Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentThis 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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... fairy lands , with kings , princesses and castles . Last , there is a whole range of shorter fairy tales , from the comic to the mystical . For MacDonald most of these would be different forms of the same fairy tale . In both Phantastes ...
... fairy lands , with kings , princesses and castles . Last , there is a whole range of shorter fairy tales , from the comic to the mystical . For MacDonald most of these would be different forms of the same fairy tale . In both Phantastes ...
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... Fairy Land in the first place , as he looks in the eyes of the fairy grandmother who comes to him : ' They filled me with an unknown longing . I remembered somehow that my mother died when I was a baby . I looked deeper and deeper ...
... Fairy Land in the first place , as he looks in the eyes of the fairy grandmother who comes to him : ' They filled me with an unknown longing . I remembered somehow that my mother died when I was a baby . I looked deeper and deeper ...
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... fairy tale , of which he considered The Lord of the Rings to be an example . This concept is outlined in his essay ' On Fairy - Stories ' ( 1939 ) , repr . in Tree and Leaf ( London : Allen and Unwin , 1964 ) pp . 60-3 . He believes ...
... fairy tale , of which he considered The Lord of the Rings to be an example . This concept is outlined in his essay ' On Fairy - Stories ' ( 1939 ) , repr . in Tree and Leaf ( London : Allen and Unwin , 1964 ) pp . 60-3 . He believes ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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