03135nam 2200601Ia 450 991077804190332120230322211021.00-8173-8285-2(CKB)1000000000774960(EBL)454481(OCoLC)426526501(SSID)ssj0000207684(PQKBManifestationID)11196575(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000207684(PQKBWorkID)10237819(PQKB)11028532(MdBmJHUP)muse9252(Au-PeEL)EBL454481(CaPaEBR)ebr10309854(MiAaPQ)EBC454481(EXLCZ)99100000000077496019920514e19971993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMythical trickster figures contours, contexts, and criticisms /editors, William J. Hynes, William G. DotyTuscaloosa :University of Alabama Press,1997.©19931 online resource (x, 265 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-0857-1 0-8173-0599-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-258) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments and Permissions; INTRODUCING THE FASCINATING AND PERPLEXING TRICKSTER FIGURE; HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THEORETICAL ISSUES: THE PROBLEM OF THE TRICKSTER; MAPPING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MYTHIC TRICKSTERS: A HEURISTIC GUIDE; A LIFETIME OF TROUBLE-MAKING: HERMES AS TRICKSTER; THE MYTH OF THE TRICKSTER: THE NECESSARY BREAKER OF TABOOS; THE SHAMAN AND THE TRICKSTER; THE EXCEPTION WHO PROVES THE RULES: ANANSE THE AKAN TRICKSTER; WEST AFRICAN TRICKSTERS: WEB OF PURPOSE, DANCE OF DELIGHT; A JAPANESE MYTHIC TRICKSTER FIGURE: SUSA-NO-0SAINT PETER: APOSTLE TRANSFIGURED INTO TRICKSTER THE MORAL IMAGINATION OF THE ICAGURU: SOME THOUGHTS ON TRICKSTERS, TRANSLATION AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; INHABITING THE SPACE BETWEEN DISCOURSE AND STORY IN TRICKSTER NARRATIVES; INCONCLUSIVE CONCLUSIONS: TRICKSTERS, METAPLAYERS AND REVEALERS; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; IndexMythical Trickster Figures, is the first substantial collection of essays about the trickster to appear since Radin's 1955 The Trickster. Contributions by leading scholars treat a wide range of manifestations of this mischievous character, ranging from the Coyote of the American Southwest to such African figures as Eshu-Elegba and Ananse, the Japanese Susa-no-o, the Greek Hermes, Christian adaptations of Saint Peter, and examples found in contemporary American fiction and drama.Animals, MythicalTrickstersAnimals, Mythical.Tricksters.291.2/13291.213Doty William G.1939-1510898Hynes William J1553419MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778041903321Mythical trickster figures3813964UNINA