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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art Hardback - 1998

by Lewis Hyde

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Lewis Hyde's ambitious and captivating Trickster Makes This World brings to life the playful and disruptive side of the human imagination as it is embodied in the trickster mythology. Most at home on the road or at the twilight edge of town, tricksters are consummate boundary-crossers, slipping through keyholes, breaching walls, subverting defense systems. Always out to satisfy their inordinate appetites, lying, cheating, and stealing, tricksters are a great bother to have around, but paradoxically they are also indispensable culture heroes. In North America, Coyote taught the race how to dress, sing, and shoot arrows. In West Africa, Eshu discovered the art of divination so that suffering humans might know the purposes of heaven. In Greece, Hermes the Thief invented the art of sacrifice, the trick of making fire, and even language itself. Hyde revisits these old stories, then holds them up against the life and work of more recent creators: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Maxine Hong Kingston, Frederick Douglass, and others. The old myths say that the trickster made the world as it actually is. Other gods set out to create a world more perfect and ideal, but this world with its complexity and ambiguity, its beauty and its dirt, was trickster's creation, and the work is not yet finished.

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  • Title Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
  • Author Lewis Hyde
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 417
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
  • Publication date 1998-01
  • ISBN 9780374279288 / 0374279284
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.29 x 6.37 x 1.46 in (23.60 x 16.18 x 3.71 cm)
  • Category Archaeology / Anthropology
  • Library of Congress subjects Mythology, Arts
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97-18032
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.2

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First. 9" x 6"w. A fine copy -- tight and completely clean -- in an equally fine dustjacket. A fascinating examination of the trickster in Native American , West African, and Greek cultures. The author also holds the trickster stories up against the more recent life and work of modern creators like Picasso, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Marcel Duchamp, Maxine Hong Kingston..
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