Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentUniversity of Notre Dame Press, 1992 - 356 páginas This is the first account of invented stories of the Christian supernatural, of fantasies that depict imagined forms of heaven or hell, angel or devil, world and creator; it considers their growth and changes from the time of Dante to the present day. Relatively infrequent, such works nevertheless for centuries represented some of the highest aspirations of art. Works considered here include the French Queste del Saint Graal, Dante's Commedia, the Middle English Pearl, the first book of Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell and poems by Blake; and, from the post-Romantic and increasingly less 'Christian' period, the fantasies of George MacDonald, Charles Kingsley, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis and many others. In the development of these works, a primary issue is found to be the fantasy-making imagination itself, at first seen as a potential obstacle to plain Christian purpose, but more recently given freer rein in the new aim of demonstrating God's existence in a more secular world. The picture that emerges is of a literary mode which becomes more fictive and indirect in its presentation of Christian vision. |
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... choice of this subject ; for what else , on this level , is it , but his own exile from the world and a journey through pain to a society that will not betray him and a love that cannot die ? The journey through Hell is one where ...
... choice of this subject ; for what else , on this level , is it , but his own exile from the world and a journey through pain to a society that will not betray him and a love that cannot die ? The journey through Hell is one where ...
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... choice . Then what is the soliloquy for ? It is a way of giving spurious rationalisation to a predetermined choice - a choice made not from any love of superior learning , but out of greed for power . The soliloquy , with its apparently ...
... choice . Then what is the soliloquy for ? It is a way of giving spurious rationalisation to a predetermined choice - a choice made not from any love of superior learning , but out of greed for power . The soliloquy , with its apparently ...
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... choice , for us to admire and be terrified by . This book is without doubt not only a powerfully ' realistic ' Christian vision of history ; it is one of the most deeply felt and convincing science - fiction works ever written . Not ...
... choice , for us to admire and be terrified by . This book is without doubt not only a powerfully ' realistic ' Christian vision of history ; it is one of the most deeply felt and convincing science - fiction works ever written . Not ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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