Ví dụ về trickster

• In actuality, he has little in common with the traditional suitors of romantic comedy, being associated rather with the trickster figures of earlier popular performance.

• This more emotionally charged setting creates a more intense characterisation of the blues that is musically analogous to the aggressive trickster figure.

• Thus, it is superiority in wit that allows the trickster to gain the upper hand.

• Like the double entendres of the signifying trickster character, the music of the blues encompasses several contradictory elements.

• In the blues tradition, this trickster figure is often represented as the devil.

• The trickster represents everything one would like to do but cannot.

• In so doing, the narrators mark themselves as signifying tricksters whose actions fall outside of the boundaries established by societal norms.

• It is this assumption of the trickster persona and its liminal position that allows the blues musician to signify.

• Similarly, the trickster figure appears in the early blues tradition.

• This use of the trickster, along with his associated mediatory function, signifying language, and mischievous exploits, is actuated through border crossings.

• And these devil clowns can in turn trace their ancestry to the imps and tricksters of folk performance and ritual.

• Second, the trickster figure can be perceived as the singer's alter ego, as in songs about the boll weevil and similar folk characters.

• First, the singer identifies with the trickster's character traits through pseudo-autobiographical content in song narratives, particularly in expressing socially aggressive or unacceptable exploits.

• The trickster figure is often portrayed as one who lives outside the margins of society.

• This is the realm of the trickster figure.