Overview: Analyses different types of proverb alterations, and highlights common themes in relationship to women in Anglo-American proverb innovations.Explores how women are seen in the corpus of Anglo-AmericanThis book examines stereotypical traits of women as they are reflected in Anglo-American anti-proverbs, also known as proverb transformations, deliberate proverb innovations, alterations, parodies, variations, wisecracks, fractured proverbs, and proverb mutations. Through these sayings and witticisms the author delineates the image of women that these anti-proverbs reflect, her qualities
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