Trickster Makes This World

How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture.

Lewis Hyde (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2017 | Main - Canons edition
Canongate Canons (Verlag)
978-1-78689-050-4 (ISBN)

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This book from the author of The Gift is about imagination and philosophy and was described by Margaret Atwood as a 'masterpiece'

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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	Canons
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	315 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78689-050-X / 178689050X
ISBN-13	978-1-78689-050-4 / 9781786890504
Zustand	Neuware