Enigmas and Riddles in Literature

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How do enigmas and riddles work in literature? This anatomy of the riddle investigates the trope of enigma, drawing on classical and biblical to modern literary texts. It analyses riddle as large masterplot, as genre, and as witty scheme, with wide-ranging examples, many from modern poetry, and three detailed case-studies on Dante, Lewis Carroll, and Wallace Stevens. An important contribution to studies of poetic thought and metaphor, this book will appeal particularly to readers and scholars of poetry, modern American and comparative literatures, rhetoric, folk-riddles, and the history of ideas.