num_pages: 128
description: Master mythologist Martin Shaw uses timeless story-wisdom to examine our broken relationship with the world.There is an old legend that says we each have a wild curious twin that was thrown out the window the night we were born taking much of our vitality with them. If there was something we were meant to do with our few brief years on Earth we can be sure that the wild twin is holding the key.In Courting the Wild Twin Dr. Martin Shaw invites us to seek out our wild twina metaphor for the part of ourselves that we generally shun or ignore to conform to societal normsto invite them back into our consciousness for they have something important to tell us. He challenges us to examine our broken relationship with the world to think boldly wildly and in new ways about ourselvesas individuals and as a collective.Through the use of scholarship storytelling and personal reflection Shaw unpacks two ancient European fairy tales that concern the mysterious wild twin. By reading these tales and becoming storytellers ourselves he suggests we can restore our agency and confront modern challenges with purpose courage and creativity.Courting the Wild Twin is a declaration of literary activism and an antidote to the shallow thinking that typifies our age. Shaw asks us to recognize mythology as a secret weapona radical beautiful heart-shuddering agent of deep lasting change.
language: English
title: Courting the Wild Twin
publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company