Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
By Lewis Hyde
Read by Michael Butler Murray
Unabridged
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2 Formats: Library CD
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2 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9798212264181
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ISBN: 9798212264204
| Runtime: | 14.52 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Social Science |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
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.
Author
Author Bio: Lewis Hyde
Lewis Hyde was born in Boston and studied at the Universities of Minnesota and Iowa. In addition to The Gift, he is the author of This Error Is the Sign of Love, a book of poems; Trickster Makes This World; and Common as Air. He has also published two volumes of translations of Vicente Aleixandre’s poetry and is the editor of On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg and The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau. A MacArthur Fellow and former director of creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde taught at Kenyon College, where he was the Richard L. Thomas Professor in Creative Writing.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Social Science |
| Runtime: | 14.52 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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