03121oam 2200673 a 450 991095692180332120240418054525.09780299290733029929073597812839761381283976137(CKB)2550000000996603(OCoLC)826684843(CaPaEBR)ebrary10649150(SSID)ssj0000820540(PQKBManifestationID)11425969(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820540(PQKBWorkID)10862109(PQKB)11653326(MdBmJHUP)muse19164(Au-PeEL)EBL3445284(CaPaEBR)ebr10649150(CaONFJC)MIL428863(MiAaPQ)EBC3445284(Perlego)4512161(EXLCZ)99255000000099660320120330d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTrickster and hero two characters in the oral and written traditions of the world /Harold Scheub1st ed.Madison University of Wisconsin Pressc20121 online resource (232 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780299290740 0299290743 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. The trickster, preparation for the hero -- pt. 2. The trickster in the hero -- pt. 3. The hero, with the trickster at the center.The trickster and the hero, found in so many of the world's oral traditions, are seemingly opposed but often united in one character. Trickster and Hero provides a comparative look at a rich array of world oral traditions, folktales, mythologies, and literatures-from The Odyssey, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Beowulf to Native American and African tales. Award-winning folklorist Harold Scheub explores the "Trickster moment, " the moment in the story when the tale, the teller, and the listener are transformed: we are both man and woman, god and human, hero and villain. Scheub delves into the importance of trickster mythologies and the shifting relationships between tricksters and heroes. He examines protagonists that figure centrally in a wide range of oral narrative traditions, showing that the true hero is always to some extent a trickster as well. The trickster and hero, Scheub contends, are at the core of storytelling, and all the possibilities of life are there: we are taken apart and rebuilt, dismembered and reborn, defeated and renewed. TrickstersCross-cultural studiesTricksters in literatureHeroesFolkloreHeroes in literatureTrickstersTricksters in literature.HeroesHeroes in literature.809/93352Scheub Harold661243MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910956921803321Trickster and hero4355261UNINA