Untying the Knot On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes

Name: Untying the Knot On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
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ISBN: 9780195101867

ISBN-10: 0195101863

ISBN-13: 9780195101867

Edition: 1996

Authors: Galit Hasan-Rokem, David Shulman

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This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and religion and literature scholars consider riddling practices in Hebrew, Finnish, Indian languages, Chinese, and classical Greek. The authors seek to understand the peculiar expressive power of the riddle, and the cultural logic of its particular uses; they scrutinize the riddle's logical structure and linguistic strategies, as well as its affinity to neighboring genres such as enigmas, puzzles, oracular…

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List price: $230.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/28/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 340
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.49" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Velcheru Narayana Rao is Visiting Distinguished Professor of South Asian Studies at Emory University.David Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.



Contributors



General and Theoretical



Introduction




Riddles and Their Use




Traps of Trans-formation: Theoretical Convergences between Riddle and Ritual




"I'll Give You Three Guesses": The Dynamics of Genre in the Riddle Tale




Hebrew Riddles



Toward a Theory of the Literary Riddle




"Spinning Threads of Sand": Riddles as Images of Loss in the Midrash on Lamentations




A King, a Queen, and the Riddle Between: Riddles and Interpretation in a Late Midrashic Text




Enigmatic Modes in India



The Yaksa's Questions




When Is a Riddle Not a Riddle? Some Comments on Riddling and Related Poetic Devices in Classical Sanskrit




Why an Allama Poem Is Not a Riddle: An Anthological Essay




Texture and Authority: Telugu Riddles and Enigmas




Enigmas of Sexual Masquerade in Hindu Myths and Tales




Chinese Riddling



Riddle and Enigma in Chinese Civilization




Riddles in The Dream of the Red Chamber




Notes from the West



One Voice and Many Legs: Oedipus and the Riddle of the Sphinx




Myth as Enigma: Cultural Hermeneutics in Late Antiquity




Squaring the Circle




Connecting through Riddles, or The Riddle of Connecting



Afterword



Author Index


Subject Index