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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... kind of world I wanted to explore is well described by C. S. Lewis : No merely physical strangeness or merely spatial distance will realise that idea of otherness which is what we are always trying to grasp in a story about voyaging ...
... kind of world I wanted to explore is well described by C. S. Lewis : No merely physical strangeness or merely spatial distance will realise that idea of otherness which is what we are always trying to grasp in a story about voyaging ...
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... kind which embraces all the essence of fairy - stories . They contain many marvels – peculiarly artistic , beautiful , and moving : " mythical " in their perfect , self - contained significance ; and among the marvels is the greatest ...
... kind which embraces all the essence of fairy - stories . They contain many marvels – peculiarly artistic , beautiful , and moving : " mythical " in their perfect , self - contained significance ; and among the marvels is the greatest ...
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... kind of stripping . Redcrosse is stripped of his pride , his illusions and even much of his flesh , to be new - made in the House of Holiness . The evil is divested of shows , first via the false realism of Despair , and thence to the ...
... kind of stripping . Redcrosse is stripped of his pride , his illusions and even much of his flesh , to be new - made in the House of Holiness . The evil is divested of shows , first via the false realism of Despair , and thence to the ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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