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The gift : creativity and the artist in the modern world

Lewis Hyde
Examines the concept of gifts in anthropological terms and uses this approach to analyze the situation of creative artists and their gifts to society
Print Book, English, 2007
25th anniversary ed. 2nd Vintage books ed View all formats and editions
Vintage Books, New York, 2007
xxiii, 435 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780307279507, 0307279502
179898720
I. A theory of gifts. 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
II. Two experiments in gift aesthetics. The commerce of the creative spirit ; A draft of Whitman ; Ezra Pound and the fate of vegetable money
Conclusion
On being good ancestors
"Originally published as The gift: imagination and the erotic life of property"--Title page verso