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An Interview with Jenny L. Davis and Four Poems from “Trickster Academy”
Iperstoria, 2023 An Interview with Jenny L. Davis and Four Poems from “Trickster Academy”
Valentina Romanzi
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Tricks, trickster characters and trickster tales in Tswana folktales [PDF]
, 2012 M.A.The aim of this study is to investigate and make a critical survey of tricks, trickster characters and trickster tales in Tswana folktales. In the introductory paragraphs a brief definition of folklore is provided, and it is discovered that trickster
Serekoane, Basebi B.
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The Trickster in Contemporary Film [PDF]
, 2012 This book discusses the role of the trickster figure in contemporary film against the cultural imperatives and social issues of modernity and postmodernity, and argues that cinematic tricksters always reflect psychological, economic and social change in ...
Bassil-Morozow, Helena
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, 2011 This essay uses the rubric of “trickster” to explore the narrative character of Solomon as presented in Kings. Using both the broader literary category and the specific comparand of the Lenape (Delaware) trickster, Wehixamukes, nuances of the biblical ...
Robert D. Miller
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Linguarum UniverseThis article examines the images of trickster heroes in fairy tales from several Slavic peoples, including Russian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, and Czech fairy tales.
Алена ДАНИЙОВА +1 more
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A discourse identity of the fool-wisecracker in the carnival space of the USA and Great Britain
Когниция, коммуникация, дискурс, 2019 The paper reveals functional and communicative characteristics of a discourse identity of the fool-wisecracker as the main subject of the carnival communicative space of the USA and Great Britain. This discourse identity combines qualities of a fool as a
Valentyna Grigoryivna Pasynok +2 more
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Trickster “Tipsy Lady” in Folklore of Taxi Drivers
Научный диалог, 2022 The characteristic features of the trickster “tipsy lady”, formed in the folklore of taxi drivers, are investigated. The authors consider the modern type of rogue character, who plays the role of a tipsy taxi passenger and is a comic asocial character ...
M. A. Trostina, O. Yu. Osmukhina
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2015 The conception of a comedic hero as a trickster functions as a useful trope for evaluating the attempts teachers make as advocates in schools. The specific elements of the trope that the authors find useful are (a) comedy as a space where the absurd ...
Mary Rice, Brian Rice
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Trickster carbon: stories, science, and postcolonial interventions for climate justice
Journal of Political Ecology, 2017 This article proposes the idea of the trickster figure as a way to account for the shifting material, and cultural properties of carbon in the cultural politics of climate change. Combining scientific understandings of allotropy in chemistry – describing
Anita Girvan
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Mocking and farting: Trickster imagination and the origins of laughter [PDF]
, 2014 This essay examines the use of trickster imagination and the appropriations of trickster mythology by writers from formerly colonised countries as a rich and relevant arsenal of material for their project of cultural transformation and critique. It shows
Angi Buettner (20171781)
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