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Trickster Makes This World

Trickster Makes This World

Mischief, Myth, and Art

by Lewis Hyde
Paperback
Publication Date: 17/08/2010

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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.

ISBN:
9780374532550
9780374532550
Category:
Hoaxes & deceptions
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
17-08-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Farrar Straus Giroux
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
203.45x151.89x19.05mm
Weight:
0.33kg
Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde was born in Boston and studied at the Universities of Minnesota and Iowa. He is the author of The Gift and Trickster Makes This World.

A MacArthur Fellow and former Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, Hyde is currently the Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College in Ohio.

During the rest of the year he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is an Associate of Harvard's Mahindra Humanities Centre.

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