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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... Literary Achievement * CRITICAL THINKING : A Guide to Interpreting Literary Texts * Also published by Macmillan Christian Fantasy From 1200 to the Present COLIN MANLOVE Reader.
... Literary Achievement * CRITICAL THINKING : A Guide to Interpreting Literary Texts * Also published by Macmillan Christian Fantasy From 1200 to the Present COLIN MANLOVE Reader.
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... literary genre of Christian fantasy , must at the same time admit its dis- appearance – like a star whose light reaches us while its source is gone . Even while it is in part intended as a celebration of the variety of this genre , it ...
... literary genre of Christian fantasy , must at the same time admit its dis- appearance – like a star whose light reaches us while its source is gone . Even while it is in part intended as a celebration of the variety of this genre , it ...
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... literary critics in the Queste . The whole work is studded with long passages of explication in spiritual terms of almost every event . Above all , we are made directly aware of the fact that it is made to be the re - creation in ...
... literary critics in the Queste . The whole work is studded with long passages of explication in spiritual terms of almost every event . Above all , we are made directly aware of the fact that it is made to be the re - creation in ...
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... literary and fictive level of creation - to Virgil , the Muslim picture of Hell , the Celestial Hierarchies of Pseudo - Dionysius and the Islamic Mi'raj ; but even those indebtednesses he so transforms and elaborates that it is better ...
... literary and fictive level of creation - to Virgil , the Muslim picture of Hell , the Celestial Hierarchies of Pseudo - Dionysius and the Islamic Mi'raj ; but even those indebtednesses he so transforms and elaborates that it is better ...
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... literary language of Latin ; 10 and he put contemporaries or near - contemporaries from his own society into his poetry , instead of only imaginary , historically remote or biblical figures . Last , and most important for us , he chose ...
... literary language of Latin ; 10 and he put contemporaries or near - contemporaries from his own society into his poetry , instead of only imaginary , historically remote or biblical figures . Last , and most important for us , he chose ...
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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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