Savely Senderovich, born in 1935 in Odessa, USSR (modern-day Ukraine); studied Russian philology at Odessa University, German philosophy at Leningrad University; in 1974 emigrated to the USA; in 1977 earned a Ph.D. in Russian literature at New York University; since 1977 Professor of Russian Literature & Medieval Studies at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; author of studies in German philosophy, Russian letters from the eleventh through the twentieth centuries (including books on Pushkin and Chekhov), Russian cultural history (including a book on St. Gorge in Russian culture and essays on the origin of Russian historiography), folklore, and literary theory. In recent years he has written over 30 papers on Vladimir Nabokov, both Russian and English, in collaboration with Yelena Shvarts.
Chapter 1 Introduction, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 2 Methodological Reflections, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 3 What is the Folk Riddle from Oral Tradition?, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 4 The Problem of Riddle's Functioning, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 5 The Folk Riddle: Genus and Species, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 6 The True Riddle, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 7 The True Riddle and Its Environs, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 8 Classification and Taxonomy, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 9 Classification According to Archer Taylor, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 10 The Post-Taylorian Perspective, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 11 The Folk Riddle as a Figure of Concealment, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 12 The Implicit Target of the Riddle, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 13 The Nexus of Morphology and Function, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 14 Modes of Teasing and the Psychology of Riddling, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 15 In the Wings of Taylor's Classification, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 16 The Eidetic Core of the Folk Riddle, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 17 The Genetic Code and the Mechanisms of Morphological Change, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 18 A Review of the Figurative Properties of the Folk Riddle, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 19 The Poetic Form of the Folk Riddle, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 20 Final Notes, Savely Senderovich
Chapter 21 Summary, Savely Senderovich
