Trickster Makes This World Mischief, Myth, and Art
How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture.
Lewis Hyde
ISBN: | 9781847672247 |
Publisher: | Canongate Books Ltd |
Published: | 7 February, 2008 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
Trickster Makes This World Mischief, Myth, and Art
How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture.
Lewis Hyde
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 defence systems. Always out to satisfy their inordinate appetites, lying, cheating and stealing, trickster are a great bother to have around but paradoxically they are also indispensable heroes.In this fascinating book, Lewis Hyde explores the old myths that state that the trickster made the world as it actually is. He argues that our 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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