Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and ArtTrickster 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. |
Contents
Slipping the Trap of Appetite | 17 |
Thats My Way Coyote Not Your Way | 39 |
The First | 55 |
The Land of the Dead | 83 |
An Attack of Accidents | 95 |
The God of the Crossroads | 108 |
The Lucky Find | 128 |
Speechless Shame and Shameless Speech | 153 |
CONCLUSION | 265 |
Prophecy | 283 |
Envoi | 313 |
The Homeric Hymn to Hermes | 317 |
Trickster and Gender | 335 |
Monkey and the Peaches of Immortality | 347 |
Notes | 355 |
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