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Irons in the Fire by Hall, Nor, author; Hall, Nor, author. End of the Iron Age is a reference work available to read on EtoBox.

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xi, 155 pages ; 23 cm "This book is described by Nor Hall as "a praise-piece to duplicitous metal-artful and harrowing-and to its handlers." Part One, "Irons in the Fire," is a prose character sketch of iron and iron workers, "the people who work iron and can't keep their hands off it." These are strangely passionate people (the real "Iron Johns" and "Janes"!) with "a compulsion to adore that binds them in an essential community of iron men and ferrous women." Offering a history, mythology, and psychology of the element iron, both alchemical and industrial, this work is a major addition to the tradition of non-dogmatic psychological commentary on myth that includes Jung, Bachelard, and James Hillman, to which Hall adds a profoundly feminist dimension. Author of the classic feminist work The Moon and the Virgin, Nor Hall writes her own visionary, erotic, psychotherapy as a mythopoetics. In this new work she draws new meaning from world mythology, particularly Yoruban Vodoun, and the Greek myths surrounding Vulcan (Hephaestus). Her psychological insight and literary flare illuminate a subject that, though rarely discussed, lies at the root of industrial modernity and its connection w

Who reads Irons in the Fire?

Author

Hall, Nor, author; Hall, Nor, author. End of the Iron Age

Publisher

Barrytown/Station Hill Press Inc

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781581771602

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.09 / 5 (437 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14