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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Hyde, Lewis, 1945- author.     Subjects     Memory.     Psychology.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hyde, Lewis, 1945- author.       by title:      A primer for forgett...         MARC Display

A primer for forgetting : getting past the past / Lewis Hyde. by Hyde, Lewis, 1945- author. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. Subjects Memory.   Psychology. ISBN:  9780374237219 (hardcover) : 0374237212 (hardcover) : Description:  372 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  What this is -- Notebook I: myth -- Notebook II: self -- Notebook III: nation -- Notebook IV: creator. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 is a remarkable experiment in scholarship, autobiography, and social criticism by the author of the classics The Gift and Trickster Makes This World. It forges a new vision of forgetfulness by assembling fragments of art and writing from the ancient world to the modern, weighing the potential boons forgetfulness might offer the present moment as a creative and political force. It also turns inward, using the author's own life and memory as a canvas upon which to extol the virtues of a concept too long taken as an evil. Drawing material from Hesiod to Jorge Luis Borges to Elizabeth Bishop to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, from myths and legends to very real and recent traumas both personal and historical, A Primer for Forgetting is a unique and remarkable synthesis that only Lewis Hyde could have produced."--Page [2] of cover.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 153.125 Hy Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 153.125 Hyde Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 153.125 Hy Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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