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This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture.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 ...

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    • Title: Untying the Knot by Galit Hasanrokem; Ādavid Shulman
    • Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic US
    • Print ISBN: 9780195108569, 0195108566
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    • Edition: 1996 1st edition
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