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Trickster makes this world : mischief, myth, and art / Lewis Hyde.
An exploration of the playful and disruptive side of the human imagination as embodied in trickster mythology examines the stories of Coyote, Eshu, Hermes, and other trickster figures, comparing them with the life and work of modern creators such as Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frederick Douglass, and others.
Record details
- ISBN: 0374532559
- ISBN: 9780374532550
- Physical Description: x, 417 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition: Pbk ed.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010, ©1998.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Originally published in hardcover in 1998. Reprinted in paperback in 2010 with a new foreword by Michael Chabon.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-400) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Trap of Nature. Slipping the trap of appetite -- "That's my way, coyote, not your way" -- The first lie. -- Interlude. The land of the dead. -- Two-Road Chance. An attack of accidents -- The God of the crossroads -- The lucky find. -- Dirt Work. Speechless shame and shameless speech -- Matter out of place. -- Trap of Culture. Hermes slips the trap -- Frederick Douglass and Eshu's hat -- Trickster arts and works of Artus -- Prophecy -- Envoi -- The Homeric hymn to Hermes -- Trickster and gender -- Monkey and the peaches of immortality.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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