Enigmas and Riddles in Literature - Cook, Eleanor
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How do enigmas and riddles work in literature? This anatomy of the riddle investigates the trope of enigma, drawing on classical and biblical to modern literary texts. It analyses riddle as large masterplot, as genre, and as witty scheme, with wide-ranging examples, many from modern poetry, and three detailed case-studies on Dante, Lewis Carroll, and Wallace Stevens. An important contribution to studies of poetic thought and metaphor, this book will appeal particularly to readers and scholars of poetry, modern American and comparative literatures, rhetoric, folk-riddles, and the history of ideas.…mehr

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How do enigmas and riddles work in literature? This anatomy of the riddle investigates the trope of enigma, drawing on classical and biblical to modern literary texts. It analyses riddle as large masterplot, as genre, and as witty scheme, with wide-ranging examples, many from modern poetry, and three detailed case-studies on Dante, Lewis Carroll, and Wallace Stevens. An important contribution to studies of poetic thought and metaphor, this book will appeal particularly to readers and scholars of poetry, modern American and comparative literatures, rhetoric, folk-riddles, and the history of ideas.
Autorenporträt
Eleanor Cook is Professor Emerita, Department of English, University of Toronto. She writes mainly on poetry and poetics, especially modern, as well as on questions of allusion, the English Bible and literature, and the riddle. Her books include studies of Robert Browning and Wallace Stevens, as well as a collection of essays, Against Coercion: Games Poets Play (1998). Her essays have appeared in many books and journals, including American Literature, Daedalus, ELH, Essays in Criticism, and Philosophy and Literature. She has served as President of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, and is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Senior Killam Research Fellow (Canada Council), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.