Riddle Obscurity is a theoretical construct in riddle poetics that denotes the deliberate and systematic veiling of semantic, syntactic, or referential content in a riddle to necessitate interpretive effort while maintaining solvability within an implied cultural or linguistic framework.
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Lyric Substance: On Riddles, Materialism, and Poetic Obscurity
Daniel Tiffany · Critical Inquiry · 2001 · 68 citations
A Suggested Solution to the Riddle of Obscenity
Albert B. Gerber · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1964 · 26 citations
Social Sciences, History, Literature +11
Reading riddles: rhetorics of obscurity from Romanticism to Freud
Choice Reviews Online · 2011 · 15 citations
Humanities, Psychiatry, Psychology +14
Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia
Harold E. Raugh, Michael Asher · The Journal of Military History · 1999 · 11 citations
Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud
Gabriel Trop · Monatshefte · 2012 · 10 citations
Humanities, Psychiatry, Psychology +14
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- MAMichael Asher
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- HEHarold E. Raugh
1 publications · 11 citations
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- DTDaniel Tiffany
1 publications · 68 citations
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- The Journal of Military History
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- Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 1 publications · 15 citations
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- Monatshefte
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- Critical Inquiry
1 publications · 68 citations
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- University of Pennsylvania Law Review
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