The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art by Brown, Andy

The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350327290)

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The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art by Brown, Andy

The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art

$90.00
The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art by Brown, Andy

The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art

$90.00
Format: Hardcover
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Our relationship with trees is a lengthy, complex one. Since we first walked the earth we have, at various times, worshiped them, felled them and even talked to them. For many of us, though, our first memories of interacting with trees will be of climbing them.

Exploring how tree climbers have been represented in literature and art in Europe and North America over the ages, The Tree Climbing Cure unpacks the curative value of tree climbing, examining when and why tree climbers climb, and what tree climbing can do for (and say about) the climber's mental health and wellbeing.

Bringing together research into poetry, novels, and paintings with the science of wellbeing and mental health and engaging with myth, folklore, psychology and storytelling, Tree Climber also examines the close relationship between tree climbing and imagination, and questions some longstanding, problematic gendered injunctions about women climbing trees.

Discussing, among others, the literary works of Margaret Atwood; Charlotte Bronte; Geoffrey Chaucer; Angela Carter; Kiran Desai; and J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as work by artists such as Peter Doig; Paula Rego; and Goya, this book stands out as an almost encyclopedic examination of cultural representations of this quirky and ultimately restorative pastime.

Author: Andy Brown
ISBN-10: 1350327298
ISBN-13: 9781350327290
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 01/12/2023
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
By Andy Brown
By Andy Brown
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Andy Brown is Professor of Creative Writing & English at Exeter University, UK. He co-edited the anthology A Body of Work: an anthology of poetry and medicine among other edited books on poetry and poetics, including The Writing Occurs as Song: a Kelvin Corcoran reader. He is also widely known in the UK and abroad as a distinguished lyric poet and has published over ten original poetry collections.

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