Untying the Knot

On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

AvGalit Hasan-Rokem,David Shulman,Professor of Folklore) Hasan-Rokem, Galit (Professor of Folklore,both of Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Shulman, David (Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion, Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion,David Dean Shulman

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Untying the Knot collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture.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 prophecy, proverbs, and dreams. In this way, they begin to answer how riddles relate to the conceptual structures of a particular culture, and how they come to represent a culture's cosmology or cognitive map of the world. More importantly, these essays reveal the human need for symbolic ordering--riddles being one such form of cultural ritual.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1997-01-23
Mått232 x 154 x 22 mm
Vikt463 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor344
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780195108569

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