Summoning the Familiar:
Powers and Rites of Common Life
THE CITY, CULTURE AND MYTH
Summoning the Familiar:
Powers and Rites of Common Life
by Eileen Gregory
The three
essays of this book are attempts to evoke a sense of the powers of soul which
dwell in individual lives and in culture. "Human Making and the Fires of the
Earth" brings new perspective to the myth of Prometheus, looking beyond the
modern image of the Titan as the patron of Technology and instead seeing him in
terms of the work with fire which he has made possible and necessary to human
life. "The Myth of the Lyric World" explores moments of intimate revelation
within ordinary life. "Friendship: A Marginal and Mixed Bond" considers this
often sentimentalized love as one of the most awesome of human potentialities.
ISBN: 0-911005-04-8
90 pages. Paper, $8.00
