Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human - Softcover

Sax, Boria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789145457 ISBN 13: 9781789145458

Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2022

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Tales throughout the world generally place fabulous beasts in marginal locations – deserts, deep woods, remote islands, glaciers, ocean depths, mountain peaks, caves, swamps, heavenly bodies and alternate universes. Legends tell us that imaginary animals belong to a primordial time, before we had encompassed the world with names, categories and scientific knowledge.
This book traces the history of imaginary animals from Palaeolithic art to the Harry Potter stories, and beyond. It shows how imagined creatures help us psychologically, giving form to our subconscious fears as ‘monsters’, as well as embodying our hopes as ‘wonders’. Nevertheless, their greatest service may be to continually challenge our imaginations, directing us beyond the limitations of our conventional beliefs and expectations.

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Boria Sax teaches at Sing Sing prison and online in the graduate literature programme at Mercy College. He has published many books, which have won awards and been translated into numerous languages. His most recent is Avian Illuminations: A Cultural History of Birds (Reaktion, 2021).

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A beautifully history of imaginary animals from Palaeolithic art to Harry Potter.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Reaktion Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1789145457
• ISBN 13: 9781789145458
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 278
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar