A Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art - Hardcover

Hyde, Lewis

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9780374279288: A Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374279284 ISBN 13: 9780374279288

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 1998

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Examines the purpose of the trickster figures--mischievous, cultural deviations who also become heroes--in mythology and the role they play as part of the human imagination. Tour.

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"Persuasively celebrates the need for the kind of paintings, music, books and ideas that society initially finds unpleasant...[A] hymn to the gods of mischief, who are also the gods of artistic and cultural renewal."--Michael Dirda, "The Washington Post"
"Hyde is one of our true superstars of nonfiction."--"David Foster Wallace"
"Brilliant...By the time he is done he has folded language, culture, and the very habit of being human into his ken."--"The New Yorker"
"A major work of scholarship that is also a major work of art."--Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University
"["Trickster"] should be ready by anyone interested in the grand and squalid matter of all things human..."--Margaret Atwood, "Los Angeles Times"

[A] hymn to the gods of mischief, who are also the gods of artistic and cultural renewal. "Michael Dirda, The Washington Post"

A major work of scholarship that is also a major work of art. "Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University"

Brilliant . . . By the time [Hyde] is done he has folded language culture, and the very habit of being human into his ken. "The New Yorker"

Hyde is one of our true superstars of nonfiction. "David Foster Wallace"

["Trickster Makes This World"] should be ready by anyone interested in the grand and squalid matter of all things human. "Margaret Atwood, Los Angeles Times""

[A] hymn to the gods of mischief, who are also the gods of artistic and cultural renewal. Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

A major work of scholarship that is also a major work of art. Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University

Brilliant . . . By the time [Hyde] is done he has folded language culture, and the very habit of being human into his ken. The New Yorker

Hyde is one of our true superstars of nonfiction. David Foster Wallace

[Trickster Makes This World] should be ready by anyone interested in the grand and squalid matter of all things human. Margaret Atwood, Los Angeles Times

"[A] hymn to the gods of mischief, who are also the gods of artistic and cultural renewal." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

"A major work of scholarship that is also a major work of art." --Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University

"Brilliant . . . By the time [Hyde] is done he has folded language culture, and the very habit of being human into his ken." --The New Yorker

"Hyde is one of our true superstars of nonfiction." --David Foster Wallace

"[Trickster Makes This World] should be ready by anyone interested in the grand and squalid matter of all things human." --Margaret Atwood, Los Angeles Times

Review:

'Hyde is persuasive and is at his most interesting on contemporary tricksters.'

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