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Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
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- Condition
- Release Year
- 1996
- ISBN
- 9780195108569
- Book Title
- Untying the Knot : on Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
- Item Length
- 6.1in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Language Arts & Disciplines, Humor
- Topic
- General, Linguistics / General, Form / Jokes & Riddles
- Item Width
- 9.1in
- Item Weight
- 16.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 344 Pages
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This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture.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 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.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195108566
ISBN-13
9780195108569
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70662
Product Key Features
Book Title
Untying the Knot : on Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Linguistics / General, Form / Jokes & Riddles
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines, Humor
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.1in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
9.1in
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Pn6367.U57 1996
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"A big plus is that these well-written essays are generally accessible to upper-level college students, as well as to graduate students and researchers."-- Choice "...the issue of existential expressivity has been wonderfully illuminated in these essays, and for that scholars and curious lay readers will be grateful."-- Magill's Literary Annual 1997 "...the intellectual "edge" of the volume and of the individual studies remains as sharp as ever. Untying the Knot is a significant contribution to the scholarship of riddles and related enigmas."-- Anthropological Linguistics, "...the issue of existential expressivity has been wonderfully illuminated in these essays, and for that scholars and curious lay readers will be grateful."--Magill's Literary Annual 1997, "...the intellectual "edge" of the volume and of the individual studiesremains as sharp as ever. Untying the Knot is a significant contribution to thescholarship of riddles and related enigmas."--Anthropological Linguistics, "A big plus is that these well-written essays are generally accessible to upper-level college students, as well as to graduate students and researchers."--Choice"...the issue of existential expressivity has been wonderfully illuminated in these essays, and for that scholars and curious lay readers will be grateful."--Magill's Literary Annual 1997"...the intellectual "edge" of the volume and of the individual studies remains as sharp as ever. Untying the Knot is a significant contribution to the scholarship of riddles and related enigmas."--Anthropological Linguistics"A big plus is that these well-written essays are generally accessible to upper-level college students, as well as to graduate students and researchers."--Choice"...the issue of existential expressivity has been wonderfully illuminated in these essays, and for that scholars and curious lay readers will be grateful."--Magill's Literary Annual 1997"...the intellectual "edge" of the volume and of the individual studies remains as sharp as ever. Untying the Knot is a significant contribution to the scholarship of riddles and related enigmas."--Anthropological Linguistics, "A big plus is that these well-written essays are generally accessible to upper-level college students, as well as to graduate students and researchers."--Choice"...the issue of existential expressivity has been wonderfully illuminated in these essays, and for that scholars and curious lay readers will be grateful."--Magill's Literary Annual 1997"...the intellectual "edge" of the volume and of the individual studies remains as sharp as ever. Untying the Knot is a significant contribution to the scholarship of riddles and related enigmas."--Anthropological Linguistics, "A big plus is that these well-written essays are generally accessible to upper-level college students, as well as to graduate students and researchers."--Choice "...the issue of existential expressivity has been wonderfully illuminated in these essays, and for that scholars and curious lay readers will be grateful."--Magill's Literary Annual 1997 "...the intellectual "edge" of the volume and of the individual studies remains as sharp as ever. Untying the Knot is a significant contribution to the scholarship of riddles and related enigmas."--Anthropological Linguistics, "...the issue of existential expressivity has been wonderfully illuminatedin these essays, and for that scholars and curious lay readers will begrateful."--Magill's Literary Annual 1997, "A big plus is that these well-written essays are generally accessible toupper-level college students, as well as to graduate students andresearchers."--Choice, "...the intellectual "edge" of the volume and of the individual studies remains as sharp as ever. Untying the Knot is a significant contribution to the scholarship of riddles and related enigmas."--Anthropological Linguistics, "A big plus is that these well-written essays are generally accessible to upper-level college students, as well as to graduate students and researchers."--Choice
Copyright Date
1996
Lccn
95-024841
Dewey Decimal
398.6
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
20
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