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Forests : the shadow of civilization / Robert Pogue Harrison.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1992.Description: xiii, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226318060
  • 9780226318066
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN56.F64 H37 1992
Online resources:
Contents:
1. First the Forests -- Vico's giants -- The Demon of Gilgamesh -- The Virgin goddess -- Dionysos -- The Sorrows of Rhea Silvia -- From mythic origins to deforestation -- 2. Shadows of Law -- The Knight's adventure -- Forest law -- Outlaws -- Dante's Line of error -- Shadows of love -- The human age -- Macbeth's Conclusion -- 3. Enlightenment -- The Ways of Method -- What is enlightenment? A questiom for foresters -- Rousseau -- Conrad's brooding gloom -- Roquentin's nightmare -- Wastelands -- 4. Forest of Nostalgia -- Forest and world in Wordsworth's poem -- The Brothers Grimm -- Waiting for Dionysos -- 5. Dwelling -- The Elm tree -- London versus Epping Forest -- The Woods of Walden -- Fallingwater -- Andrea Zonzotto.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-276) and index.

1. First the Forests -- Vico's giants -- The Demon of Gilgamesh -- The Virgin goddess -- Dionysos -- The Sorrows of Rhea Silvia -- From mythic origins to deforestation -- 2. Shadows of Law -- The Knight's adventure -- Forest law -- Outlaws -- Dante's Line of error -- Shadows of love -- The human age -- Macbeth's Conclusion -- 3. Enlightenment -- The Ways of Method -- What is enlightenment? A questiom for foresters -- Rousseau -- Conrad's brooding gloom -- Roquentin's nightmare -- Wastelands -- 4. Forest of Nostalgia -- Forest and world in Wordsworth's poem -- The Brothers Grimm -- Waiting for Dionysos -- 5. Dwelling -- The Elm tree -- London versus Epping Forest -- The Woods of Walden -- Fallingwater -- Andrea Zonzotto.