The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World

Name: The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
Brand: Canongate Books
SKU: 9780857868473
Price: 16.65 EUR
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English

By (author): Lewis Hyde

The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology Lewis Hyde's modern masterpiece has at its heart the simple and important idea that a 'gift' can inspire and change our lives. See more

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Weight: 281g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 06 Dec 2012
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780857868473

About Lewis Hyde

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 kind of disruptive imagination that 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's most recent book is Common as Air a stirring defence of our cultural commons that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present.A MacArthur Fellow and former Director of Creative Writing at Harvard Hyde is currently the Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College in Ohio.