Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art - Brossura

Hyde, Lewis

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ISBN 10: 0865475369 ISBN 13: 9780865475366

Casa editrice: North Point Pr, 1999

Riassunto

Trickster Makes This World solidifies Lewis Hyde's reputation as, in Robert Bly's words, "the most subtle, thorough, and brilliant mythologist we now have." In it, Hyde now brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first revisits 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 life and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style, Trickster Makes This World ranks among the great works of modern cultural criticism.

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Lewis Hyde is the author of The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property and a book of poems, This Error Is the Sign of Love. A MacArthur Fellow and former director of creative writing at Harvard, he is currently Luce Professor of Art and Politics at Kenyon College and lives with his wife in Gambier, Ohio, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Book by Hyde Lewis

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• Editore: North Point Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0865475369
• ISBN 13: 9780865475366
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432