Trickster Makes This World Mischief, Myth and Art

Name: Trickster Makes This World Mischief, Myth and Art
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ISBN: 9780865475366

ISBN-10: 0865475369

ISBN-13: 9780865475366

Edition: 1999

Authors: Lewis Hyde

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Trickster Makes This World solidifies Lewis Hyde's reputation as, in Robert Bly's words, "the most subtle, thorough, and brilliant mythologist we now have." In it, Hyde now brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first revisits the old stories--Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others--and then holds them up against the life and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style, Trickster Makes This World ranks among the great works of modern cultural criticism.

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 2/16/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction



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


Conclusion



Prophecy


Envoi



The Homeric Hymn to Hermes



Trickster and Gender



Monkey and the Peaches of Immortality


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Art credits


Index