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  1. Clowns, fools and picaros
    popular forms in theatre, fiction and film
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam

    Preliminary Material -- Introduction /David Robb -- Where The Antic Sits /Robert Cheesmond -- Modern Tragicomedy and the Fool /Faye Ran -- The Postmodern Theatre Clown /Ashley Tobias -- Nietzsche and the Praise of Masks /Rüdiger Görner -- Clowning... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Introduction /David Robb -- Where The Antic Sits /Robert Cheesmond -- Modern Tragicomedy and the Fool /Faye Ran -- The Postmodern Theatre Clown /Ashley Tobias -- Nietzsche and the Praise of Masks /Rüdiger Görner -- Clowning Around at the Limits of Representation: On Fools, Fetishes and Bruce Nauman’s Clown Torture /Maxim Leonid Weintraub -- An American Circus: the Lynch Victim as Clown /Barbara Lewis -- The Court Jester in Nigerian Drama /Kayode Gboyega Kofoworola -- “Fratello Arlecchino”: Clowns, Kings, and Bombs in Bali /Ron Jenkins -- Scaramouche: The Mask and the Millenium. /Stephen Knapper -- The Cinema of Masks: Commedia dell’Arte and Jean Renoir’s The Golden Coach /Des O’Rawe -- From Nestroy to Wenzel and Mensching: carnivalesque revolutionaries in the German and Austrian theatrical tradition /David Robb -- Karolos Koun, Karaghiozis and The Birds: Aristophanes as Popular Theatre /Marina Kotzamani -- The Clown as Social Critic: Kerouac’s Vision /Stephen Llano -- Picaresque Narratology: Lazarillo de Tormes and Edgar Hilsenrath’s Der Nazi und der Friseur /Bernhard Malkmus -- Notes on Contributors. By its very nature the clown, as represented in art, is an interdisciplinary phenomenon. In whichever artform it appears – fiction, drama, film, photography or fine art – it carries the symbolic association of its usage in popular culture, be it ritual festivities, street theatre or circus. The clown, like its extended family of fools, jesters, picaros and tricksters, has a variety of functions all focussed around its status and image of being “other.” Frequently a marginalized figure, it provides the foil for the shortcomings of dominant discourse or the absurdities of human behaviour. Clowns, Fools and Picaros represents the latest research on the clown, bringing together for the first time studies from four continents: Europe, America, Africa and Asia. It attempts to ascertain commonalities, overlaps and differences between artistic expressions of the “clownesque” from these various continents and genres, and above all, to examine the role of the clown in our cultures today. This volume is of interest for scholars of political and comic drama, film and visual art as well as scholars of comparative literature and anthropology

     
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    ISBN: 9789401205399
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    Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 43
    Subjects: Clowns in literature; Fools and jesters in literature; Tricksters in literature; Clowns; Theater; Postmodernism (Literature); Clowns; Clowns in literature; Fools and jesters in literature; Postmodernism (Literature); Theater; Tricksters in literature; Conference papers and proceedings; History
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    Based on papers from a conference held at the Queen's University of Belfast in September 4-6, 2003

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  2. <<The>> Irish trickster
    Author: Harrison, Alan
    Published: 1989
    Publisher:  Acad. Pr., Sheffield

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    ISBN: 1850751269
    Series: <<The>> Folklore Society mistletoe series ; 20
    Subjects: Array; Civilization, Celtic, in literature; Array; Tricksters in literature; Array
    Scope: 126 S., Ill.
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    Literaturverz. S. 119 - 121
  3. The trickster-function in the theatre of García Lorca
    Author: Wright, Sarah
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Tamesis, London [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 1855660741
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    Series: Array ; 185
    Subjects: Tricksters in literature
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    Scope: 149 S
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [129] - 144) and index
  4. The trickster comes west
    Pan-African influence in early Black diasporan narratives
    Author: M'Baye, Babacar
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss.

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    ISBN: 1604732334; 9781604732337
    Subjects: Caribbean literature (English); American literature; Blacks; Pan-Africanism in literature; Slave narratives; Tricksters in literature; African diaspora in literature; Slavery in literature
    Scope: X, 247 S, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-240) and index

    African and Puritan dimensions of Phillis Wheatley's poems and letters -- Pan-Africanism in Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's liberation discourse -- Pan-Africanism in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative -- Africanism and Methodism in the works of Elizabeth Hart Thwaites and Anne Hart Gilbert -- African and Caribbean patterns in Mary Prince's resistance.
  5. The Confidence Game in American Literature
    Author: Wadlington, Warwick
    Published: [2015]; ©2015
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J

    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... more

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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 paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback 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

     
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    ISBN: 9781400871643
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    Subjects: American fiction; Tricksters in literature; Deception in literature; Swindlers and swindling in literature; American fiction; American fiction.
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    FrontmatterContentsPreface1. Akin to GenesisIntroduction2. Picaresque and Picturesque: Omoo, Typee, Mardi3· Godly Gamesomeness: Self taste in Moby-Dick4. Passion in Its Profoundest: Mardi Once More; Pierre and "Bartleby"; "Benito Cereno"5. Hidden Suns and Phenomenal Men: The Confidence- Man, Billy BuddIntroduction6. Idolatry Mad and Gentle: The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It7· River Courtship: "Old Times on The Mississippi"8. But I Never Said Nothing: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn9. Trick or TrashCodaSelected BibliographyIndexBackmatter.
  6. Trickster and hero
    two characters in the oral and written traditions of the world
    Author: Scheub, Harold
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  The Univ. of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis.

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    ISBN: 9780299290740
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Subjects: Tricksters; Tricksters in literature; Heroes; Heroes in literature; Trickster <Motiv>; Held <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 223 S.
  7. The trickster figure in American literature
    Author: Morgan, Winifred
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 9781137344717
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: American literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Tricksters in literature; Self-knowledge in literature
    Scope: 256 S.
  8. Charms of the Cynical Reason
    Tricksters in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture
    Author: Lipovetsky, Mark
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Academic Studies Press, Boston, MA ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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    ISBN: 9781618111357
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century Ser.
    Subjects: Pop-Kultur; Trickster; Russian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Tricksters in literature; Tricksters in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Soviet Union -- History; Motion pictures -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 20th century; Literature and society -- Soviet Union -- History; Literature and society -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 20th century
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (300 pages)
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  9. The trickster comes west
    Pan-African influence in early Black diasporan narratives
    Author: M'Baye, Babacar
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, [Miss.] ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. This book explores relationships among African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-British narratives... more

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    In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. This book explores relationships among African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-British narratives of slavery and of New World and British oppression and what African influences brought to these diasporic expressions. The book relocates the beginnings of Pan-Africanism and suggests the strong influence of its theories of communal resistance, racial solidarity, and economic development on pioneering black narratives.

     
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    ISBN: 9781604733525
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    Subjects: Schwarze; Literatur; Betrüger <Motiv>; Caribbean literature (English); American literature; Blacks; Pan-Africanism in literature; Slave narratives; Tricksters in literature; African diaspora in literature; Slavery in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 247 p.)
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  10. Trickster theatre
    the poetics of freedom in urban Africa
    Author: Shipley, Jesse Weaver
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Indiana University Press, Bloomington

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    ISBN: 9780253016591; 0253016592
    Series: African expressive cultures
    African expressive cultures
    Subjects: Theater; Trickster <Motiv>; Tricksters in literature; Theater and society; Theater
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  11. Fast talk & flush times
    the confidence man as a literary convention
    Author: Lenz, William E.
    Published: 1985
    Publisher:  Univ. of Missouri Pr., Columbia

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  12. Foxes and lions
    Machiavelli's confidence man
    Author: Rebhorn, Wayne A.
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca u.a.

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    ISBN: 0801420954
    RVK Categories: IU 4605 ; MC 4153
    Subjects: European literature; Tricksters in literature; Betrüger <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Machiavelli, Niccolò <1469-1527>; Machiavelli, Niccolò <1469-1527>; Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469-1527)
    Scope: XIII, 267 S.
  13. La dupe elisabéthaine ou L'homme trompé
    Author: Gallenca, Christiane
    Published: 1982
    Publisher:  Didier, [Paris]

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  14. The trickster-function in the theatre of García Lorca
    Author: Wright, Sarah
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Tamesis, London [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 1855660741
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    Series: Array ; 185
    Subjects: Tricksters in literature
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    Scope: 149 S
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [129] - 144) and index
  15. Omero anti-Omero
    le incredibili storie di un trickster giullare alla corte micenea
    Author: Maiullari, Franco
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Ed. dell'Ateneo, Roma

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    ISBN: 888476016X; 8884760151
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    Series: Filologia e critica ; 91
    Subjects: Tricksters in literature
    Other subjects: Homer
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    Homerus (ca. 8th-7th cent. B.C.)
  16. Omero anti-Omero
    le incredibili storie di un trickster giullare alla corte micenea
    Author: Maiullari, Franco
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Edizioni dell'Ateneo, Roma

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    ISBN: 8884760151
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    Series: Filologia e critica ; 91
    Subjects: Tricksters in literature
    Other subjects: Homer
    Scope: 269 S., Ill., 23 cm
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    Paperback ed. also avail. (see our card no. 03902536, ISBN 88-8476-016-X), Euro 56,00. - Bound. - Homerus (ca. 8th-7th cent. B.C.). - Cont. bibl., bibl. refs., notes and indices. - Half title: Centro internazionale di studi sulla cultura greca antica
  17. Kipling the trickster
    knowingness, practical jokes and the use of superior knowledge in Kipling's short stories
    Author: Coates, John
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Oxford

    "This book is an exploration of the way in which the characters in Kipling's short stories use superior knowledge, which often involves deception and the playing of practical jokes. It sets Kipling's use of the practical joke in the wider social... more

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    "This book is an exploration of the way in which the characters in Kipling's short stories use superior knowledge, which often involves deception and the playing of practical jokes. It sets Kipling's use of the practical joke in the wider social context of his time. The book engages with a long-standing critical tradition which treats the jokes as acts of vicarious revenge or symptoms of supposed defects in Kipling's personality. There was early critical hostility to the stance adopted by Kipling's characters, that of a superior knowledge acquired by friendship with a small male circle. In this book Kipling's writing is examined for what it reveals about a complex, self-conscious but powerful range of values rather than what it is supposed to disguise or conceal. Although he endorsed British colonial rule, Kipling was frank about the slackness, the endemic rule-breaking and the second-rate nature of British India. He also criticised some of the widespread cultural, religious and moral phenomena of his time, which he thought harmful. Many of his short stories contain an implied but serious criticism of Victorian beliefs, from attitudes to death-beds and schoolboys to Positivism"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781800793415
    RVK Categories: HL 3425
    Subjects: Practical jokes in literature; Tricksters in literature; Knowledge, Sociology of, in literature; Literature and society; Literary criticism
    Other subjects: Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
    Scope: viii, 281 Seiten
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  18. Writing tricksters
    mythic gambols in American ethnic literature
    Author: Smith, Jeanne Rosier
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.]

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  19. Shakespearean subversions
    the trickster and the play-text
    Author: Hillman, Richard
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Routledge, London u.a.

    This book traces manifestations of trickery and subversion across the Shakespearean canon in such a way as to bring together several diverse strands of critical thought. By isolating a principle of subversiveness that cuts across the standard... more

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    This book traces manifestations of trickery and subversion across the Shakespearean canon in such a way as to bring together several diverse strands of critical thought. By isolating a principle of subversiveness that cuts across the standard categories, Richard Hillman shows a relation amongst otherwise disparate aspects of the plays and delineates broad patterns of development. In Shakespearean Subversions discussion of such obviously subversive character-types as the Clown, the Fool and the Machiavellian villain is incorporated into a broader concern with disruptive energy, not as a thematic motif, but as a generative influence on textual production. Hillman suggests that this influence may be exercised, paradoxically, through the counter-claims of social order. The book situates this central idea in relation to a number of theoretical positions, including New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, and Bakhtin's concept of the carnivalesque. The primary conceptual anchor is supplied by recent anthropological interpretations of the folklore figure known as the Trickster. The subsequent plan of the book is wide-ranging: there is discussion of almost every play, with some unusual associations across boundaries of genre and a number of radically unconventional specific interpretations. Shakespearean Subversions will appeal to specialists and to any reader with a serious interest in Shakespearean drama.

     
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  20. Tricksterism in turn-of-the-century American literature
    a multicultural perspective
    Published: 1994
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  21. Tricksters & estates
    on the ideology of restoration comedy
    Author: Canfield, John Douglas
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky

    If the Renaissance was the Golden Age of English comedy, the Restoration was the Silver. These comedies are full of tricksters attempting to gain estates, the emblem and the reality of power in late feudal England. The tricksters appear in a number... more

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    If the Renaissance was the Golden Age of English comedy, the Restoration was the Silver. These comedies are full of tricksters attempting to gain estates, the emblem and the reality of power in late feudal England. The tricksters appear in a number of guises, such as heroines landing their men, younger brothers seeking estates, or Cavaliers threatened with dispossession. Now one of the leading scholars of Restoration drama offers a cultural history of the period's comedy that puts the plays in perspective and reveals the ideological function they performed in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century To explain this function, J. Douglas Canfield groups the plays into three categories: social comedy, which underwrites Stuart ideology; subversive comedy, which undercuts it; and comical satire, which challenges it as fundamentally immoral or amoral. Through play-by-play analysis, he demonstrates how most of the comedies support the ideology of the Stuart monarchs and the aristocracy, upholding what they regarded as their natural right to rule because of an innate superiority over all other classes. A significant minority of comedies, however, reveal cracks in class solidarity, portray witty heroines who inhabit the margins of society, or give voice to folk tricksters who embody a democratic force nearly capable of overwhelming class hierarchy. A smaller yet but still significant minority end in no resolution, no restoration but, at their most radical, playfully portray Stuart ideology as empty rhetoric

     
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  22. Folk poetics
    a sociosemiotic study of Yoruba trickster tales
    Author: Sekoni, Ropo
    Published: 1994
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0313280037
    RVK Categories: EP 20267
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; 162
    Subjects: Sémiotique et littérature populaire - Nigeria; Tricksters - Nigeria - Histoire et critique; Yoruba (peuple d'Afrique) - Folklore; Semiotics and folk literature; Tricksters in literature; Tricksters; Yoruba (African people); Schelm; Volkserzählung; Mündliche Literatur; Yoruba
    Scope: XI, 141 S.
  23. The narrative secret of Flannery O'Connor
    the trickster as interpreter
    Author: Johansen, Ruthann Knechel
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Univ. of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa [u.a.]

    The Narrative Secret of Flannery O'Connor provides new insights into the full corpus of O'Connors fiction by exploring the intersection of O'Connor's artistic intentions and her religions preoccupations. Johansen looks first at how the stories create... more

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    The Narrative Secret of Flannery O'Connor provides new insights into the full corpus of O'Connors fiction by exploring the intersection of O'Connor's artistic intentions and her religions preoccupations. Johansen looks first at how the stories create meaning in order to explain what they mean. Drawing on a variety of critical methods from narratology, anthropology, mythology, and reader response criticism, this study invites us to reconsider O'Connor's complex and enigmatic texts through their structures and actions. By focusing on the interplay of O'Connor's narrative structures, the human psyche, and the institutions and traditions of our collective history - particularly ancient myths and legends - Johansen illuminates the relation between narration, the self, and spiritual transformation O'Connor's narratives employ figures, gestures, and actions that work to deceive or disorient the reader. These havoc-wreaking forces in and among the stories most resemble the archetypal trickster. Johansen demonstrates that, through such tricksteresque activity, O'Connor's narratives push the reader to acknowledge the perverse, violent, and often disorderly aspects of human and divine behavior The religious secret of O'Connor narratives - revealed in shimmering environments where narration and incarnation meet - is that both evil and good, the grotesque and the ideal, violence and peace, Satan and God, the human and the divine exist together in sacred unity. O'Connor's literary secret, through which she discloses the religious one, is to tell stories that return human beings to original mythic events. By recasting these events in contemporary fiction, with the assistance of the trickster, she performs a ritual function that is as necessary in an individualistic, technological age as it is in a communitarian, primitive one

     
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  24. The trickster-function in the theatre of García Lorca
    Author: Wright, Sarah
    Published: [2000]
    Publisher:  Tamesis, London

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 1855660741
    RVK Categories: IP 3905
    Edition: First published
    Series: Colección Támesis / A ; 185
    Subjects: Toneel; Theater; Tricksters in literature; Drama; Schelm
    Other subjects: García Lorca, Federico <1898-1936>; García Lorca, Federico (1898-1936): Así que pasen cinco años; García Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); García Lorca, Federico (1898-1936): El público
    Scope: VIII, 149 Seiten
  25. Tricky tribal discourse
    the poetry, short stories, and Fus Fixico letters of Creek writer Alex Posey
    Author: Kosmider, Alexia Maria
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Univ. of Idaho Press, Moscow, Idaho

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