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Author : Archer Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Literary Riddle Before 1600 written by Archer Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Archer Taylor
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Literary Riddle Before 1600 written by Archer Taylor and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1976 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleanor Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521855101
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
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.
Author : Michele De Filippis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Literary Riddle in Italy to the End of the Sixteenth Century written by Michele De Filippis and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Živilė Gimbutas
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761828457
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (284 download)
Download or read book The Riddle in the Poem written by Živilė Gimbutas and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Riddle in the Poem is a study of the ramifications of riddles and riddle elements in the context of selected twentieth-century poetry. It includes works by Francis Ponge, Wallace Stevens, Richard Wilbur, Rainer M. Rilke, and Henrikas Radauskas. This book enlarges the scope of riddles as a "root of lyric" by connecting it with the folkloristic concept of "riddling," essentially a question and answer series, and by tracing the influence of the root in poetic methodology. The Riddle in the Poem may be defined as an attempt to advance the notion, which has been discussed in previous folkloristic and literary studies, which riddle as the root of lyric manifests itself in various ways.
Author : Marcel Danesi Ph.D.
Publisher : Wellfleet Press
ISBN 13 : 1577151984
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (771 download)
Download or read book The Curious History of the Riddle written by Marcel Danesi Ph.D. and published by Wellfleet Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Curious History of the Riddle investigates the fascinating origin and history of the riddle, from the very first riddle (the Riddle of the Sphinx) to the twenty-first century, with riddles found in pop culture, including movies (Us), television shows (Game of Thrones) video games, and escape rooms. Riddles are ageless, timeless, and so common that we hardly ever reflect upon what they are and how they originated. Most importantly, their invention helped in the development of lateral thinking, the form of thinking that is the foundation of all kinds of discoveries, from mathematics to science and beyond. In The Curious History of the Riddle, puzzle expert Marcel Danesi delves deep into the riddle's origin and history and covers these fascinating topics: 1. The Riddle of the Sphinx: Origins, Legends, Patterns What creature walks on all fours at dawn, two at midday, and three at twilight? (answer: man) 2. The Greek Anthology and the Exeter Book: Medieval Views and Uses of Riddles This chapter looks at the spread of the riddle in recreational and educational contexts. 3. The Merry Book of Riddles: Riddles in the Renaissance By the late Renaissance, riddles were being tailored more and more to produce humorous or whimsical effects. 4. Enigmas, Charades, and Conundrums: Riddles from the 1600s to the Twentieth Century After the Renaissance, riddles had become virtually every literate European person’s favorite form of recreation, and were included as regular features of many newspapers and periodicals 5. The Twentieth Century: Riddles as Children’s Literature In the twentieth century, riddles became specialized for children, spreading throughout children’s literature and educational manuals. 6. The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Riddles Go to the Movies and Online In this chapter, the focus is on riddles in various entertainment media, from best-selling novels such as Harry Potter, to movies, such as the Batman series. 7. Connections: Riddles and Rebuses This chapter explores the structure of rebuses as visual riddles, connecting them historically. Part history book, part puzzle book, The Curious History of the Riddle is fully illustrated with over 200 riddles interspersed throughout the text for solving.
Author : Patrick J. Murphy
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271078170
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Unriddling the Exeter Riddles written by Patrick J. Murphy and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011-03-28 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.
Author : Douglas Gray
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191016292
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Simple Forms written by Douglas Gray and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple Forms is a study of popular or folk literature in the medieval period. Focusing both on the vast body of oral literature that lies behind the written texts which have survived from the medieval period and on the popular literature provided by literate authors for audiences of hearers or readers with varying degrees of literacy, Douglas Gray leads new readers to a productively complicated understanding of the relationship between medieval popular culture and the culture of the learned. He argues that medieval society was stratified, in what seems to us a rigid way, but that culturally it was more flexible. Literary topics, themes, and forms moved; there was much borrowing, and a constant interaction. Popular tales, motifs, and ideas passed into learned or courtly works; learned forms and attitudes made their way in into popular culture. All in all this seems to have been a fruitful symbiosis. The book's twelve chapters are principally organised genre, covering epics, ballads, popular romances, folktales, the German sage, legends, animal tales and fables, proverbs, riddles, satires, songs, and drama.
Author : Joseph Fontenrose
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520331311
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Delphic Oracle written by Joseph Fontenrose and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.
Author : Ruth Tatlow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521361910
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet written by Ruth Tatlow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-02-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1947 Friedrich Smend published a study claiming that J. S. Bach used a natural-order alphabet (A = 1 to Z = 24) in his works. He demonstrated that Bach incorporated significant words into his music, and provided himself with a symbolic compositional theme. Here, Dr Tatlow investigates the plausibility of Smend's claims with new evidence, challenging Smend's conclusions.
Author : Chester J. Fontenot
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865547278
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (472 download)
Download or read book W.E.B. Du Bois and Race written by Chester J. Fontenot and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays emerged from a symposium held at Mercer University which examined the ways in which W. E. B. Du Bois's theories of race have shaped racial discussion and public policy in the twentieth-century. The essays also examine the application of Du Bois's theories to the new millennium, as well as his contributions to the study of the humanities.
Author : Andrea Ercolani
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110428652
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Comparative Perspective written by Andrea Ercolani and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the third and concluding part of the investigation on Submerged literature in ancient Greece and beyond. The book expands the inquiry to a comparative perspective, in order to test the validity and usefulness of the hermeneutical approach in other fields and cultures. The comparative case studies deal with gnostic text, Qumran texts, the Hebrew Bible, Early Christianity, Cuneiform Texts, Arabic-Islamic literature, ancient Rome, Medieval China, and contemporary southern Italy. The volume tackles themes and questions relating to author and authorship, cultural translation and transmission, the interaction between orality and literacy, myth and folktale. A particular emphasis is given to anthropological themes and methods. In this vein, the book further explores dynamics of emergence and submersion in ancient Greece, including cultural trends promoted respectively by Sparta and Athens. The volume provides the reader with a wide range of tools and methodological suggestions to reconstruct literary phenomena and cultural processes in a given historical epoch and context, as well as offering new insights for both classical and comparative studies.
Author : Phil Cousineau
Publisher : Conari Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573247122
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (471 download)
Download or read book A World Treasury of Riddles written by Phil Cousineau and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mythologist and adventurer Phil Cousineau theorizes that riddles are proverbs turned into questions. He believes telling riddles is a lost folk art. This eclectic collection of brain twisters from Leonardo da Vinci to Lewis Carroll is designed to bring the practice back to the living room. Cousineau invites readers into the peripatetic, poetic, and sweet language of riddles
Author : Ercole del Rio
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004617698
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The War of the Chessmen / La Guerra degli Scacchi, o sia il Re de'Giuochi written by Ercole del Rio and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a hitherto unpublished manuscript owned by the Cleve land Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio (USA). Limited edition, of which only 200 copies are for sale outside the U.S.A.
Author : Andrew Welsh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691656940
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Roots of Lyric written by Andrew Welsh and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk riddles, emblems, charms, and chants are a few of the traditional forms examined by Andrew Welsh to discover the means by which poetic language achieves its powerful effects. His book shows how the roots of lyric are embodied in primitive verse forms, how they are raised to higher powers in poetry from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, and how an awareness of them can illuminate our reading of the poetry of any age. Andrew Welsh is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226158713
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Folklore and Folklife written by Richard M. Dorson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the characteristics of folk cultures and discusses the procedures used by social scientists to study folklife.
Author : Ceri Sullivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019954784X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Rhetoric of the Conscience in Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan written by Ceri Sullivan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book for over a decade to deal with the issue of conscience in metaphysical poetry, Ceri Sullivan draws on theology, poetics, and rhetoric in detailed readings of the works of Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan. She shows that these poets see the conscience as part theirs, part God's, and respond uncomfortably to failures in its workings.
