Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentThis 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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His wife Gemma was left in Florence ; and later ( 1314 ) his sons too were
banished on pain of death . But the fact that he was thus made an outsider must
have given Dante a rare vantage point . He was perhaps able to see further into
the ...
His wife Gemma was left in Florence ; and later ( 1314 ) his sons too were
banished on pain of death . But the fact that he was thus made an outsider must
have given Dante a rare vantage point . He was perhaps able to see further into
the ...
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And Mr Weston , who gave it to man , has not , he says , experienced death ;
though he may have done so through Christ ( pp . 65 – 6 ) . It is a gulf between
him and his creation , and one that gives him pain , both because it is hard for his
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And Mr Weston , who gave it to man , has not , he says , experienced death ;
though he may have done so through Christ ( pp . 65 – 6 ) . It is a gulf between
him and his creation , and one that gives him pain , both because it is hard for his
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Typically of much science fiction , the story sees death as the enemy , and
continued physical and mental survival as an important good . There are not very
many ' terminal visions ' in science fiction which end with no further hope for a
future .
Typically of much science fiction , the story sees death as the enemy , and
continued physical and mental survival as an important good . There are not very
many ' terminal visions ' in science fiction which end with no further hope for a
future .
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Introduction | 1 |
The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
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| Título | Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the Present |
| Autor | Colin Nicholas Manlove |
| Editor | University of Notre Dame Press, 1992 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 29 Feb. 2008 |
| ISBN | 026800790X, 9780268007904 |
| Largo | 356 páginas |
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