The Trickster

Bloom's Literary Themes

By: Harold Bloom (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 February 2010

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The trickster, whether in the form of a benign practical joker or a malevolent charlatan, has been a popular literary character for centuries.

This volume examines the role of the trickster in works such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Midsummer Night's Dream, On the Road, The Wife of Bath's Tale, and many other works frequently studied by high school students.

Featuring original essays and excerpts from previously published critical analyses, this addition to the Bloom's Literary Themes series gives students valuable insight into the title's subject theme.

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Series Introduction	p. xi
Volume Introduction	p. xv
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	p. 1
The Works of Sherman Alexie: "Futuristic Hip Indian: Alexie"	p. 9
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Herman Melville): "The Confidence-Man: The Con-Man as Hero"	p. 19
Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio): "Games of Laughter"	p. 37
The Novels of William Golding: "The Prometheus Myth in the Novels of William Golding"	p. 63
Hamlet (William Shakespeare): "The Grave Diggers in 'Hamlet'"	p. 77
House Made of Dawn (N. Scott Momaday): "The Trickster Discourse of House Made of Dawn"	p. 89
"A Hunger Artist" (Franz Kafka): "Making the Incomprehensible Incomprehensible: The Trickery of Kafka's 'A Hunger Artist'"	p. 101
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare): "'This Sport Well Carried Shall Be Chronicled': Puck as Trickster in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream"	p. 109
Odyssey (Homer): "A General View of the Epic Poem, and of the Iliad and Odyssey"	p. 121
On the Road (Jack Kerouac): "Faith on the Run"	p. 137
Orlando (Virginia Woolf): "With Orlando in Wonderland"	p. 151
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Tom Stoppard): "Tom Stoppard as Trickster in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"	p. 159
Tar Baby (Toni Morrison) and Praisesong for the Widow (Paule Marshall): "The Journey as Crossing"	p. 169
The Tempest (William Shakespeare): "The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream"	p. 187
A Thousand and One Nights: "Seven Times a Trickster: The Tale of Sindbad" Inciarte	p. 209
Uncle Remus (Joel Chandler Harris): "Tricksters in Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings"	p. 219
"The Wife of Bath's Tale" (Geoffrey Chaucer): "Transforming the Trickster in Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale"	p. 229
Acknowledgments	p. 241
Index	p. 243
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