Riddle Of The RiddleFirst Published in 2005. The true folk riddle of oral traditions that have been rapidly disappearing from the face of the earth in the last hundred years is one of the most ancient threads of culture. One of the smallest genres of verbal culture—usually under a dozen of words, it is an intensely articulated utterance. It is eccentric and as such breaks every logical mould. This volume presents results of a study driven by the sheer intellectual curiosity of the author. |
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... riddle, in this light, turns out to be much more hilarious than common wisdom would have it. Savely Senderovich, born in 1935 in Odessa, USSR (modern-day Ukraine); studied Russian philology at Odessa University, German philosophy at ...
... riddle, in this light, turns out to be much more hilarious than common wisdom would have it. Savely Senderovich, born in 1935 in Odessa, USSR (modern-day Ukraine); studied Russian philology at Odessa University, German philosophy at ...
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... riddle current in our age? Does it do justice to a phenomenon different from anything in contemporary culture? Is not the riddle a riddle in more than an obvious way? The condition of riddle studies today is paradoxical. As our access ...
... riddle current in our age? Does it do justice to a phenomenon different from anything in contemporary culture? Is not the riddle a riddle in more than an obvious way? The condition of riddle studies today is paradoxical. As our access ...
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... riddle by individual efforts under such conditions looks implausible. It seemed that the proliferation of 20th-century riddle studies, which peaked in the 1970«s, should have brought a more profound understanding of the subject. That ...
... riddle by individual efforts under such conditions looks implausible. It seemed that the proliferation of 20th-century riddle studies, which peaked in the 1970«s, should have brought a more profound understanding of the subject. That ...
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... riddle as the ambiguity of its descriptive part and of its relationship with the answer were highlighted, and the problem of the riddle«s functioning was raised in numerous studies based on fresh field material,2 but the Dominant Theory ...
... riddle as the ambiguity of its descriptive part and of its relationship with the answer were highlighted, and the problem of the riddle«s functioning was raised in numerous studies based on fresh field material,2 but the Dominant Theory ...
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... studies of the folk riddle. Having narrowed the subject of study to the folk riddle from oral tradition as distinct from other genres of enigmatics, we should face a really hard problem¦for it is not that obvious as the previous one: at ...
... studies of the folk riddle. Having narrowed the subject of study to the folk riddle from oral tradition as distinct from other genres of enigmatics, we should face a really hard problem¦for it is not that obvious as the previous one: at ...
Contents
What is the Folk Riddle from Oral Tradition? | |
Genus and Species | |
The True Riddle | |
The True Riddle and Its Environs | |
Classification and Taxonomy | |
The PostTaylorian Perspective 9 Classification According to Archer Taylor | |
The Nexus of Morphology and Function | |
Modes of Teasing and the Psychology of Riddling | |
In the Wings of Taylors Classification 16 The Eidetic Core of the Folk Riddle | |
The Genetic Code and the Mechanisms of Morphological Change | |
A Review of the Figurative Properties of the Folk Riddle | |
The Poetic Form of the Folk Riddle | |
Final Notes | |
Summary | |
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aimed ancient archaic archetypal Aristotle«s authentic folk riddle bipartite bylina classes collection compact complex conception core cultural defamiliarization defined descriptive metaphor domain don«t Edmund Leach enigmatics ethnologists explicit answer expression field figure of concealment folklore folklorists formal Freud functional structure genetic code genre Georges & Dundes grotesque guess heterogeneity Humpty Dumpty ibid implicit subject implicit target incongruity inner form innocent recorded kind king«s kinship language Lehmann-Nitsche lexical motifs linguistic literal descriptions logical Maranda meaning metaphoric object mode morphological nature notion observation offers oral tradition paradigm Petsch phenomena poetic presents proper question recorded answer riddle describes riddle from oral riddle studies riddle’s riddle«s description riddle«s functioning Rigveda ritual Russian riddle scholars semantic predilections sexual content sexual symbolism Shklovsky signifies structural definition stylistic substitution symbolic structure taboo Taylor Taylor«s classification texts theory thing true folk riddle true riddle verbal versions Wolfgang Schultz