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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Tricksters"”.
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Artists as Tricksters: Resourceful Artists of the German Renaissance
Comic and entertaining chapbooks from late-medieval Germany, such as Till Eulenspiegel, often featured clever and cunning protagonists who practiced trickery and subverted social norms. This character of the trickster—as this dissertation reveals—was also a major identity deliberately cultivated by …
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Thugs, Thieves, Tricksters or Popular Heroes? A Comparative Look at the Phenomenon of "Ayyari"
This project examines the phenomenon of 'ayyari in various primary and secondary sources. During the medieval period, 'ayyar brotherhoods flourished in many of Iran's urban centers. Although they have attracted the attention of a wide spectrum of modern scholars, basic questions regarding their …
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TRICKSTERS OF THE SPECTATORial The decolonial proposals of performance artivism through the encounters with La Pocha Nostra and Freddie Mercado
In this research I explore artivist performance proposals that lead to an analysis of the spectator position intrinsic to the spectatorial, as a construction linked to colonial discourses of otherness. This investigation presents the encountering processes of the transnational troupe of La Pocha …
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"I Love Mischief Strangely, As Most of Our Sex Do": Aphra Behn and the Trickster Archetype
… themselves safe. Two areas where women excel as Tricksters are in persuasive or language tricks and in sexual tricks Sexual tricks can take a variety of forms, and include bed tricks, gender reversal, and creating confusion using sex or gender. This study focuses on trickster figures and …
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`I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century
… and The Other Side of Silence (1995) and The Tricksters (1986) by Margaret Mahy. All the books are by women writers and all feature unconventional, imaginative girl protagonists who foreground, in their creative interactions with their community and environment, issues of language and voice.I …
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Liminal Butlers: Discussing a Comic Stereotype and the Progression of Class Distinctions in America
… while also becoming sources of mischief as tricksters. In early American films, these characters embody the anxiety of a classless body of men who become scapegoats, trickster-figures, and mask-wearing sages in order to survive—attracting as many functions as possible in order to help …
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Women's wit on stage, 1660-1720
… through the witty exploits of female and male tricksters. I argue that wit is present in tragedy in the form of vengeful plotting and stage spectacle which deconstructs the abject through performance. I identify theatrical paratexts in comedy, tragicomedy, and tragedy as miniature forms of wit …
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Social Sensory Somatic Scores for Species, Spaces, Soils, and Structures of Steep Slopes
… from comprehension-- refugees, queers, witches, tricksters, artists, herbalists, and healers. The intended medium of SSSSSSSSSS coalesces in Ch.4: inviting the general public to participatory happenings with hills, composing scores, coaxing their inner slorgs to slither askew, sloping themselves …
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Everything (Old was New) Already: Theories, Histories, and Politics of Appropriation, Contemporary Art, and Culture
The past decade and a half of technological innovation and explosion of historical multiplicities have reignited the debates on appropriation. This dissertation contributes to the discussion for the purposes of understanding appropriation’s significance to our fluctuating conceptions of …