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Untying the Knot - On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes (Hardcover, New)
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Untying the Knot - On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes (Hardcover, New)
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Untying the Knot collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on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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