
The Gift
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Lewis Hyde has been championed by some of the greatest artists of our time. He addresses the questions we face every day in our public and private lives.
Reviews / Votes
A masterpiece . . . THE GIFT is the best book I know of for the aspiring young, for talented but unacknowledged creators, or even for those who have achieved material success and are worried that this means they've sold out. It gets at the core of their dilemma: how to maintain yourself alive in a world of money, when the essential part of what you do cannot be bought or sold -- Margaret Atwood Reminds us of our cultural gifts and our responsibilities to them . . . a manifesto of sorts . . . In a climate where we know the price of everything and the value of nothing, Lewis Hyde offers us an account of those few, essential aspects of human experience that transcend commodity, or that will do so, if you let them -- Zadie Smith Helpful, beautiful and profound. It will change the way you look at everything * * Independent on Sunday * * Buy several copies for yourself and the rest of your friends interested in, well, anything . . . Hyde is far more than an astute cultural critic; he's an original and important thinker. Pass it on -- Geoff Dyer Few books are such life-changers as THE GIFT -- Jonathan Lethem Tiger balm for tired minds * * Sunday Times * * No one who is invested in any kind of art, in questions of what real art does and doesn't have to do with money, spirituality, ego, love, ugliness, sales, politics, morality, marketing, and whatever you call 'value', can read THE GIFT and remain unchanged -- David Foster Wallace Persuasive and fascinatingly illustrated, The Gift profits immensely from the modesty and unpretentiousness of Hyde's writing and the fascinated good nature with which he expounds his propositions -- Tim Martin * * Independent on Sunday * * Brilliant - by the time he is done he has folded language, culture and the very habit of being human into his ken * * New Yorker * * This wonderful, erudite and quirky book is a way of re-establishing a link with our imaginative life -- Jeanette WintersonMore details
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Person
A MacArthur Fellow and former Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, Hyde is currently the Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College in Ohio.
Content
- The Gift
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I: A Theory Of Gifts
- Chapter One: Some Food We Could Not Eat
- Chapter Two: The Bones Of The Dead
- Chapter Three: The Labor Of Gratitude
- Chapter Four: The Bond
- Chapter Five: The Gift Community
- Chapter Six: A Female Property
- Chapter Seven: Usury: A History Of Gift Exchange
- Part II: Two Experiments In Gift Aesthetics
- Chapter Eight: The Commerce Of The Creative Spirit
- Chapter Nine: A Draft Of Whitman
- Chapter Ten: Ezra Pound And The Fate Of Vegetable Money
- Conclusion
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright
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