abstract
- For Algernon Blackwood, Nature was that other environment where experience could extend beyond the limits imposed by the symbolic order that frames civilization. This chapter studies the presence of an alternative interaction for humans and Nature in the stories: ¿The Old Man of Visions¿ (1907), ¿The Touch of Pan¿ (1917) and ¿The Valley of the Beasts¿ (1921). In the three of them, Blackwood¿s characters enter the realms of wild Nature and come back changed after having realized that we are as nonhuman as the creatures we have labelled as such in a vain attempt to claim superiority over them.