first six essays are dedicated to the literary use and function of
proverbs in the works of Catherine the Great, Leo Tolstoy, Boris
Pasternak, Vladimir Nabokov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Sergei
Eisenstein. The next five articles deal with the use of proverbs in
Pravda headlines, the depiction of the proverb "Big fish eat little
fish" in Pravda cartoons, Russian politics in Pravda cartoons, the
image of the "Ship of State" in such cartoons, and Vladimir Putin's
employment of proverbs. The three essays in the section on pedagogy
look at the role of proverbs in the Russian language curriculum,
the appearance of proverbs in Russian language textbooks, and the
importance of the so-called paremiological minimum, that is, the
set of Russian proverbs that are known and used frequently by
native speakers and that consequently should also be learned by
foreign language students. Together these studies are
representative of Kevin J. McKenna's accomplishments as a proverb
scholar, and they also present an informed and eminently readable
introduction to the rich field of Russian proverbs.
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