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Trickster Makes This World: How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture.

Trickster Makes This World: How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture.


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Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of the human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He revisits the old stories - Hermes in Greece, Coyote in North America - and holds them up against more recent creators like Picasso, Duchamp and Ginsberg. It ranks among the great works of modern cultural criticism.

About the Author :
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. Editor of On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg and The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Hyde is now writing a defence of the 'cultural commons', that vast store of ideas and art we have inherited from the past. A MacArthur Fellow and former Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, Hyde is currently the Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College in Ohio.

Review :
* Hyde is one of our true superstars of non-fiction - this book not only covers its subject in more depth and comprehension than anything before (anything I've read, anyway) but it also ends up being about ...well, everything. The guy's both brilliant (intellectually, literarily) and wise (psychologically, spiritually, you-name-itally). -- David Foster Wallace * Dazzling ... rewards repeated reading. -- Michael Chabon * 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 * [Hyde] is one of those quirky, eccentric Wise Children the United States sometimes throws up-a sort of Thoreau-cum-anthropologist-cum-seer...[Trickster] should be read by anyone interested in the grand and squalid matter of all things human...A glorious grab-bag stuffed with necessary loot, a joyful plum pudding rich in treasures. -- Margaret Atwood Los Angeles Times * 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 * Intriguing ... His big ideas are seriously good ones ... Hyde's own bravuraraids on literacy, as on the world's great oral traditions, pay off here in a genuinely original way. -- David Lan Guardian * Reading Trickster Makes This World - an act of pure pleasure from first to last - forever altered, and profoundly deepened, my understanding of the relationship between storytelling and the world. -- Michael Chabon * Hyde is an armchair analyst issuing a moral commentary about individuality which is urgently needed now, when American culture is so threatened by conformity and materialism. -- Jackie Wullschlager FT * This captivating book is crammed with ... nuggets of analysis, erudition and wisdom. -- Lloyd Evans Spectator * Hyde is persuasive and is at his most interesting on contemporary tricksters. -- Colin Waters The Sunday Herald


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781847672254
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Canongate Books
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 432
  • Sub Title: How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture.
  • Width: 129 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1847672256
  • Publisher Date: 04 Sep 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Weight: 298 gr


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