Madeleine Houston, Eco-Narcisism, Echo Logic/ Safron Courter, The Court of Wilderness…/ Doyle Hollister, Soul of Place and the Instinctual Life

 
Madeleine Houston, PhD Eco-Narcissism, Echo Logic For this presentation, Ovid's tale of Echo and Narcissus will be considered in the context of the human relationship with the non-human world. Even as nature echoes back to us the direct consequences of our actions, we that endanger us. Were we able to respond to the clear messages that the natural world calls back to us, that which is beautiful in human culture might not waste away and the human species might not extinguish itself. ASafron Courter, MA The Court in the Wilderness and the Wilderness in the Court The legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, written in the late 14th century, has been known as one of the finest Arthurian romances in English literature because of its treatment of the themes of love, heroism and ho of nature as the psychological shadow land, the forbidden woods whereupon all that is experienced as uncivilized and undigested in the human experience remains both physically and psychically. From this psychologica Arthurian court whose highly civilized, chivalric philosophy represents some of the ideals of humanity and the chaotic, brutal realm of nature. The Arthurian way of life that is represented by Sir Gawain comes into direct co Knight. Embodying the unnerving and disorienting effect that nature can have upon the social world of human construction, the Green Knight challenges the seemingly civilized human world in a number of provocative wa same time critiquing society by its own constructions. Safron Courter is a PhD student at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is currently very fond of French feminist scholars and is preparing to begin her dissertation on feminine triads in comparative mythology using a feminis which the woman/scholar does not allow anyone to think in her place....