Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Construction of a World Before Time Sax Boria
Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Construction of a World Before Time Sax Boria Linking literature, philosophy, art, and personal experience, a moving exploration of the wooded landscape's power.In 1985…
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Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Construction of a World Before Time Sax Boria
Linking literature, philosophy, art, and personal experience, a moving exploration of the wooded landscape's power.In 1985 Boria Sax inherited an area of forest in New York State, which had been purchased by his Russian, Jewish, and Communist grandparents as a buffer against what they felt was a hostile world. In this personal and eloquent account, Sax explores the meanings and cultural history of forests from prehistory to the present, taking in Gilgamesh, Virgil, Dante, the Gawain poet, medieval alchemists, the Brothers Grimm, Hudson River painters, Latin American folklore, contemporary African novelists, and much more. For Sax, in the years following, the woodland came to represent a link with those who currently live and had lived there, including Native Americans, settlers, bears, deer, turtles, and migrating birds.
Combining lyricism with contemporary scholarship, Sax
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