Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art

BookTrickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Copyright HolderLewis Hyde
Distributed by/Director of DistributionDouglas & McIntyre Ltd.
Designed byAbby Kagan, Eleen Cheung
FormatHardback
LanguageEnglish
LocationNew York
Copyright1998
Printed1998
Pages / Font417 pages
ISBN 100-374-27928-4
Library of Congress Classification NumberGR524.H93 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification Number398.2—dc21
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number97-18032
Barcode9780374279288
EAN 552600
ChaptersList of Illustrations Introduction Part One: Trap of Nature 1: Slipping the Trap of Appetite 2: "That's My Way, Coyote, Not Your Way" 3: The First Lie Interlude The Land of the Dead Part Two: Two-Road Chance 4: An Attack of Accidents 5: The God of the Crossroads 6: The Lucky Find Part Three: Dirt Work 7: Speechless Shame and Shameless Speech 8: Matter Out of Place Part Four: Trap of Culture 9: Hermes Slips the Trap 10: Frederick Douglass and Eshu's Hat 11: Trickster Arts and Works of Artus Conclusion 12: Prophecy Envoi Appendix I. The Homeric Hymns to Hermes Appendix II. Trickster and Gender Appendix III. Monkey and t he Peaches of Immortality Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Art credits Index
NotesDust jacket Printed in the United States of America First edition, 1998 Second printing, 1998
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