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Trickster Makes This World: How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture.
Lewis Hyde
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Description for Trickster Makes This World: How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture.
Paperback. This book from the author of The Gift is about imagination and philosophy and was described by Margaret Atwood as a 'masterpiece' Series: Canons. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 315.
Trickster disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. Playful, mischievous, subversive, amoral, tricksters are a great bother to have around, but they are also indispensable heroes of culture. Trickster Makes This World revisits the stories of Coyote, Eshu and Hermes and holds them up against the life and work of more recent creators: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Maxine Hong Kingston and others. Authoritative in its scholarship, supple and dynamic in its style, Trickster Makes This World encourages you to think and see afresh.
Trickster disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. Playful, mischievous, subversive, amoral, tricksters are a great bother to have around, but they are also indispensable heroes of culture. Trickster Makes This World revisits the stories of Coyote, Eshu and Hermes and holds them up against the life and work of more recent creators: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Maxine Hong Kingston and others. Authoritative in its scholarship, supple and dynamic in its style, Trickster Makes This World encourages you to think and see afresh.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Canons
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786890504
SKU
V9781786890504
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About Lewis Hyde
Lewis Hyde was born in Boston and studied at the Universities of Minnesota and Iowa. In addition to Trickster Makes This World, he is the author of The Gift, a defence of the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-orientated society. 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 Trickster Makes This World: How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture.
This book is a revelation
The Times
A modern classic . . . which celebrates the power of disruptive imagination
Guardian
A glorious grab-bag stuffed with necessary loot, a joyful plum pudding rich in treasures
Margaret Atwood
Los Angeles Times
His big ideas are seriously good ones
Guardian
An act of pure pleasure from first to last
Michael Chabon Hyde is one of our true superstars of non-fiction . . . Both brilliant (intellectually, literarily) and wise (psychologically, spiritually, you-name-itally)
David Foster Wallace Lewis Hyde's second masterpiece
Margaret Atwood A masterpiece . . . The thrilling thing about reading non-fiction such as Hyde's is not just that it gives you new thoughts: it also changes the way you think
Scotland on Sunday
Brilliant...By the time he is done he has folded language, culture, and the very habit of being human into his ken
The New Yorker
Hyde is far more than an astute cultural critic; he's an original and important thinker. Pass it on
Geoff Dyer
The Times
A modern classic . . . which celebrates the power of disruptive imagination
Guardian
A glorious grab-bag stuffed with necessary loot, a joyful plum pudding rich in treasures
Margaret Atwood
Los Angeles Times
His big ideas are seriously good ones
Guardian
An act of pure pleasure from first to last
Michael Chabon Hyde is one of our true superstars of non-fiction . . . Both brilliant (intellectually, literarily) and wise (psychologically, spiritually, you-name-itally)
David Foster Wallace Lewis Hyde's second masterpiece
Margaret Atwood A masterpiece . . . The thrilling thing about reading non-fiction such as Hyde's is not just that it gives you new thoughts: it also changes the way you think
Scotland on Sunday
Brilliant...By the time he is done he has folded language, culture, and the very habit of being human into his ken
The New Yorker
Hyde is far more than an astute cultural critic; he's an original and important thinker. Pass it on
Geoff Dyer