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Dictionary of Riddles

Author : Mark Bryant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000005534
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Riddles written by Mark Bryant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990 by Routledge, Dictionary of Riddles is a collection of nearly 1500 of the most cryptic and entertaining riddles from history. Drawn from sources throughout the world, the collection ranges from earthy medieval jokes about fleas, worms and vegetables to the sophisticated puzzles composed by literary figures from Schiller, Swift, Voltaire, Rousseau and Cervantes to Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll and J.R.R. Tolkien. The book traces the history of riddles from their origins in antiquity through the golden age of the Renaissance, to their decline into the nursery and the first few signs of their modern revival, and draws together all the strands of the riddling art. Dictionary of Riddles received a Special Commendation in Reference Review’s Best Specialist Reference Books of 1990 Awards.

Dictionary of Riddles

Author : Mark Bryant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000012352
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Riddles written by Mark Bryant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, Dictionary of Riddles is a collection of nearly 1500 of the most cryptic and entertaining riddles from history. Drawn from sources throughout the world, the collection ranges from earthy medieval jokes about fleas, worms and vegetables to the sophisticated puzzles composed by literary figures from Schiller, Swift, Voltaire, Rousseau and Cervantes to Edgar Allen Poe, Lewis Carroll and J.R.R. Tolkien. The book traces the history of riddles from their origins in antiquity through the golden age of the Renaissance, to their decline into the nursery and the first few signs of their modern revival, and draws together all the strands of the riddling art.

Say what I Am Called

Author : Dieter Bitterli
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802093523
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Say what I Am Called written by Dieter Bitterli and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the most enigmatic cultural artifacts that survive from the Anglo-Saxon period are the Old English riddle poems that were preserved in the tenth century Exeter Book manuscript. Clever, challenging, and notoriously obscure, the riddles have fascinated readers for centuries and provided crucial insight into the period. In Say What I Am Called, Dieter Bitterli takes a fresh look at the riddles by examining them in the context of earlier Anglo-Latin riddles. Bitterli argues that there is a vigorous common tradition between Anglo-Latin and Old English riddles and details how the contents of the Exeter Book emulate and reassess their Latin predecessors while also expanding their literary and formal conventions. The book also considers the ways in which convention and content relate to writing in a vernacular language. A rich and illuminating work that is as intriguing as the riddles themselves, Say What I Am Called is a rewarding study of some of the most interesting works from the Anglo-Saxon period.

Unriddling the Exeter Riddles

Author : Patrick J. Murphy
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271078170
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Unriddling the Exeter Riddles written by Patrick J. Murphy and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vibrant and enigmatic Exeter Riddles (ca. 960–980) are among the most compelling texts in the field of medieval studies, in part because they lack textually supplied solutions. Indeed, these ninety-five Old English riddles have become so popular that they have even been featured on posters for the London Underground and have inspired a sculpture in downtown Exeter. Modern scholars have responded enthusiastically to the challenge of solving the Riddles, but have generally examined them individually. Few have considered the collection as a whole or in a broader context. In this book, Patrick Murphy takes an innovative approach, arguing that in order to understand the Riddles more fully, we must step back from the individual puzzles and consider the group in light of the textual and oral traditions from which they emerged. He offers fresh insights into the nature of the Exeter Riddles’ complexity, their intellectual foundations, and their lively use of metaphor.

Dictionary of Language Games, Puzzles, and Amusements

Author : Harry E. Eiss
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313244677
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Language Games, Puzzles, and Amusements written by Harry E. Eiss and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1986-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout recorded history, mankind has turned to language play as a source of entertainment and intellectual stimulation. This unique new reference provides comprehensive listings and explainations, together with samples and historical information, concerning the hundreds of letter and word games, puzzles, and linguistic entertainments that enrich our cultural life. In an introductory section, the author discusses the various ways of manipulating words and letters and the relation of this pastime to literature, linguistics, education and humor. He comments on the use of word-play techniques in the teaching of language arts, noting their demonstrated benefits in stimulating creativity and motivating the unwilling student. Turning to the literary uses of language play, he talks about writers--from Shakespeare, Dickens, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein to the dadaists, Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, and various contemporary literary artists--whose linguistic devices run the gamut from riddles, acrostics, cross-word puzzles, and anagrams--are considered, along with individual and group games intended to entertain, teach skills, or challenge the imagination or intellect.

The Dictionary of Riddles

Author : John S. Crosbie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780708819524
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of Riddles written by John S. Crosbie and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hausa Stories and Riddles, with Notes on the Language Etc., and a Concise Hausa Dictionary

Author : Hermann G Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789389397130
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Hausa Stories and Riddles, with Notes on the Language Etc., and a Concise Hausa Dictionary written by Hermann G Harris and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Crosbie's Dictionary of Riddles

Author : John S. Crosbie
Publisher : New York : Harmony Books
ISBN 13 : 9780517540398
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Crosbie's Dictionary of Riddles written by John S. Crosbie and published by New York : Harmony Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Enigmas and Riddles in Literature

Author : Eleanor Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521855101
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Enigmas and Riddles in Literature written by Eleanor Cook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-16 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging and original study on how enigmas and riddles work in literature.

The Husband's Message & the Accompanying Riddles of the Exeter Book

Author : Francis Adelbert Blackburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Husband's Message & the Accompanying Riddles of the Exeter Book written by Francis Adelbert Blackburn and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

ABC School Riddles

Author : Susan Joyce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780939217540
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book ABC School Riddles written by Susan Joyce and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For beginning readers, these rhyming riddles help develop phonemic awareness, a key component in learning to read. And they're fun! Written by students from across the United States, these contest-winning riddles focus on school, with one for each letter of the alphabet. Bright, bold illustrations help with clues-but they don't always lead directly to the answer! ABC School Riddles joins three other books in the ABC Riddle series, giving teachers and parents a new way to make learning fun, both with individual children and in the classroom.

Runes and Riddles

Author : F. J. Carradine
Publisher : Royal Fireworks Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780880920742
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Runes and Riddles written by F. J. Carradine and published by Royal Fireworks Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quest. What happened to the missing King? Magic, spells, psi powers, political intrigue. Humans, elves, dwarves, and exotic blue-skin race. Discrimination, racism, sexism hatred spawned from jealousy. Compassion, love and humor too. Medieval atmosphere with futuristic architecture, time-portals and fantastic flying war ships.

More Riddles

Author : Bennett Cerf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780001713321
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book More Riddles written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 1986-03-13 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dictionary Of The Bible

Author : John L. Mckenzie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684819139
Total Pages : 982 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary Of The Bible written by John L. Mckenzie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent, single-volume Catholic dictionary of the Bible written by respected Catholic Biblical scholar John L. McKenzie S. J. and originally published in 1965. Fr. John L. McKenzie, S.J., (1910-1991) was an acclaimed Catholic Scripture scholar who wrote numerous books and was the first Catholic scholar on the Divinity School faculty. He was at one time president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America and president of the Society of Biblical Literature. His Dictionary of the Bible is the best one-volume orthodox Catholic Bible dictionary available in the English language—it’s an essential reference tool that should be on the shelf of every good Catholic library. A standard reference work, providing concise descriptions of biblical characters, terms, and places, as well as pertinent illustrations and charts, this is “one of the most up-to-date and reliable dictionaries of the Bible in any language.…Magnificent in scholarship, ample in learning, frank and unhesitating in facing all the difficulties and problems, sympathetic with the varieties and diversities of other views” (Religious Education).

The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media

Author : Tom Thatcher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567678377
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media written by Tom Thatcher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media is a convenient and authoritative reference tool, introducing specific terms and concepts helpful to the study of the Bible and related literature in ancient communications culture. Since the early 1980s, biblical scholars have begun to explore the potentials of interdisciplinary theories of oral tradition, oral performance, personal and collective memory, ancient literacy and scribality, visual culture and ritual. Over time these theories have been combined with considerations of critical and exegetical problems in the study of the Bible, the history of Israel, Christian origins, and rabbinics. The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media responds to the rapid growth of the field by providing a source of reference that offers clear definitions, and in-depth discussions of relevant terms and concepts, and the relationships between them. The volume begins with an overview of 'ancient media studies' and a brief history of research to orient the reader to the field and the broader research context of the book, with individual entries on terms and topics commonly encountered in studies of the Bible in ancient media culture. Each entry defines the term/ concept under consideration, then offers more sustained discussion of the topic, paying particular attention to its relevance for the study of the Bible and related literature

English Riddles in Oral Tradition

Author : Archer Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781888215700
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book English Riddles in Oral Tradition written by Archer Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of Archer Taylor's collection of riddles from oral tradition in the British Isles and in the English-speaking part of the Western Hemisphere originally published in 1951.

Einstein's Riddle

Author : Jeremy Stangroom
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
ISBN 13 : 9781596916654
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Einstein's Riddle written by Jeremy Stangroom and published by Bloomsbury USA. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique compilation of logical teasers and lateral-thinking problems designed to stretch your brainpower and strengthen your mind. Riddles, paradoxes, and conundrums have been confusing and confounding people since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks. The eponymous riddle, according to legend, was devised by Albert Einstein as a child. He claimed that only about 2% of the population would be able to work out the correct answer. There are no tricks and there is only one answer. It requires the cool application of logic to solve. And a lot of patience. Einstein's Riddle features fifty of the toughest logic problems, lateral thinking puzzles, and tests of mental agility. By turns entertaining and infuriating, the puzzles challenge our preconceptions, tell us about how we reason, and provide a rigorous intellectual workout.