Lawbreaking Jokers: Tricksters Using Outlaw Discourse

VanSlette, Sarah; Boyd, Josh

doi:10.1080/01463373.2011.614214

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“…In 'The Trickster', Lule recognizes one who is 'senseless and unreflective and [who] brings on himself and others all manners of suffering' but who is more of 'a subject of mockery, contempt, and ridicule' (p. 24) in ways that reduce the individual's personal, evil traits. That 'The Trickster' infrequently includes evidence of one's malice and of suggestions that 'he' is someone who wants to hurt someone else on purpose, with little explanation other than to do harm (Scheub, 2012;VanSlette and Boyd, 2011), the archetype represents the complexities inherent in archetypal explanation in the news. Research indicates that some 'criminals' are awarded a 'Trickster' or even 'Hero' status in the press.…”

Section: Deconstructing 'Devious' Archetypesmentioning

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Behold the monster: Mythical explanations of deviance and evil in news of the Amish school shooting

Gutsche

Salkin

2016

Journalism

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In October 2006, Charles Carl Roberts IV walked into a one-room Amish schoolhouse in West Nickel Mines, PA, USA, brandished a handgun, and killed five female students who were all under the age of 13. Through an analysis of 215 news articles published in 10 local, regional, and national newspapers in 2006 and 2007, this article examines news characterizations of Roberts that cast him as a ‘Monster’. We explore interdisciplinary notions of pure evil to expand current literature of news myth to include a form of explanation that appears in news when no other current mythical archetype will suffice. This study complicates current perspectives on news myth by expanding the ideological tools to examine the nature of evil in loss through the example of the Amish shootings.

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Section: Deconstructing 'Devious' Archetypesmentioning

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Behold the monster: Mythical explanations of deviance and evil in news of the Amish school shooting

Gutsche

Salkin

2016

Journalism

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New Vistas in Organizational Rhetoric

Meisenbach¹

2018

The Handbook of Organizational Rhetoric and Communication

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Rehepapp and Robin Hood: Tricksters or Heroes?

Rüsse¹,

Nuut²

2016

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Abstract:In reference books and specialised literature, the traditional distinction between the culture hero and the trickster remains surprisingly unequivocal: the latter mythological character is usually defined as the demonic or comical counterpart of the former. While it might be a useful if rigid description for an encyclopaedia, does it always hold true in works of fiction? The present essay attempts to demonstrate that the interaction of the two types is much more ambiguous, and this complex and contradictory relationship is traced through the juxtaposition of probably the best-known characters in Estonian and English folklore, Rehepapp and Robin Hood. Albeit to a different degree, these personages possess traits of both the trickster and the hero but play somewhat different roles in their respective societies.

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Lawbreaking Jokers: Tricksters Using Outlaw Discourse

Cited by 3 publications

References 14 publications

Behold the monster: Mythical explanations of deviance and evil in news of the Amish school shooting

Behold the monster: Mythical explanations of deviance and evil in news of the Amish school shooting

New Vistas in Organizational Rhetoric

Rehepapp and Robin Hood: Tricksters or Heroes?

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