Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and ArtIn Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits 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 lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World—authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style—has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism. |
Contents
THATS MY WAY COYOTE NOT YOUR WAY | |
THE FIRST | |
THE LAND OF THE DEAD | |
AN ATTACK OF ACCIDENTS | |
THE GOD OF THE CROSSROADS | |
THE LUCKY FIND | |
FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND ESHUS | |
TRICKSTER ARTS AND WORKS OF ARTUS | |
PROPHECY | |
ALSO BY LEWIS HYDE | |
NOTES | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |
ART CREDITS | |
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accident Allen Ginsberg American animal Apollo appetite Argus articulated artist artus-work Baldr become belly body boundary Cage called cattle chance child contingency cosmos Coyote creation cunning Demeter dirt divination Duchamp earth Eshu eternal example father fish Frederick Douglass friends gift Ginsberg gods Greek Greek Mythology happened heaven Hesiod Homeric Hymn human hunger hungry Hymn to Hermes imagine immortals invents joints Journey Jung kind Kingston Kostelanetz Krishna language Legba live Loki lucky find lyre Maia Mawu means meat mind Monkey Monod mother myth mythology Nagy Narrative Native American never Norse Odysseus Ogundipe once Picasso play Prometheus prophecy prophetic Radin Raven reveal ritual sacrifice sense shaman shame shameless silence slave speak speech spirit steal story Syrdon tale Taoist tell theft theogony thief things trap trick trickster Tripitaka truth turn woman Yoruba Zeus