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9780195101867: Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
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ISBN 10: 0195101863 ISBN 13: 9780195101867
Editorial: OUP USA, 1997

Sinopsis

Untying the Knot collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture.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.

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Untying the Knot collects eighteen previous unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture.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.

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Editorial
OUP USA
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0195101863
ISBN 13 
9780195101867
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
344
Editor
Hasan-Rokem Galit, Shulman David
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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ISBN 10:  0195108566 ISBN 13:  9780195108569
Editorial: Oxford University Press, 1997
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