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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

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Drawing on modern studies of rhetoric and the concept of the Trickster, the author examines Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Nathanael West as creators of a fictive experience centered in deceptive or problematic transactions of confidence.The model of a confidence game, suggested by the writers' own thematic preoccupations, permits an analysis of the social motivations inherent in the fiction. The author concentrates on the process by which confidence is established and the ways in which deception leads to regeneration and an altered perception of authority. His approach increases our understanding of the interrelation between the writer, his reader, and the world each envisions.Warwick Wadlington examines individual texts, as well as the pattern of each writer's total work. His book distinctively combines an enlarging archetypal frame with rhetorical analysis of the writer-reader imaginative act. Treated as different forms of a coherent mode of fictive experience, the works of these important authors illuminate each other. Professor Wadlington's method results in decisively new readings of each text and contributes to a phenomenology of reading three writers whose works represent crucial "moments" in the artist-audience negotiation of mutual faith.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Deception in literature. --- Tricksters in literature. --- Swindlers and swindling in literature. --- American fiction --- Trickster in literature --- History and criticism.

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Literature American --- Literature (General) --- infirmité --- postmodernisme amérindien --- décepteur --- haiku --- éthique de la terre --- roman de campus --- disability --- Postindian --- trickster --- land ethics --- campus novel

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Bedrieger in de literatuur --- Fourbe dans la litterature --- Trickster in literature --- Literature and anthropology --- Literature and folklore --- Tricksters in literature. --- History --- Shakespeare, William --- Criticism and interpretation --- Knowledge --- Folklore --- England --- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - Knowledge - Folklore. --- Literature and anthropology - England. --- Literature and folklore - England. --- Trickster in literature.

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Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The complaints of some Indigenous writers, the critique from Indigenous nationalist critics, and the changing of academic fashion have resulted in few new studies on the trickster. For example, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005), includes only a brief mention of the trickster, with skeptical commentary. And, in 2007, Anishinaabe scholar Niigonwedom Sinclair (a contributor to this volume) called for a moratorium on studies of the trickster irrelevant to the specific experiences and interests of Indigenous nations. One of the objectives of this anthology is, then, to encourage scholarship that is mindful of the critic?s responsibility to communities, and to focus discussions on incarnations of tricksters in their particular national contexts. The contribution of Troubling Tricksters, therefore, is twofold: to offer a timely counterbalance to this growing critical lacuna, and to propose new approaches to trickster studies, approaches that have been clearly influenced by the nationalists? call for cultural and historical specificity.

Indiens d'Amerique --- Litterature populaire indienne d'Amerique --- Tricksters dans la litterature. --- Tricksters --- Indians of North America --- Folk literature, Indian --- Tricksters in literature. --- Trickster in literature --- Indian folk literature --- Indian literature --- Trickster --- Folklore --- Magicians --- Swindlers and swindling --- Folk-lore, Indian --- Moeurs et coutumes. --- Folklore. --- Histoire et critique. --- Social life and customs. --- History and criticism. --- Customs