The Wild Man Within: An Image in Western Thought from the Renaissance to Romanticism by Edward Dudley, Maximillian E. Novak

The Wild Man Within: An Image in Western Thought from the Renaissance to Romanticism

Edward Dudley, Maximillian E. Novak

348 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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These essays trace the myth of the wild man from the Middle Ages to its disintegration into symbol in the periods following the discovery of America and encounter with real “wild men.”  This is the first book to discuss the concept of wildness in ...

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