#TRICKSTER MYTHOLOGY FULL#

And let's face it, Hyde is an academic, though this book is only theoretical when the doc rolls up his sleeves and starts getting signifiggy with it with MC Umberto Eco and DJ Jazzy Jung.

Also, I suspect some of the personal stories can come off as self-indulgent.

The pace can be a tad pokey I recommend reading a chapter at a time and then setting the tome aside for a bit.

#TRICKSTER MYTHOLOGY FULL#

It's thick, learned, full of digressions and personal asides, and the dude even translates the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (say it fast, I dare ya) out of Greek himself. And let's face it, Hyde is an academic, though this book This is the sorta book you always wish you were able to write. This is the sorta book you always wish you were able to write. Authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style, Trickster Makes This World ranks among the great works of modern cultural criticism. He first revisits the old stories-Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others-and then holds them up against the life and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. He first revisits the old stories-Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Trickster Makes This World solidifies Lewis Hyde's reputation as, in Robert Bly's words, 'the most subtle, thorough, and brilliant mythologist we now have.' In it, Hyde now brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. Trickster Makes This World solidifies Lewis Hyde's reputation as, in Robert Bly's words, 'the most subtle, thorough, and brilliant mythologist we now have.' In it, Hyde now brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology.

Trickster mythology