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 Format: Paperback, 329 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195108566
Release Date: Jan 9, 2002
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Title Untying the Knot collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle -- a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture.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 scholars of religion and literature consider riddling 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 seek to show how riddles relate to the conceptual structures of particular cultures, and how they come to represent a culture's cosmology or cognitive map of the world.
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| | | |  | | | | Contributors | | | 1 | Introduction | 3 | | 2 | Riddles and Their Use | 10 | | 3 | Traps of Trans-formation: Theoretical Covergences between Riddle and Ritual | 37 | | 4 | "I'll Give You Three Guesses": The Dynamics of Genre in the Riddle Tale | 62 | | 5 | Toward a Theory of the Literary Riddle | 81 | | 6 | "Spinning Threads of Sand": Riddles as Images of Loss in the Midrash on Lamentations | 109 | | 7 | A King, a Queen, and the Riddle Between: Riddles and Interpretation in a Late Midrashic Text | 125 | | 8 | The Yaksa's Questions | 151 | | 9 | When Is a Riddle Not a Riddle? Some Comments on Riddling and Related Poetic Devices in Classical Sanskrit | 168 | | 10 | Why an Allama Poem Is Not a Riddle: An Anthological Essay | 179 | | 11 | Texture and Authority: Telugu Riddles and Enigmas | 191 | | 12 | Enigmas of Sexual Masquerade in Hindu Myths and Tales | 208 | | 13 | Riddle and Enigma in Chinese Civilization | 227 | | 14 | Riddles in The Dream of the Red Chamber | 237 | | 15 | One Voice and Many Legs: Oedipus and the Riddle of the Sphinx | 255 | | 16 | Myth as Enigma: Cultural Hermeneutics in Late Antiquity | 271 | | 17 | Squaring the Circle | 284 | | 18 | Connecting through Riddles, or The Riddle of Connecting | 294 | | Afterword | 316 | | Author Index | 321 | | Subject Index | 325 |
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