Trickster Makes This World: How The Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture by Lewis Hyde
Trickster Makes This World: How The Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture

Lewis Hyde

Trickster Makes This World: How The Disruptive Imagination Creates Culture

Lewis Hyde

432 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction art history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
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This book is ideal for intellectually curious readers fascinated by how rebellious creativity and subversive myths shape societies, blending ancient tales with modern art to challenge conventional views of culture.

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Trickster Makes This World solidifies Lewis Hyde's reputation as, in Robert Bly's words, "the most subtle, thorough, and brilliant mythologist we now have." In it, Hyde now brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it ...

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Moods

informative: 80%

reflective: 57%

challenging: 33%

inspiring: 28%

funny: 19%

adventurous: 14%

mysterious: 14%

lighthearted: 4%


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39% of readers chose medium
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