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Carregando... Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art (1998)de Lewis Hyde
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I think I wanted a book of trickster myths without interpretation. His editorials got on my nerves, but I suspect it was my mood, not his fault. ( ) If you like reading about myths and legends or you're a anthropology lover this is a really good read. One might say the author stretches his Trickster analysis when examining actual artists, but I think it's a technique that's excellent for prompting one to really start looking at the myths and the functions they serve in both our cultures and other cultures. As you read the book you can feel the inquisitiveness of the author as well as a sense of play. He's not saying Fredrick Douglass is a trickster, but he does apply some lessons learned from looking at how people react to Tricksters and how the Trickster reacts to himself to shed some light on Douglass actions. I read most of the book straight through and took a little longer reading the appendixes and re-reading parts of the book. A good read and I"m hoping to track down more of the author's work. Masterful non-fiction writing: A brilliantly written, funny and moving book--filled with substantial scholarship and honest about its own stakes. To tell you the truth, I was moved to write this review by the two reviews below, both of which fall pretty wide of the mark. First, this is an amazingly well-written book, and that goes for both Hyde's prose style and his winding structure. His reflections of his own project do not upstage the subject matter but rather deepen and situate it in "time-haunted history." I wonder why anyone would expect or want a book about tricksters to be linear and transparent. By this I don't mean to suggest that Hyde is exactly "performing" the trickster in his writing. He announces his approach perfectly well: Saturn dreams of Mercury.
I suspect that this book will frustrate all species of lazy reader because it asks for a sustained, continuous, and thorough reading. All the chapters are rewarding individually, but they are best read sequentially. If you want to be able to look at a table of contents and pick one or two chapters by topic, find a doctoral thesis, or a utilitarian academic monograph. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Lewis Hyde's ambitious and captivating book brings to life the playful and disruptive side of the human imagination 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 defense systems. Always out to satisfy their inordinate appetites, lying, cheating, and stealing, tricksters are a great bother to have around, but paradoxically they are also indispensable culture heroes. In North America, Coyote taught the race how to dress, sing, and shoot arrows. In West Africa, Eshu discovered the art of divination so that suffering humans might know the purposes of heaven. In Greece, Hermes the Thief invented the art of sacrifice, the trick of making fire, and even language itself. Hyde revisits these old stories, then holds them up against the life and work of more recent creators: Picasso, John Cage, Maxine Hong Kingston, and others. The old myths say that the gods set out to create an ideal world--but this world, with its complexity and ambiguity, its beauty and its dirt, was Trickster's creation.--Adapted from book jacket.
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