Tilting at windmills
Tilting at windmills: history and meaning of a proverbial allusion to Cervantes' Don Quixote Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher: Burlington, VT : University of Vermont, 2006.
ISBN: 0977073130
LCC: PQ6353
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Fighting windmills - a polyglot phenomenon. -- The adventure of the
windmills. -- Windmills and proverbial duels. -- The proverbial
phrase "to have windmills in one's head" -- The proverbial phase "to
fight with a windmill" -- Variations of the proverbial expression "to
fight windmills" -- The survival of the windmill - episode in
cartoons and caricatures.
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