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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... less : less in Herbert , more in Crashaw , more in Cleveland , less in Marvell . Herbert faces the issue plainly in his ' Jordan ' poems . In ' Jordan ( I ) ' he asks , ' Who sayes that fictions onely and false hair / Become a verse ...
... less : less in Herbert , more in Crashaw , more in Cleveland , less in Marvell . Herbert faces the issue plainly in his ' Jordan ' poems . In ' Jordan ( I ) ' he asks , ' Who sayes that fictions onely and false hair / Become a verse ...
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... less given than invented . Some images - of the body , the City , the beloved , or of pattern and rule - seem to have an almost sacramental character for Williams , but the imagined worlds are seen , like most other created things , as ...
... less given than invented . Some images - of the body , the City , the beloved , or of pattern and rule - seem to have an almost sacramental character for Williams , but the imagined worlds are seen , like most other created things , as ...
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... less and less certain . The need for fantasy to be oriented towards being rather than becoming , towards the contemplation of a Reality at least as much as action within it , is one that is also peculiar to post- Romantic Christian ...
... less and less certain . The need for fantasy to be oriented towards being rather than becoming , towards the contemplation of a Reality at least as much as action within it , is one that is also peculiar to post- Romantic Christian ...
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