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Untying the knot : on riddles and other enigmatic modes

Author: Galit Hasan-Rokem; David Dean Shulman
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Galit Hasan-Rokem; David Dean Shulman
ISBN: 0195101863 9780195101867 0195108566 9780195108569
OCLC Number: 32970775
Description: x, 329 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction / Galit Hasan-Rokem and David Shulman --
2. Riddles and Their Use / Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhoj --
3. Traps of Trans-formation: Theoretical Covergences between Riddle and Ritual / Don Handelman --
4. "I'll Give You Three Guesses": The Dynamics of Genre in the Riddle Tale / Richard Bauman --
5. Toward a Theory of the Literary Riddle / Dan Pagis --
6. "Spinning Threads of Sand": Riddles as Images of Loss in the Midrash on Lamentations / Galit Hasan-Rokem --
7. A King, a Queen, and the Riddle Between: Riddles and Interpretation in a Late Midrashic Text / Dina Stein --
8. The Yaksa's Questions / David Shulman --
9. When Is a Riddle Not a Riddle? Some Comments on Riddling and Related Poetic Devices in Classical Sanskrit / Richard Salomon --
10. Why an Allama Poem Is Not a Riddle: An Anthological Essay / A. K. Ramanujan --
11. Texture and Authority: Telugu Riddles and Enigmas / Velcheru Narayana Rao --
12. Enigmas of Sexual Masquerade in Hindu Myths and Tales / Wendy Doniger --
13. Riddle and Enigma in Chinese Civilization / Andrew H. Plaks --
14. Riddles in The Dream of the Red Chamber / Irene Eber --
15. One Voice and Many Legs: Oedipus and the Riddle of the Sphinx / Freddie Rokem --
16. Myth as Enigma: Cultural Hermeneutics in Late Antiquity / Guy G. Stroumsa --
17. Squaring the Circle / Ilan Amit --
18. Connecting through Riddles, or The Riddle of Connecting / Shlomith Cohen --
Afterword / Galit Hasan-Rokem and David Shulman.
Responsibility: edited by Galit Hasan-Rokem and David Shulman.
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