Lewis Hyde

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A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past...

Lewis Hyde

“One of our true superstars of nonfiction” (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche. We live in a culture...

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Published: Jun 2020

Common as Air

Lewis Hyde

Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present. Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is "in...

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Published: Aug 2011

The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Tra...

Lewis Hyde

A modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time, The Gift is a brilliant, life-changing defense of the value of creative labor. Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, econ...

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Published: Oct 2019

Trickster Makes This World: Mischief,...

Lewis Hyde

In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories—Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna i...

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Published: Aug 2010
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