Untying the Knot - On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes

Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Poet and Essayist, Galit Hasan-Rokem is Professor of Folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. David Shulman is Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Klappentext Untying the Knot collects eighteen previous unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hason-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. Zusammenfassung This collection contains 18 essays on the riddle - a genre of discourse found in almost every human culture. The authors seek to understand the expressive power of the riddle and the cultural logic of its particular uses. They also scrutinize its logical structure and linguistic strategies.

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• Authors: Galit Hasan-Rokem, Galit (Professor of Folklore) Shulman Hasan-Rokem, Galit Shulman Hasan-Rokem
• Assisted by: Galit Hasan-Rokem (Editor), Hasan-Rokem Galit (Editor), David Shulman (Editor), David Dean Shulman (Editor), Shulman David (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1996
• EAN: 9780195108569
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510856-9
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Folklore, myths & legends, Literary studies: general, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)