Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic ModesGalit Hasan-Rokem, David Dean Shulman Oxford University Press, 1996 - 329 עמודים This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture.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 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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Riddles and Their Use | 10 |
Theoretical Convergences | 37 |
Toward a Theory of the Literary Riddle | 81 |
Riddles as Images of Loss | 109 |
Riddles and Interpretation | 125 |
The Yaksas Questions | 151 |
When Is a Riddle Not a Riddle? Some Comments on Riddling | 168 |
An Anthological Essay | 179 |
Riddle and Enigma in Chinese Civilization | 227 |
Riddles in The Dream of the Red Chamber | 237 |
Oedipus and the Riddle of the Sphinx | 255 |
Cultural Hermeneutics in Late Antiquity | 271 |
Squaring the Circle | 284 |
Connecting through Riddles or The Riddle of Connecting | 294 |
Afterword | 316 |
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Telugu Riddles and Enigmas | 191 |
Enigmas of Sexual Masquerade in Hindu Myths and Tales | 208 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
A. K. Ramanujan answer asked Babylonian Talmud Bao-yu boundary Cao Xueqin Chinese concealed concept context cultural Dan Pagis demons dharma discourse discussion Eikha Rabba elements encoding enigmatic example expression Finnish riddles folktale formula function gematria genre guess Hasan-Rokem Hebrew hidden hints Honglou meng human Hymylä Ibid interactional interpretation Jack Jerusalem joke Kaivola-Bregenhøj Kālidāsa king Köngäs-Maranda Laius language linguistic literary riddles literature logical Mahābhārata meaning metaphor Midrash Midrash on Proverbs mother myths narrative Oedipus Oedipus's Pagis paradox play Plutarch poem poetic poets posed present problem Queen of Sheba question Ramanujan refers relationship revealed riddle image riddle structure riddling situation riddling tale ritual of trans-formation Sanskrit says semantic sense sequence sexual Śiva social Solomon solution solve the riddle Sophocles Sphinx story Talmud tell Telugu tion tradition transformation truth University Press verse virodhābhāsa wisdom woman word Yakṣa Yudhisthira