Trickster Makes This World How Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture.
- 6 Apr 2017
- 9781786890504
- £12.99
- 432 pp
- 129×198mm
- 6 Apr 2017
- 9781847677013
- £10.39
- 432 pp
In a few words
This book from the author of The Gift is about imagination and philosophy and was described by Margaret Atwood as a ‘masterpiece’
In a few words
This book from the author of The Gift is about imagination and philosophy and was described by Margaret Atwood as a ‘masterpiece’
This book is a revelation
A modern classic . . . which celebrates the power of disruptive imagination
This book is a revelation
A modern classic . . . which celebrates the power of disruptive imagination
More about
the book
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.
More about
the book
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.
A glorious grab-bag stuffed with necessary loot, a joyful plum pudding rich in treasures
Margaret Atwood
Los Angeles TimesHis big ideas are seriously good ones
An act of pure pleasure from first to last
Michael Chabon
Hyde is one of our true superstars of non-fiction . . . Both brilliant (intellectually, literarily) and wise (psychologically, spiritually, you-name-itally)
David Foster Wallace
A glorious grab-bag stuffed with necessary loot, a joyful plum pudding rich in treasures
Margaret Atwood
Los Angeles TimesHis big ideas are seriously good ones
An act of pure pleasure from first to last
Michael Chabon
Hyde is one of our true superstars of non-fiction . . . Both brilliant (intellectually, literarily) and wise (psychologically, spiritually, you-name-itally)
David Foster Wallace
Lewis Hyde
View profileLewis 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.
Lewis Hyde
View profileLewis 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.
