Galit (Hrsg.) Hasan-Rokem

Untying the Knot

On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes

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This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture.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 g… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Shulman, David (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-535632-8
EAN: 9780195356328
Produktnummer: 13904051
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 24'009 KB

Über den 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