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Biogeographical ‍distributions of trickster animals [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science
Human language encompasses almost endless potential for meaning, and folklore can theoretically incorporate themes beyond time and space. However, actual distributions of the themes are not always universal and their constraints remain unclear.
Shota Shibasaki, Ryosuke Nakadai, Yo Nakawake   +2 more
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Toni Morrison's "Love" and the trickster paradigm [PDF]

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2005
The aim of this article is to propose a reading of Toni Morrison's Love (2003) as a trickster novel. The trickster paradigm, characterized by ambiguity, indeterminacy and transgression, pervades Morrison's fiction and dominates her latest novel in a ...
Vega González, Susana
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Storie di trickster e di parodia in Esopo, Euforione (SH 415 ii.1) e Licofrone (Alex. 648‑719)

GAIA Revue Interdisciplinaire Sur La Grèce Ancienne, 2021
This work aims to analyze some trickster stories, which can be told both for fun and on serious or sacred occasions, but also to draw some parallels between a selection of poems by Euphorion (Thrax, Chiliades, and Araí) and Lykophron or Aesop.
Josep Antoni Clúa Serena
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The Colours Composition in The Diamond Arm by Leonid Gaidai [PDF]

Художественная культура, 2023
The main motives of the colour composition of the film The Diamond Arm are discussed in the article. The variations of the blue and the semantics of the cold range of colours associated with the world of the main character, Senya Gorbunkov, his ...
Salnikova Ekaterina V.
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The Liminality of Loki

Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2020
: This article, the 2018 winner of the AASSC Gurli Aagaard Woods Undergraduate Publication Award, compares Victor Turner’s concept of liminality with common characteristics of trickster figures to show how the Norse ...
Allison Wolf
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Trickster Traits in the Folklore Image of Mazan-Batyr [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2019
This paper focuses on one aspect of the image of Mazan-batyr, a popular hero of Kalmyk folklore. Kalmyk tales represent Mazan as a cunning hero, able to trick his opponent instead of using strength and martial skills.
Boris Yu. Sengleev
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On Unruly Text, or Text-Trickster: Leslie Marmon Silko’s "Ceremony" as Healing

Text Matters, 2019
The article discusses Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony with a focus on textual manifestations of the figure of the trickster. The theme of shape-shifting and transformation that one usually associates with tricksters is linked here with the theme of (non ...
Monika Kocot
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Framing a Trickster Character in Two Different Media and Eras: A Study on Br’er Rabbit in Uncle Remus’ Stories and Disney’s Song of the South

Humaniora, 2017
This article analyses Br’er Rabbit, a trickster character in African-American folklore. As a trickster Br’er Rabbit possesses a paradoxical nature. On the one hand, Br’er Rabbit acts as a hero but on the other hand, he constantly plays tricks on others ...
Nur Saktiningrum
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Persona and Rebellion in Trickster Narratives. Case Study: Fleabag (BBC 2016-2019)

Persona Studies, 2020
This paper brings together the concept of persona and the figure of the trickster to examine the dynamic between social norms and creative noncompliance, between the social mask and human authenticity, in moving image narratives.
Helena Bassil-Morozow
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Zāl and Simorgh as Trickster Figures: A Mythological Reinterpretation of the Shahnameh Narratives [PDF]

Literary Arts
This study examines the trickster archetype within the narrative of Zāl and Simorgh in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh. The trickster, a mythological figure characterized by ambivalence, shape-shifting, resourcefulness, and divine intervention, occupies a ...
Tohid Teymori
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