Wild Men in the Looking Glass: The Mythic Origins of European OthernessUniversity of Michigan Press, 1994 - 232 Seiten "Long before the age of exploration, wild men inhabited the European imagination. These fascinating, hairy creatures have a long history of representation in art, literature, and folklore, appearing among other guises as satyrs and fauns in ancient Greece, mythical forest - and mountain-dwellers in the Middle Ages, and Shakespeare's Caliban and Cervantes's Cardenio in the Renaissance. Wild folk also captured the attention of naturalists, who investigated homo ferus and homo sylvestris, and philosophers, who elaborated the image of the noble savage." "In Wild Men in the Looking Glass, Roger Bartra searches out the roots of the European wild man myth and explores its long evolution. Turning the tables on those who suggest that the primitive peoples "discovered" and colonized by European explorers gave rise to the myth, Bartra finds that the wild man myth preceded and helped shape European reactions to real peoples. Indeed, he shows that the wild man underpins the notion of civilization on which much of Western identity has been based. The man we recognize as "civilized" has not been able to take a single step without the shadow of the wild man at his heel."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... suffering . Thus the desert also becomes a site where humanity can gain redemption . The Hebrew idea of the desert or wilderness came to acquire a moral connotation : it was nature deprived of meaning , as a punish- ment , as a trial ...
... suffering . Thus the desert also becomes a site where humanity can gain redemption . The Hebrew idea of the desert or wilderness came to acquire a moral connotation : it was nature deprived of meaning , as a punish- ment , as a trial ...
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... suffering , without possibilities of voluntarily reaching the state of grace aspired by monks of the desert . Augustine believed that corrup- tion had triumphed over nature ; death , sexual desire , illness , and pain are not a part of ...
... suffering , without possibilities of voluntarily reaching the state of grace aspired by monks of the desert . Augustine believed that corrup- tion had triumphed over nature ; death , sexual desire , illness , and pain are not a part of ...
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... suffering . His life of anticipation , dislocated from the present moment , sad when every- thing is going well , but happy in the face of adversity , is very striking . Bernheimer notes that the notion of the wild man as a moral model ...
... suffering . His life of anticipation , dislocated from the present moment , sad when every- thing is going well , but happy in the face of adversity , is very striking . Bernheimer notes that the notion of the wild man as a moral model ...
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Prologue | 1 |
Barren Nature | 43 |
The Epic of the Wild Man | 127 |
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