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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... soul . The fantasy of this drama may as we have suggested be conceived as one engineered by the deity . It is a fantasy in which a supernatural creation , a soul , is seen to shrivel and shrink before our eyes , under the direct action ...
... soul . The fantasy of this drama may as we have suggested be conceived as one engineered by the deity . It is a fantasy in which a supernatural creation , a soul , is seen to shrivel and shrink before our eyes , under the direct action ...
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... soul as host , and the growing joy of the news as it comes nearer . The imagery is as fused to the experience as the soul is to the news . Not all Traherne's poetry is like this , and less so Vaughan's . The poetry of Richard Crashaw ...
... soul as host , and the growing joy of the news as it comes nearer . The imagery is as fused to the experience as the soul is to the news . Not all Traherne's poetry is like this , and less so Vaughan's . The poetry of Richard Crashaw ...
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... soul is growing into . It is the state of their souls that determines the form of North Wind perceived by different ... soul . We tend to be directed to Tom's and others ' actions as the causes of bodily change : the soul , or evil as ...
... soul is growing into . It is the state of their souls that determines the form of North Wind perceived by different ... soul . We tend to be directed to Tom's and others ' actions as the causes of bodily change : the soul , or evil as ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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