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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... Blake : The Little Black Boy ' and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 144 12 Modern Christian Fantasy 156 13 George MacDonald's Fairy Tales 164 14 Charles Kingsley : The Water - Babies 183 15 Twentieth - Century Christian Fantasy 209 16 ...
... Blake : The Little Black Boy ' and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 144 12 Modern Christian Fantasy 156 13 George MacDonald's Fairy Tales 164 14 Charles Kingsley : The Water - Babies 183 15 Twentieth - Century Christian Fantasy 209 16 ...
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... Blake's ' Little Black Boy ' pictures a heaven where he will be consoled for the miseries he has suffered on earth . Kingsley looks for ' absolute divine miracle ' within created nature . They are all extraordinarily different , and all ...
... Blake's ' Little Black Boy ' pictures a heaven where he will be consoled for the miseries he has suffered on earth . Kingsley looks for ' absolute divine miracle ' within created nature . They are all extraordinarily different , and all ...
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... Blake and particularly Charles Williams owe much to the poem . Spenser may be indebted to the French Queste ; Bunyan has much in common with Spenser , Blake looks often to Swedenborg ; MacDonald to both these and to Spenser and Milton ...
... Blake and particularly Charles Williams owe much to the poem . Spenser may be indebted to the French Queste ; Bunyan has much in common with Spenser , Blake looks often to Swedenborg ; MacDonald to both these and to Spenser and Milton ...
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... Blake , who reverses the traditional categories of ' Messiah ' and ' Satan ' , still creates an inverted Christian universe . And it is fair to say that most of these works seek to persuade us of the supernatural reality of Christ and ...
... Blake , who reverses the traditional categories of ' Messiah ' and ' Satan ' , still creates an inverted Christian universe . And it is fair to say that most of these works seek to persuade us of the supernatural reality of Christ and ...
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... Blake , and it is fair to say that at present , too , they are in eclipse . ( By this is meant ' dramatised ' works , fictions : there are plenty of visions of the afterworld or near- death experiences up to 1400 , as there are in ...
... Blake , and it is fair to say that at present , too , they are in eclipse . ( By this is meant ' dramatised ' works , fictions : there are plenty of visions of the afterworld or near- death experiences up to 1400 , as there are in ...
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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