Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentMacmillan, 1992 - 356 páginas This is the first account of invented stories involving the Christian supernatural. In their development a central concern is found to be the fantasy-making human imagination itself, at first seen as a obstacle to Christian purpose, but more recently given freer rein. |
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... continually overcome . After the defeat of Error , the path leads Una and Redcrosse , as it did not before , out of the wood . We may therefore call this illusion an illusion of direction . The next illusion of falsehood comes in the ...
... continually overcome . After the defeat of Error , the path leads Una and Redcrosse , as it did not before , out of the wood . We may therefore call this illusion an illusion of direction . The next illusion of falsehood comes in the ...
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... continually celebrates , or the highly wrought cosmic plan in Lewis , in which ' all is pattern ' , even down to the extremely complex ' literary ' unity of his Perelandra , or the very detailed con- sistency of the world of Middle ...
... continually celebrates , or the highly wrought cosmic plan in Lewis , in which ' all is pattern ' , even down to the extremely complex ' literary ' unity of his Perelandra , or the very detailed con- sistency of the world of Middle ...
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... continually displaces our appetite for the ' other ' towards a hunger for the Wholly Other . A sense of division seems to underlie much of Lewis's work . The Earth , ' a jungle of filth and imbecility ' , is cut off from the Celestial ...
... continually displaces our appetite for the ' other ' towards a hunger for the Wholly Other . A sense of division seems to underlie much of Lewis's work . The Earth , ' a jungle of filth and imbecility ' , is cut off from the Celestial ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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allegory angels Anodos Beatrice become Bible biblical Blake Bunyan C. S. Lewis Cambridge century character Charles Williams Christ Christian fantasy Church Commedia creation Dante Dante's death described desire devil divine dragon Duessa earth eternal evil fact Faerie Queene Fairy Land faith fantastic worlds Faustus Faustus's feel figure further George MacDonald God's Grail Heaven and Hell Holy human idea imagery imagination invented J. R. R. Tolkien journey Kingsley Kingsley's lady Lewis's Lilith Lion literary literature London Manlove Medieval Mephostophilis Milton mind Modern Fantasy moral mystic myth narrative nature North Wind novel Paradise Lost pattern Pearl Perelandra Phantastes picture Pilgrim's Progress planet play poem poet portrays Princess and Curdie Purgatory realise reality Redcrosse Satan science fiction seems seen sense Shardik significance soul Spenser spiritual story supernatural Swedenborg Tamburlaine tells theology things Tolkien true truth University Press Victorian vision Water-Babies whole writers