Artículos relacionados a Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes

Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes - Tapa blanda

 
9780195108569: Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes

Sinopsis

Untying the Knot collects eighteen previous unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture.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

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del 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

De la contraportada

Untying the Knot collects eighteen previous unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture.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

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.