Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
Aug 2010 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories—Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others—and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World—authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style—has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism.
This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Chabon.
This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Chabon.
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November 22, 2021
You will always look back while you are keeping go forward successfully ..this is the book it is keeping me go and look my back at the same time... Dont worry I can see my front though.This book is my head book!
Joseph Mendiola
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May 25, 2014
From the very first page I'd been drawn in and captivated by Lewis Hyde's style of writing. Read this book! It's really great!
About the author
Lewis Hyde is the author of The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property and Common as Air (FSG, 2010). A MacArthur Fellow and former director of creative writing at Harvard, he is currently Luce Professor of Art and Politics at Kenyon College.
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