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| Document Type: | Book |
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| 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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