Snowy Tower : Parzival and the Wet Black Branch of Language.
Title:
Snowy Tower : Parzival and the Wet Black Branch of Language.
Author:
Shaw, Martin.
ISBN:
9781935952930
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (216 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One: The Hawk at Daybreak -- Chapter 1. Magical Privacy -- Chapter 2. The Shaggy Margins of Existence -- Chapter 3. Living the Twisted Knot -- Chapter 4. The Old-World Mentor: Outer Teachings -- Chapter 5. The Heart Besieged: Waking the Ecstatic Man and Woman -- Chapter 6. Finding Wild Mountain: The Hallucination of Empire -- Part Two: The Maymed Kynge -- Chapter 7. Hard Legacies -- Chapter 8. The Falcon, the Blood, the Snow -- Chapter 9. The Cynocephalic Virgin: Shame's Rough Music -- Chapter 10. Hermitage of Star-Fire: Inner Teachings -- Chapter 11. Courting the Mottled Brother -- Chapter 12. Tusks, Tails, and Glory: The Grail Company -- Epilogue. Tigerish Praise and Apple Blossom Speech for the Woman that Lives at the Edge of the World. -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Parzival (story in complete form) -- Bibliography -- About the Author.
Abstract:
In Snowy Tower, Dr. Martin Shaw continues his trilogy of works on the relationship between myth, wilderness, and a culture of wildness. In this second book, he gives a telling of the Grail epic Parzival. Claiming it as a great trickster story of medieval Europe, he offers a deft and erudite commentary, with topics ranging from climate change and the soul to the discipline of erotic consciousness, from the hallucination of empire to a revisioning of the dark speech of the ancient bards. Ingrained in the very syntax of Snowy Tower is an invocation of what Shaw calls 'wild mythologies' - stories that are more than just human allegory, that seem to brush the winged thinking of owl, stream, and open moor. This daring work offers a connection to the genius of the margins; that the big questions of today will not be solved by big answers, but by the myriad of associations that both myth and wilderness offer.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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