The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World - Softcover

Lewis Hyde

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841959936 ISBN 13: 9781841959931

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

""The Gift" actually deserves the hyperbolic praise that in most blurbs is so empty. It is the sort of book that you remember where you were and even what you were wearing when you first picked it up. The sort that you hector friends about until they read it too. This is not just formulaic blurbspeak; it is the truth. No one who is invested in any kind of art, in questions of what real art does and doesn't have to do with money, spirituality, ego, love, ugliness, sales, politics, morality, marketing, and whatever you call 'value', can read "The Gift" and remain unchanged." - David Foster Wallace.

About this title

About the Author:

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 Trickster Makes This World, a portrait of the disruptive imagination all cultures need if they are to remain lively and open to change. Editor of On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg and The Essays of Henry D Thoreau, Hyde is now writing a defence of the 'cultural commons', that vast store of ideas and art we have inherited from the past. A MacArthur Fellow and former director of creative writing at Harvard, Hyde is currently the Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College in Ohio.

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1841959936
• ISBN 13: 9781841959931
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352