Bibliograph

The gift, creativity and the artist in the modern world, Lewis Hyde

Type

Label

The gift, creativity and the artist in the modern world, Lewis Hyde

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-391) and index

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The gift

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1048057563

Responsibility statement

Lewis Hyde

Sub title

creativity and the artist in the modern world

Summary

Examines the concept of gifts in anthropological terms and uses this approach to analyze the situation of creative artists and their gifts to society

Table Of Contents

Some food we could not eat -- The bones of the dead -- The labor of gratitude -- The bond -- The gift community -- A female property -- Usury : a history of gift exchange -- The commerce of the creative spirit -- A draft of Whitman -- Ezra Pound and the fate of vegetable money -- Conclusion -- On being good ancestors

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