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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... significance ; and among the marvels is the greatest and most complete conceivable euca- tastrophe [ " happy ending " ] ' . 4 In the seventeenth century , when the use of the supernatural and the free imagination were under attack in ...
... significance ; and among the marvels is the greatest and most complete conceivable euca- tastrophe [ " happy ending " ] ' . 4 In the seventeenth century , when the use of the supernatural and the free imagination were under attack in ...
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... significance , and in an explicatory chapter on ' The Legend of the Tree of Life ' we are given a good idea of what that significance might be . And , while numbers of scriptural and typological patterns may be detected within the story ...
... significance , and in an explicatory chapter on ' The Legend of the Tree of Life ' we are given a good idea of what that significance might be . And , while numbers of scriptural and typological patterns may be detected within the story ...
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... significance contained in them . We are inclined to attend , to put it in medieval terms , to the literal rather than the allegoric levels . Nor can it be denied that for Dante himself the voyage was not only one to Heaven , but also ...
... significance contained in them . We are inclined to attend , to put it in medieval terms , to the literal rather than the allegoric levels . Nor can it be denied that for Dante himself the voyage was not only one to Heaven , but also ...
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... that we will not be seduced by them , but will constantly see their spiritual significance or the larger pattern to which they belong Iand this without direct - authorial pointing . But in doing so , as we 26 Christian Fantasy.
... that we will not be seduced by them , but will constantly see their spiritual significance or the larger pattern to which they belong Iand this without direct - authorial pointing . But in doing so , as we 26 Christian Fantasy.
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... significance prevents us from seeing the fact of the stone potholed like cheese , with the legs sticking out and waving under almost ludicrous torment from the agony of their burning extremities : in a way it could be said that , the ...
... significance prevents us from seeing the fact of the stone potholed like cheese , with the legs sticking out and waving under almost ludicrous torment from the agony of their burning extremities : in a way it could be said that , the ...
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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