Pan

The Great God's Modern Return

By: Paul Robichaud

Write A Review

eBook | 13 September 2021

At a Glance

Format
ePUB

eBook

RRP $34.09

$29.99

12%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $7.50 with

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

Part-goat, part-man, Pan bridges the divide between the human and animal worlds. In exquisite prose, Paul Robichaud explores how Pan has been imagined in mythology, art, literature, music, spirituality and popular culture through the centuries. At times, Pan is a dangerous, destabilizing force; at others, a source of fertility and renewal. His portrayals reveal shifting anxieties about our own animal impulses and our relationship to nature. Always the outsider, he has been the god of choice for gay writers, occult practitioners, and New Age mystics. Though ancient sources announced his death, he has lived on through the work of Arthur Machen, Gustav Mahler, Kenneth Grahame, D. H. Lawrence and countless others. Pan: The Great God's Modern Return traces his intoxicating dance.