Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human
A Nonfiction book. Monsters can help us by giving a tangible form to our secret fears....
Fire-breathing dragons, beautiful mermaids, majestic unicorns, terrifying three-headed dogs—these fantastic creatures have long excited our imagination. Medieval authors placed them in the borders of manuscripts as markers of the boundaries of our understanding. Tales from around the world place these beasts in deserts, deep woods, remote islands, ocean depths, and alternate universes—just out of our reach. And in the sections on the apocalypse in the Bible, they proliferate as the end of time approaches, with horses with heads like lions, dragons, and serpents signaling the destruction of the world. Legends tell us that imaginary animals belong to a primordial time, before everything in the world had names, categories, and conceptual frameworks. In this book, Boria Sax...
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Monsters can help us by giving a tangible form to our secret fears. It is less widely appreciated today that wonders such as the unicorn legitimize our hopes. But all imaginary animals, to some degree all animals, are ultimately both monsters and wonders, which assist us by deflecting and absorbing our uncertainties . It is hard to tell imaginary animals from symbolic, exemplary, heraldic, stylized, poetic, literary, or stereotypical ones. What is reality? Until we answer that question with confidence, a sharp differentiation between real animals and...
Hands down, one of the best books I've read in years. This is one of those eclectic books that goes great on a coffee table, den, or simply in your library. However, it's not one of those books that you simply just put away. It should be read, preferably with hot cocoa, coffee, or wine if that's your thing. It's both relaxing and stimulating.... For a book that I had to read for class it was a great book to read!! I learned so much! Any one who has an interest in the world of magical animals should read this book. Firstly the name Boria Sax is perfect for the nature of the book subject - imaginary animals. Boria Sax sounds like a character right out of Harry Potter. The book reads like a PhD thesis on imaginary animals. Sax colours his theory with some pretty sophisticated sentences that could put off many from reading this. Although not for...
