Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentSpringer, 1992 M06 18 - 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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... Beatrice verily does sit in the last Heaven near to the feet of Mary ? Yet , ' in reality ' Dante has to some extent put all these figures there : he has ' played God ' in his fiction and assigned these people by 21 Dante: The Commedia.
... Beatrice verily does sit in the last Heaven near to the feet of Mary ? Yet , ' in reality ' Dante has to some extent put all these figures there : he has ' played God ' in his fiction and assigned these people by 21 Dante: The Commedia.
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... Beatrice Portinari , who turned his soul with an intense desire at once human and divine , a desire cast into permanence by her death.8 Yet Dante's life was to be the reverse of secure or happy . He wrote the Commedia in exile from his ...
... Beatrice Portinari , who turned his soul with an intense desire at once human and divine , a desire cast into permanence by her death.8 Yet Dante's life was to be the reverse of secure or happy . He wrote the Commedia in exile from his ...
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... all too painfully in his experience of the loss of Beatrice . Thus his poem , while giving great imaginative excitement , does not remain with the blandishments of the image alone . That is one Dante : The ' Commedia ' 25.
... all too painfully in his experience of the loss of Beatrice . Thus his poem , while giving great imaginative excitement , does not remain with the blandishments of the image alone . That is one Dante : The ' Commedia ' 25.
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... Beatrice tells Dante , ' Christ did not say to his first company , " Go and preach idle stories to the world " , but he gave to them the true foundation ' ( ll . 109–11 ) . As for the workings of the creative im- agination , or ...
... Beatrice tells Dante , ' Christ did not say to his first company , " Go and preach idle stories to the world " , but he gave to them the true foundation ' ( ll . 109–11 ) . As for the workings of the creative im- agination , or ...
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... Beatrice exists too , both as herself and as God imprinted in flesh . Thus the Commedia can be at once a journey from this world to the next , a vision of Hell , Purgatory and Heaven , an exploration of the inner worlds of the soul , a ...
... Beatrice exists too , both as herself and as God imprinted in flesh . Thus the Commedia can be at once a journey from this world to the next , a vision of Hell , Purgatory and Heaven , an exploration of the inner worlds of the soul , a ...
Contenido
12 | |
21 | |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
The Faerie Queene Book I | 50 |
Dr Faustus | 73 |
The Metaphysical Poets | 94 |
42 | 107 |
The Pilgrims Progress | 115 |
Heaven and Hell | 131 |
The Little Black Boy and The Marriage | 144 |
Modern Christian Fantasy | 156 |
George MacDonalds Fairy Tales | 164 |
The WaterBabies | 330 |
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