Courting the Wild Twin

Courting the Wild Twin - Hardcover

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Courting the Wild Twin - Hardcover

Courting the Wild Twin - Hardcover

by Martin Shaw
$24.95
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Book Overview

"Fabulous."--Dan Richards, author of Holloway

"Terrifically strange and thrilling."--Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley

"A modern-day bard."--Madeline Miller, author of Circe

This is a book of literary activism - an antidote to the shallow thinking that typifies our age.

In Courting the Wild Twin, acclaimed scholar, mythologist and author of Smoke Hole and Bardskull, Martin Shaw unravels two ancient European fairy tales concerning the mysterious 'wild twin' located deep inside all of us. By reading these tales and becoming storytellers ourselves, he challenges us to confront modern life with purpose, courage, and creativity.

Martin summons the reader to the "ragged edge of the dark wood" to seek out this estranged, exiled self - the part we generally shun or ignore to conform to societal norms - and invite it back into our consciousness. If there was something we were meant to do with our few, brief years on Earth, we can be sure that our wild twin is holding the key.

After all, stories are our secret weapons - and they might just save us.
ISBN9781603589505
Author Martin Shaw
PublisherChelsea Green Publishing UK
GenreEducation and Self-help & personal development
FormatHardcover
PublishedFebruary 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages144
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Dr. Martin Shaw is a writer, mythographer, and Christian thinker who has authored seventeen books. He holds a visiting position at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University and is a fellow of the Temenos Academy. He founded the Oral Tradition and Mythic Life courses at Stanford University and is director of the Westcountry School of Myth in the UK. For thirty years Shaw has been a wilderness rites-of-passage guide, working with men and women seeking a deeper life.

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