Literary Riddles
Literary Riddles is a genre of riddle in which enigmatic questions or descriptions are deliberately composed as crafted written texts—typically by identifiable authors within established literary traditions—rather than circulating primarily as anonymous oral folklore, and are intended to be engaged with both as puzzles and as aesthetic literary artifacts.
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Fearful Symmetry, A Study of William Blake.
Rene Wellek, Northrop Frye · Modern Language Notes · 1949 · 218 citations
Humanities, English, Literature +8
Enigmas and riddles in literature
Choice Reviews Online · 2007 · 88 citations
Humanities, History, Literature +17
Lyric Substance: On Riddles, Materialism, and Poetic Obscurity
Daniel Tiffany · Critical Inquiry · 2001 · 68 citations
The Rhetoric of the Exeter Book Riddles
Marie Nelson · Speculum · 1974 · 43 citations
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Millersville University
Millersville, United States
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1 publications
28 citations
University of Florida
Gainesville, United States
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1 publications
43 citations
George Washington University
Washington, United States
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1 publications
26 citations
Hope International University
Fullerton, United States
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1 publications
22 citations
Nebraska Christian College
Papillion, United States
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1 publications
22 citations
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Madison, United States
1 publications
10 citations
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CRO · 3 publications · 116 citations
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