forests

The Forests of Dante’s Inferno

In the first of our forests of fiction series, Peter Olson and I explore the two forests of Dante’s Inferno.

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The Forests of Our Imagination – Intro

Whenever we enter a fictional forest – whether in a film, a novel or a fairy tale – we know we’re bound for a story of adventure, possibly of danger, magic or transformation.  Why is the forest such an evocative place in our stories? What does it stand for? And what does the imagined forest…

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