29%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
Lewis Hyde
€ 17.99
€ 12.77
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
Paperback. Argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Series: The Canons. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 134 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 282. How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World. Series: Canons. 384 pages. Addresses the questions we face every day in our public and private lives. This title argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: JHMC. Dimension: 134 x 197 x 24. Weight: 326.
The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology Lewis Hyde's modern masterpiece has at its heart the simple and important idea that a 'gift' can inspire and change our lives.
The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology Lewis Hyde's modern masterpiece has at its heart the simple and important idea that a 'gift' can inspire and change our lives.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
The Canons
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857868473
SKU
V9780857868473
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Lewis Hyde
Lewis Hyde was born in Boston and studied at the Universities of Minnesota and Iowa. In addition to The Gift, he is the author of Trickster Makes this World, a portrait of the kind of disruptive imagination that all cultures need if they are to remain lively and open to change. Editor of On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg and The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Hyde's most recent book is Common as Air, a stirring defence of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present. A MacArthur Fellow and former Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, Hyde is currently the Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College in Ohio.
Reviews for The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
A masterpiece . . . THE GIFT is the best book I know of for the aspiring young, for talented but unacknowledged creators, or even for those who have achieved material success and are worried that this means they've sold out. It gets at the core of their dilemma: how to maintain yourself alive in a world of money, when the essential part of what you do cannot be bought or sold
Margaret Atwood Reminds us of our cultural gifts and our responsibilities to them . . . a manifesto of sorts . . . In a climate where we know the price of everything and the value of nothing, Lewis Hyde offers us an account of those few, essential aspects of human experience that transcend commodity, or that will do so, if you let them
Zadie Smith Helpful, beautiful and profound. It will change the way you look at everything
Independent on Sunday
Buy several copies for yourself and the rest of your friends interested in, well, anything . . . Hyde is far more than an astute cultural critic; he's an original and important thinker. Pass it on
Geoff Dyer Few books are such life-changers as THE GIFT
Jonathan Lethem Tiger balm for tired minds
Sunday Times
No one who is invested in any kind of art, in questions of what real art does and doesn't have to do with money, spirituality, ego, love, ugliness, sales, politics, morality, marketing, and whatever you call 'value', can read THE GIFT and remain unchanged
David Foster Wallace Persuasive and fascinatingly illustrated, The Gift profits immensely from the modesty and unpretentiousness of Hyde's writing and the fascinated good nature with which he expounds his propositions
Independent on Sunday
Brilliant - by the time he is done he has folded language, culture and the very habit of being human into his ken
New Yorker
This wonderful, erudite and quirky book is a way of re-establishing a link with our imaginative life
Jeanette Winterson
Margaret Atwood Reminds us of our cultural gifts and our responsibilities to them . . . a manifesto of sorts . . . In a climate where we know the price of everything and the value of nothing, Lewis Hyde offers us an account of those few, essential aspects of human experience that transcend commodity, or that will do so, if you let them
Zadie Smith Helpful, beautiful and profound. It will change the way you look at everything
Independent on Sunday
Buy several copies for yourself and the rest of your friends interested in, well, anything . . . Hyde is far more than an astute cultural critic; he's an original and important thinker. Pass it on
Geoff Dyer Few books are such life-changers as THE GIFT
Jonathan Lethem Tiger balm for tired minds
Sunday Times
No one who is invested in any kind of art, in questions of what real art does and doesn't have to do with money, spirituality, ego, love, ugliness, sales, politics, morality, marketing, and whatever you call 'value', can read THE GIFT and remain unchanged
David Foster Wallace Persuasive and fascinatingly illustrated, The Gift profits immensely from the modesty and unpretentiousness of Hyde's writing and the fascinated good nature with which he expounds his propositions
Independent on Sunday
Brilliant - by the time he is done he has folded language, culture and the very habit of being human into his ken
New Yorker
This wonderful, erudite and quirky book is a way of re-establishing a link with our imaginative life
Jeanette Winterson