Doubly Damned
Marina Warner: Literary riddles, 8 February 2007
Enigmas and Riddles in Literature
by Eleanor Cook.
Cambridge, 291 pp., £48, February 2006,0 521 85510 1 Show More
by Eleanor Cook.
Cambridge, 291 pp., £48, February 2006,
“... were packed with riddling conceits; schoolchildren in Nevis trap one another in double entendres; Dante intricated fearsome and solemn symbolic enigmas, while Lewis Carroll poked gnomic fun at various targets in a rather more comic spirit. Riddling is a ‘trope of obfuscation’, Cook writes: ‘Doubly damned’. Her mission is twofold: first, to ... ”