Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art -- Lewis Hyde, Paperback

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: Lewis Hyde
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 08/17/2010
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.22h x 6.58w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780374532550

About the Author

Lewis Hyde is the author of The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property and Common as Air (FSG, 2010). A MacArthur Fellow and former director of creative writing at Harvard, he is currently Luce Professor of Art and Politics at Kenyon College.