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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... writer , to value the invention and originality in the earlier writers , to respond to them as creators , and to attempt ... writers had not been.13 The interest of most literature prior to Dante had been doctrinal , concerned with the ...
... writer , to value the invention and originality in the earlier writers , to respond to them as creators , and to attempt ... writers had not been.13 The interest of most literature prior to Dante had been doctrinal , concerned with the ...
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... writers in admitting the draught from outside . even if There is a sense in all this division , in this painful separation of man from God , earth from heaven , image from reality , of a departure , as though for Lewis God has now ...
... writers in admitting the draught from outside . even if There is a sense in all this division , in this painful separation of man from God , earth from heaven , image from reality , of a departure , as though for Lewis God has now ...
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... writers of Christian fantasy themselves often see it as drawing on truth , 3-5 ; ' Christian fantasy ' defined , 5-6 ; variety of works in , 5-6 ; degree of their mutual indebtedness , 6 ; no previous book on subject of , 6–7 ...
... writers of Christian fantasy themselves often see it as drawing on truth , 3-5 ; ' Christian fantasy ' defined , 5-6 ; variety of works in , 5-6 ; degree of their mutual indebtedness , 6 ; no previous book on subject of , 6–7 ...
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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