Hyde Lewis - Trickster Makes This World Mischief Myth And Art - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Trickster Makes This World Mischief Myth And Art
Author(s): Hyde Lewis
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374532550
Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/17/2010
Category: Folklore, Myths & Legends