From ancient myth to contemporary art and literature, a beguiling look at the many incarnations of the mischievous--and culturally immortal--god Pan, now in paperback.
Pan: The Great God\'s Modern Return traces his intoxicating dance..
Lawrence, and countless others.
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And although ancient sources announced his death, he has lived on through the work of Arthur Machen, Gustav Mahler, Kenneth Grahame, D.
Always the outsider, he has been the god of choice for gay writers, occult practitioners, and New Age mystics.
His portrayals reveal shifting anxieties about our own animal impulses and our relationship to nature.
At times, Pan is a dangerous, destabilizing force; sometimes, a source of fertility and renewal.
In exquisite prose, Paul Robichaud explores how Pan has been imagined in mythology, art, literature, music, spirituality, and popular culture through the centuries.
Part-goat, part-man, Pan bridges the divide between the human and animal worlds.
Still, the ways in which Pan has been imagined have varied wildly--fitting for a god whose very name the ancients confused with the Greek word meaning all.
Panic is the name given to the peculiar feeling we experience in his presence.
From classical myth to Modern literature, film, and music, the god Pan has long fascinated and terrified the western imagination.
Pan--he of the cloven hoof and lustful grin, beckoning through the trees.
From ancient myth to contemporary art and literature, a beguiling look at the many incarnations of the mischievous--and culturally immortal--god Pan, now in paperback
