Swahili proverbs are a treasure trove of cultural wisdom and insight, providing a peek into the values and beliefs of East ...

Bert O. States, professor of dramatic arts emeritus at the University of California at Santa Barbara, guides readers through the mythical land of “Proverbia,” where bits of received wisdom are both ...

A professor's embarrassing fall in front of a college class becomes a real-life lesson in learning from everyday examples.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from ...

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‘A person acts what he is when he may do what he will,’ wrote a monk in Kent at some point in the first half of the 11th century. This gnomic utterance was not of his own making — the monk in question ...

Studies in Philology has been a leader in literary scholarship since 1906. Through the whole of its history, the journal’s home has been the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the ...

The article examines the representation of women as espoused in a number of Akan (Niger-Congo, Kwa) proverbs. The objective is to analyze traditional views on the perceptions and roles of the woman in ...