The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
Author(s): Lewis Hyde
Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
""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.
Product Information
LEWIS HYDE was born in Boston in 1945 and studied at both Minnesota and Iowa Universities. His hugely acclaimed essay, "Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking" in part sprang out of his experiences as an alcoholism counsellor but he is also a highly regarded poet in his own right whose poetry and essays have been widely published. He is a MacArthur Fellow, a former director of creative writing at Harvard and alongside The Gift he is the author of the equally acclaimed Trickster Makes this World. He currently lives in Massachusetts where he is completing a third book.
General Fields
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- : Canongate Books Ltd
- : Canongate Books Ltd
- : 31 March 2007
- : 214mm X 135mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 April 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lewis Hyde
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 306.32
- : 352
- : Philosophy; Theory of art; Cultural studies
- : Illustrations