Jennifer Neville

Truth Is Trickiest

The Case for Ambiguity in the Exeter Book Riddles

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Truth Is Trickiest seeks to turn the study of Old English riddles away from reductive searches for single answers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 159mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9781487552527
• ISBN-10: 1487552521
• Artikelnr.: 69231603

Autorenporträt

By Jennifer Neville

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Riddle Titles
1. Introduction: Soð bið Swicolast - "Truth Is Trickiest"
2. The Joy of Limits: The Heroic Idiom as "Code"
3. Muddying the Waters: The Heroic Idiom as Camouflage and Disguise
4. Dark Tracks through the Heroic Idiom: Aporia, Irony, and Paradox
5. Domestic Practices: Manufacturing and Implements
6. The Strange Game of Sex: Asexual Reproduction and Gratuitous Sex
7. Not Concluding but Continuing
Appendix: The Argument over Solutions
Bibliography
Index