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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art [Hardback]

  • Formāts: Hardback, 417 pages
  • Izdošanas datums: 01-Jan-1998
  • Izdevniecība: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0374279284
  • ISBN-13: 9780374279288
Citas grāmatas par šo tēmu:
  • Formāts: Hardback, 417 pages
  • Izdošanas datums: 01-Jan-1998
  • Izdevniecība: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0374279284
  • ISBN-13: 9780374279288
Citas grāmatas par šo tēmu:
Examines the purpose of the trickster figures--mischievous, cultural deviations who also become heroes--in mythology and the role they play as part of the human imagination

Examines the purpose of the trickster figures--mischievous, cultural deviations who also become heroes--in mythology and the role they play as part of the human imagination. Tour.
List of Illustrations
Ix
Introduction 3(14)
PART ONE: TRAP OF NATURE 17(78)
1: Slipping the Trap of Appetite
17(22)
2: "That's My Way, Coyote, Not Your Way"
39(16)
3: The First Lie
55(28)
INTERLUDE The Land of the Dead
83(12)
PART TWO: TWO-ROAD CHANCE 95(58)
4: An Attack of Accidents
95(13)
5: The God of the Crossroads
108(20)
6: The Lucky Find
128(25)
PART THREE: DIRT WORK 153(50)
7: Speechless Shame and Shameless Speech
153(20)
8: Matter Out of Place
173(30)
PART FOUR: TRAP OF CULTURE 203(80)
9: Hermes Slips the Trap
203(23)
10: Frederick Douglass and Eshu's Hat
226(26)
11: Trickster Arts and Works of Artus
252(31)
CONCLUSION 283(34)
12: Prophecy
283(30)
Envoi
313(4)
Appendix I. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes 317(18)
Appendix II. Trickster and Gender 335(12)
Appendix III. Monkey and the Peaches of Immortality 347(8)
Notes 355(34)
Bibliography 389(12)
Acknowledgments 401(2)
Art credits 403(2)
Index 405