Courting the Wild Twin (Buch von 2020)

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Martin Shaw: Courting the Wild Twin. Chelsea Green, 2020.

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The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

Courting the Wild Twin is a book of literary activism – an antidote to the shallow thinking that typifies our age. It challenges us to wake up, to revive our ‘condition of wondering’ and to examine our broken relationship with the world.

Acclaimed scholar, mythologist and author of Bardskull and Smole Hole, Martin Shaw unravels two ancient European fairy tales conerning the musterious ‘wild twin’ located deep inside all of us. He summons us to the ‘ragged edge of the dark wood’ to seek out this estranged, exiled self – the part we shun or ignore to conform to societal norms – and he challenges us to invite it back into our consciousness. If there was something we were meant to do with our few, brief years on Earth, our wild twin is holding the key.

After all, stories are our secret weapons – and they might just save us.