Trick or Treat?

Class notes 29 Aug

Deconstructing Tricksters - mischief, myth, art

The Trickster arrives outside the home.
The Trickster and memory interact through the storyteller
Public hoaxes: War of the Worlds - Orson Welles
More trixters: Picasso, Allen Ginsberg (?), St. Peter
Tricksters threaten universals/generalizations - puts play in to play
Trickster stories are those told in the dark
Hermeneutics: guide to interpretation - that which exposes the higher, deeper, darker, mysterious truths
Hermes - psychopompous - soul guide
Prometheus - trick brings life/knowledge to mankind
Dionysus - one who disassembles - enthusiasm= en-theos - possessed by the god, always "infuriatingly" carnal
sparagmos - the tearing/rending of flesh
Hyde - pg 63 - to lie is to steal

posted by Charity @ 6:07 PM