The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property

Hyde, Lewis

ISBN 10: 0099273225 / ISBN 13: 9780099273226

Published by Vintage, 1999

About this Item

1999. paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # KSG0040124

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099273225
• ISBN 13: 9780099273226
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Starting with the premise that the work of art is a gift and not a commodity, this revolutionary book ranges across anthropology, literature, economics, and psychology to show how the 'commerce of the creative spirit' functions in the lives of artists and in culture as a whole.

About the Author

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 counselor, 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 lives in Ohio, where he is completing a third book.