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Trickster Makes This World

2010-08-17 Social Science
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Release : 2010-08-17
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 837/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Trickster Makes This World by : Lewis Hyde

Download or read book Trickster Makes This World written by Lewis Hyde. This book was released on 2010-08-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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. This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Chabon.

The Trickster

2015-06-18 Fiction
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Release : 2015-06-18
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 731/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Trickster by : Muriel Gray

Download or read book The Trickster written by Muriel Gray. This book was released on 2015-06-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is a shape-shifter. He is as old as time. He kills without mercy.

Son of a Trickster

2017-02-07 Fiction
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Release : 2017-02-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 805/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Son of a Trickster by : Eden Robinson

Download or read book Son of a Trickster written by Eden Robinson. This book was released on 2017-02-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize: With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the author of the classic Monkey Beach and winner of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Fellowship, blends humour with heartbreak in this compelling coming-of-age novel. Everyday teen existence meets indigenous beliefs, crazy family dynamics, and cannibalistic river otters . . . The exciting first novel in her trickster trilogy. Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer (he calls her Baby)--and now she's dead. Jared can't count on his mom to stay sober and stick around to take care of him. He can't rely on his dad to pay the bills and support his new wife and step-daughter. Jared is only sixteen but feels like he is the one who must stabilize his family's life, even look out for his elderly neighbours. But he struggles to keep everything afloat...and sometimes he blacks out. And he puzzles over why his maternal grandmother has never liked him, why she says he's the son of a trickster, that he isn't human. Mind you, ravens speak to him--even when he's not stoned. You think you know Jared, but you don't.

Tilly the Trickster

2011-09-01 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2011-09-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 309/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Tilly the Trickster by : Molly Shannon

Download or read book Tilly the Trickster written by Molly Shannon. This book was released on 2011-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tilly loves to play pranks on everyone around her, but when her family decides to turn the tables Tilly needs to decide if she should change.

The Trickster and the Paranormal

2001-08-20 Social Science
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Release : 2001-08-20
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 899/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Trickster and the Paranormal by : George P. Hansen

Download or read book The Trickster and the Paranormal written by George P. Hansen. This book was released on 2001-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paranormal and supernatural events have been reported for millennia. They have fostered history’s most important cultural transformations (e.g., via the miracles of Moses, Jesus, Mohammed). Paranormal phenomena are frequently portrayed in the world’s greatest art and literature, as well as in popular TV shows and movies. Most adults in the U.S. believe in them. Yet they have a marginal place in modern culture. No university departments are devoted to studying psychic phenomena. In fact, a panoply of scientists now aggressively denounces them. These facts present a deeply puzzling situation. But they become coherent after pondering the trickster figure, an archaic being found worldwide in mythology and folklore. The trickster governs paradox and the irrational, but his messages are concealed. This book draws upon theories of the trickster from anthropology, folklore, sociology, semiotics, and literary criticism. It examines psychic phenomena and UFOs and explains why they are so problematical for science.

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