Listing 1 - 10 of 34 | << page >> |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
Tricksters are known by their deeds. Obviously not all the examples in American Tricksters are full-blown mythological tricksters like Coyote, Raven, or the Two Brothers found in Native American stories, or superhuman figures like the larger-than-life Davy Crockett of nineteenth-century tales. Newer expressions of trickiness do share some qualities with the Trickster archetype seen in myths. Rock stars who break taboos and get away with it, heroes who overcome monstrous circumstances, crafty folk who find a way to survive and thrive when the odds are against them, men making spectacles of them
Tricksters. --- Trickster in American history. --- Tricksters in motion pictures. --- Tricksters in television. --- Tricksters in fiction. --- Motion pictures --- Trickster --- Folklore --- Magicians --- Swindlers and swindling
Choose an application
The trickster character is prominent in the cultural, particularly narrative, traditions of many different peoples throughout the world. Comic and serious, stupid and clever, benevolent and evil, winner and loser, the trickster is a study in contradictions. The trickster cannot be pigeonholed, for he does not fit into any neat categories or definitions. This study, first published in 1994, aims to give the reader the opportunity to experience in some small measure the dynamic and exciting dramatic oral narrative performances of the Ewe people of West Africa.
Ewe (African people) --- Tricksters --- Oral tradition --- Tales
Choose an application
Wild/lives draws on myth, popular culture and analytical psychology to trace the machinations of 'trickster' in contemporary film and television. This archetypal energy traditionally gravitates toward liminal spaces - physical locations and shifting states of mind. By focusing on productions set in remote or isolated spaces, Terrie Waddell explores how key trickster-infused sites of transition reflect the psychological fragility of their willing and unwilling occupants. In differing ways, the selected texts - Deadwood, Grizzly Man, Lost, Solaris, The Biggest Loser, Amores Perro
Choose an application
Heroes in literature. --- Heroes --- Tricksters in literature. --- Tricksters --- Heroism --- Persons --- Antiheroes --- Apotheosis --- Courage --- Trickster in literature --- Trickster --- Folklore --- Magicians --- Swindlers and swindling --- Folklore. --- Heroes in literature --- Tricksters in literature --- 82.04 --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's
Choose an application
In Picaresque Fiction Today Luigi Gussago examines the development of the picaresque in contemporary Anglophone and Italian fiction. Far from being an extinct narrative form, confined to the pages of its original Spanish sources or their later British imitators, the tale of roguery has been revisited through the centuries from a host of disparate angles. Throughout their wanderings, picaresque antiheroes are dragged into debates on the credibility of historical facts, gender mystifications, rational thinking, or any simplistic definition of the outcast. Referring to a corpus of eight contemporary novels, the author retraces a textual legacy linking the traditional picaresque to its recent descendants, with the main purpose of identifying the way picaresque novels offer a privileged insight into our sceptical times. Cover illustration by Eugene Ivanov 'Night Airing', 2007.
Choose an application
The trickster appears in the myths and folktales of nearly every traditional society. Robert Pelton examines Ashanti, Fon, Yoruba, and Dogon trickster-figures in their social and mythical contexts and in light of contemporary thought, exploring the way the trickster links animality and ritual transformation; culture, sex, and laughter; cosmic process and personal history; divination and social change.
Tricksters --- Folklore --- Africa, West --- Religious life and customs --- Contes --- Personnages --- Personnages. --- Folklore - Africa, West --- Tricksters - Africa, West --- Africa, West - Religious life and customs
Choose an application
Thematology --- Italian literature --- Machiavelli, Niccolò --- European literature --- Tricksters in literature. --- History and criticism.
Choose an application
Thematology --- West, Nathanael --- Twain, Mark --- Melville, Herman --- American fiction --- Deception in literature. --- Swindlers and swindling in literature. --- Tricksters in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Deception in literature --- Swindlers and swindling in literature --- Tricksters in literature --- Trickster in literature --- History and criticism
Choose an application
Mythical Trickster Figures, is the first substantial collection of essays about the trickster to appear since Radin's 1955 The Trickster. Contributions by leading scholars treat a wide range of manifestations of this mischievous character, ranging from the Coyote of the American Southwest to such African figures as Eshu-Elegba and Ananse, the Japanese Susa-no-o, the Greek Hermes, Christian adaptations of Saint Peter, and examples found in contemporary American fiction and drama.
Animals, Mythical. --- Tricksters. --- Trickster --- Folklore --- Magicians --- Swindlers and swindling --- Creatures, Fabled --- Fabled creatures --- Fabulous animals --- Fabulous creatures --- Fantastic animals --- Fictitious animals --- Imaginary animals --- Legendary animals --- Mythical animals --- Zoological mythology --- Animals --- Dragons --- Mythology --- Tricksters --- Animals, Mythical
Choose an application
The impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky interprets this puzzling phenomenon through analysis of the most remarkable and fascinating literary and cinematic images of soviet and post-soviet tricksters, including such "cultural idioms" as Ostap Bender, Buratino, Vasilii Tyorkin, Shtirlitz, and others. The steadily increasing charisma of Soviet tricksters from the 1920's to the 2000's is indicative of at least two fundamental features of both the soviet and post-soviet societies. First, tricksters reflect the constant presence of irresolvable contradictions and yawning gaps within the soviet (as well as post-soviet) social universe. Secondly, these characters epitomize the realm of cynical culture thus far unrecognized in Russian studies. Soviet tricksters present survival in a cynical, contradictory and inadequate world, not as a necessity, but as a field for creativity, play, and freedom. Through an analysis of the representation of tricksters in soviet and post-soviet culture, Lipovetsky attempts to draw a virtual map of the soviet and post-soviet cynical reason: to identify its symbols, discourses, contradictions, and by these means its historical development from the 1920's to the 2000's.
Russian fiction --- Tricksters in literature. --- Tricksters in motion pictures. --- Trickster in literature --- Tricksters --- Motion pictures --- Literature and society --- History and criticism. --- History. --- History --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- Popular culture --- Popular culture. --- Tricksters. --- 1900-1999. --- Russia (Federation). --- Soviet Union. --- Sociolinguistics --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- literature --- Soviet culture
Listing 1 - 10 of 34 | << page >> |
Sort by
|