Trickster Makes This World

Mischief, Myth and Art

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Folklore & Mythology
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Author: Lewis Hyde ISBN: 9781429930833
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: August 17, 2010
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Lewis Hyde
ISBN: 9781429930833
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: August 17, 2010
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

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.

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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.

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