Trickster Lives: Culture and Myth in American Fiction
At once criminal and savior, clown and creator, antagonist and mediator, the character of trickster has made frequent appearances in works by writers the world over. As Margaret Atwood observed, trickster gods stand where the door swings open on its hinges and the horizon expands; they operate where things are joined together and, thus, can also fall apart. A shaping force in American literature, trickster has appeared in such characters as Huckleberry Finn, Rinehart, Sula, and Nanapush. Usually a figure both culturally specific and transcendent, trickster leads the way to the unconscious, the concealed, and the seemingly unattainable.Trickst…
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Weitere Autoren: Berkove, Lawrence I. (Solist) / Reesman, Jeanne Campbell (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8203-2277-3
- EAN: 9780820322773
- Produktnummer: 1576227
- Verlag: Univ Of Georgia Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.4 cm 345 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 345
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