Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art by Lewis Hyde
This book brings to life the playful and disruptive side of imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. Authoritative scholarship yet loose-limbed in style, this book ranks among the great works of modern cultural criticism.
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art by Lewis Hyde
Format: 3rd trade paperback printing
Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, slight bumping at corners, price sticker at rear cover. Softcover.
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Publishing Info: FSG, New York
Language: English
ISBN - 13: 9780374532550
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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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