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Artistry in the Riddles of 'The Exeter Book.'
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Bridging the Gap: Finding a Valkyrie in a Riddle
While many riddles exist in the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book containing female characters, both as actual human females and personified objects and aspects of nature, few scholars have discussed how the anthropomorphized “females” of the riddles challenge and broaden more conventional portrayals of what …
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ΝΕΟΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΛΑΙΚΑ ΑΙΝΙΓΜΑΤΑ. ΜΟΡΦΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΛΥΣΗ
… THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FOLK AND LITERARY RIDDLES; THE DIVERSE NOMENCLATURE OF THE RIDDLE INTHE VARIOUS GREEK TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES; AND, FINALLY, THE QUESTION OF DEFINING THE GENRE ITSELF. IN THE FIRST CHAPTER, WHICH DEALS WITH THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF THE RIDDLE, THERE IS AN EXHAUSTIVE …
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Riddlehoard,
Riddlehoard is a collection of literary riddles inspired by the Old English Riddles of the Exeter Book. Riddlehoard describes objects that fall into three categories: objects accessible to the Anglo-Saxons, often because they pertain to the natural world; technological items largely unique to the …
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The Johannine Paroimia
… illustrations, or figures of speech. They are riddles. Features of the Johannine riddles which occur in chap. 16 were observed: short; expanded by the use of a parable; cause questions; Jesus centered; Jesus' sayings; and use of ambiguous words.</p> <p>In chapter 3 the <strong>παροιμἰα</strong> …
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Dimensions of Humor: The Production and Appreciation of Humor by Deaf Children
… in small, same-sex groups while they told jokes, riddles, or humorous stories. These humor events were then used in the development of a taxonomy for categorizing humor according to subordinate scales and features. A second group of subjects, involved in the appreciation phase, contained 12 …
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Boundaries of the Human: Identities, Ontologies and Transformations in Old Norse Literature
… the image-worlds of skaldic kennings and eddic riddles (*Heiðreks gátur*). I then extend this discussion by examining impaired and vulnerable bodies in *fornaldarsögur* that are supplemented by nonhuman matter, focusing on (more-than-)human embodiment in *Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar …
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Exploring meaning in Xhalanga Blues: a theatre of ntsomi palimpsests encouraging sustainable storytelling
… form of narrative proverbs; personal metaphors; riddles and songs; analogous explanations; personification; image-repertoire; extensive use of long speeches or monologues and survival construct. The research further explores the challenges of using these poetics as I try to make sense of my …
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User-centered product design of live-action game experiences
… games that require players to solve puzzles and riddles to complete certain objectives in order to "escape" the room have been very popular. The design of this type of game demands knowledge and expertise in user-oriented product design in a live-action game scenario that engages and challenges …
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USING HUMOR TO ENHANCE METALINGUISTIC AWARENESS AND EXPAND CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN ADULT ESL CLASSROOMS
… and humorous wordplay. Using jokes, puns, and riddles, which are all forms of humorous wordplay, to incorporate humor in the adult ESL classroom will not only create a fun and more relaxed environment, but it will also help ESL students in increasing their understanding of the English language …
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The poetics of the medium : aesthetic forms and technologies of the word in the English Middle Ages
… ae]dmon's Hymn, the Old English Exeter Book Riddles, the Middle English Corpus Christi plays, and Malory's Morte Darthur. This study reveals the way the distinctive poetics of each of these works is formed in response to its own communication technology, appropriating from it patterns of …
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Talking with ‘Things’ in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture
… on a variety of sources (from dream-visions and riddles to stone sculpture and gospelbooks) it examines the relation between inscribed voices, bodies and early medieval artifacts, looking at how nonhumans might be as active and talkative as humans are assumed to be. In arguing for the agency of …
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Understanding impact of life experiences on performance and learning behavior in an Introductory Computer Science MOOC
… was observed between regular engagement in riddles, brainteasers, or sudoku and overall grades and performance in the final exam, although no significant correlation is found between day-to-day behaviors and learning behaviors in the course.
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African and European narrative conventions in the novels of C.T. Msimang
… that is evident in their folktales, praises, riddles, songs and many other art forms of yesteryears. Emanating from such artistry of narrating, the Zulus have also joined forces with the other artists of the modem world in producing narratives of high quality and standard in the light of …
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Revising Rhetorical Theory in "My Bondage and My Freedom": Narrativizing and Theorizing a Rhetoric of Blackness
… forms, in the stories [they] create, in riddles and proverbs, in the play with language” (68). In <em>My Bondage and My Freedom</em>, I examine the ways in which Douglass locates rhetorical theory in the lived experiences of enslaved people. While doing this, he pays homage to four …
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UNtheater
… in Wonderland. To me, the characters, puns, and riddles in the book were perfect to imagine as the columns, walls, and stairs of my building. This allusion eventually morphed the building into two theaters, an above ground movie theater and a below ground performance theater. As I worked, I had …
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A Count of Days: The Life Course in Old English Poetry
… with depictions of early life in the Exeter Book Riddles; it contends that these texts have been unduly passed over in discussions of ageing in Old English, seemingly due to their (mostly) non-human subjects. The third chapter addresses the treatment of early and late adulthood in the verse holy …
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Fauna in archaic Greek and Kalanga oral wisdom literatures
… of wisdom. In songs, proverbs, aphorisms, riddles and other oral modes of communication, animals sometimes play the roles of human beings. Homeric similes, Hesiodic and Aesopic fables, and numerous oral figures of speech in Greek lyric poetry often incorporate animals in their figurative …
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"Nothing New Under the Sun": Woolf and Joyce, the New Woman and the New Man
The answer to the first of the Sphinx's riddles — "which two sisters are born, the first to the second and the second to the first?"&#x2014; is also the title of Virginia Woolf's second novel, Night and Day. The parallactic structure of the riddle is duplicated in the composition of the text …
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