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Trickster Lives

Culture and Myth in American Fiction

Trickster Lives( )
Author: Winston, Jay
Berkove, Lawrence I.
Bickley, R. Bruce
Baker, Houston A.
Doty, William G.
Mower, Nancy Alpert
Baringer, Sandra K.
Bercovitch, Sacvan
Jones, Gail
López, Debbie
Gutwirth, Claudia
DeGuzmán, María
Hyde, Lewis
Editor: Reesman, Jeanne Campbell
ISBN:978-0-8203-5267-1
Publication Date:Apr 2017
Publisher:University of Georgia Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $84.95
Book Description:

At once criminal and saviour, clown and creator, antagonist and mediator, the character of trickster has made frequent appearances in works by writers the world over. Trickster Lives offers thirteen new and challenging interpretations of trickster in American writing, including essays on works by African American, Native American, Pacific Rim, and Latino writers.

Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Native American
Literary Criticism / American / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.944 x 8.915 Inches
Book Weight:0.77 Pounds
Author Biography
Winston, Jay (Author)
Sacvan Bercovitch, who is a professor at Harvard University, is probably the most influential critic in American studies today. Tracing the function of rhetoric in American writing from the Puritans through the nineteenth century, Bercovitch has argued that the persuasiveness of rhetoric is in proportion to its capacity to help people act in history.

In his books, Bercovitch has revealed the power of American rhetoric as it creates a myth of America that conflates religious and political issues, transforming even the most despairing and critical energies into affirmations of the American way. Among his major arguments is the idea that the rhetoric of America's colonial sermons and histories, founding documents, such as the Declaration of Independence, and novels of the American Renaissance, all participate in the project of transforming what he calls dissensus into rituals of consensus.

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