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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contrast to Dante , pictures not a graded but a flat and continental hell , in which the fire and ice seem as much geographical as spiritual : there is a burning lake and barren land , which suggests a volcanic region , 8 and the ...
contrast to Dante , pictures not a graded but a flat and continental hell , in which the fire and ice seem as much geographical as spiritual : there is a burning lake and barren land , which suggests a volcanic region , 8 and the ...
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This approach we again find in Perelandra , especially in the way that anything that cannot be seen clearly at once has its vagueness later removed as when , seen closer to , the Fixed Land , which previously from afar seemed ' a single ...
This approach we again find in Perelandra , especially in the way that anything that cannot be seen clearly at once has its vagueness later removed as when , seen closer to , the Fixed Land , which previously from afar seemed ' a single ...
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It thrust itself up so that the land on either side sloped downwards from it ; and then up farther still and shouldered half the landscape out of sight beyond its ridge ; and became a huge greeny - gold hog's back of water hanging in ...
It thrust itself up so that the land on either side sloped downwards from it ; and then up farther still and shouldered half the landscape out of sight beyond its ridge ; and became a huge greeny - gold hog's back of water hanging in ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The French Queste del Saint Graal 122 | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the Present |
| Author | Colin Nicholas Manlove |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0333558901, 9780333558904 |
| Length | 356 pages |
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