Word of Re-enchantment
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by Anthony Nanson
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CONTENTS LIST
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Foreword by Eric Maddern
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Introduction: the impetus of desire
MYTH
Mythscapes of Arcadia
Mythic Patterns in Popular Entertainment
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The Metaphysics of Imaginary Worlds
Lost Islands: myth and reality
Wonder Voyages
The Myth of King Arthur: a creative tradition
The Promise and Pitfalls of Christian Agenda in Stephen Lawhead’s Pendragon Cycle
STORYTELLING
Telling Merlin
Writing It and Telling It
Listening to Hugh Lupton
The Meeting of Sacred and Secular
The Telling Place
The Benefits of Amateur Storytelling
What Does ‘Accreditation’ Mean?
Telling Other Peoples’ Stories
The Storytelling Imagination as Catalyst of Tolerance and Transformation
ECOBARDIC
Tales to Sustain
What Do You Mean, ‘Ecobardic’?
Age of Enchantment
Mapping the Ecobardic Territory
Faith, Freedom, and the Fast-Capitalist Commodification of Story
Telling Stories from the Big Picture of Ecological History
Two Sides to a Story: storytelling as a tool of the imagination in conflicts
over environmental resources
How Can Storytelling Re-enchant the Natural World in an Electronic Age?
The Big Picture and the Bigger Picture
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index