Riddle Of The Riddle

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;