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Trickster makes this world : mischief, myth, and art

By: Material type: TextTextNew York Farrar, Straus and Giroux c1998Edition: 1st ed., 2nd printing, 1998Description: x, 417p.; ill.; bibliog. refs.; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0374279284
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GR524 .H93 1998
Contents:
Introduction. Part 1 - Trap of nature. 1 Slipping the trap of appetite. 2 "That's my way, coyote, not your way". 3 The first lie. Interlude - Ghe land of the dead. Part 2 - Two-road change. 4 An attack of accidents. 5 The god of the crossroads. 6 The lucky find. Part 3 - Dirt work. 7 Speechless shame and shameless speech. 8 Matter out of place. Part 4 - Trap of culture. 9 Hermes slips the trap. 10 Frederick Douglass and Eshu's hat. 11 Trickster arts and works of Artus. Conclusion. 12 Prophecy. Envoi
Abstract: 'Lewis Hyde is the most subtle, thorough, and brilliant mythologist we now have. This book is gorgeous.' --Robert Bly
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Introduction. Part 1 - Trap of nature. 1 Slipping the trap of appetite. 2 "That's my way, coyote, not your way". 3 The first lie. Interlude - Ghe land of the dead. Part 2 - Two-road change. 4 An attack of accidents. 5 The god of the crossroads. 6 The lucky find. Part 3 - Dirt work. 7 Speechless shame and shameless speech. 8 Matter out of place. Part 4 - Trap of culture. 9 Hermes slips the trap. 10 Frederick Douglass and Eshu's hat. 11 Trickster arts and works of Artus. Conclusion. 12 Prophecy. Envoi

'Lewis Hyde is the most subtle, thorough, and brilliant mythologist we now have. This book is gorgeous.' --Robert Bly

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