Lewis Hyde
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In this lively, carefully argued, and well-documented book, Hyde brings the past to bear on present matters, shedding fresh light on everything from the Human Genome Project to Bob Dylan's musical root, revealing a vision of how to reclaim the commonwealth of art and ideas that we were meant to inherit.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Lewis Hyde's ambitious and captivating book brings to life the playful and disruptive side of the human imagination embodied in the Trickster mythology. Most at home on the road or at the twilight edge of town, tricksters are consummate boundary-crossers, slipping through keyholes, breaching walls, subverting defense systems. Always out to satisfy their inordinate appetites, lying, cheating, and stealing, tricksters are a great bother to have around,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"We live in a culture that prizes memory--how much we can store, the quality of what's preserved, how we might better document and retain the moments of our life while fighting off the nightmare of losing all that we have experienced. But what if forgetfulness were seen not as something to fear--be it in the form of illness or simple absentmindedness--but rather as a blessing, a balm, a path to peace and rebirth? Lewis Hyde's A Primer for Forgetting...
7) Gift
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It is a tribute to something that can't be measured or counted, bought, or sold. Exploring the parallels between artists' work and a gift economy, it's a reflection on the creative process and the beauty and challenges of fearlessly giving and receiving." --
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Max Deacon and Dan Stevens.
At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds.