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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From 1200 to the Present Colin Nicholas Manlove. 13 George MacDonald's Fairy Tales What we shall see with MacDonald and Kingsley is something quite new in the development of Christian fantasy . We shall find both trying by literary means ...
From 1200 to the Present Colin Nicholas Manlove. 13 George MacDonald's Fairy Tales What we shall see with MacDonald and Kingsley is something quite new in the development of Christian fantasy . We shall find both trying by literary means ...
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... MacDonald's work and the character within it that he had a fictional George MacDonald take part in his The Great Divorce , meeting the narrator in a borderland of Heaven and discussing the nature of providence and damnation ; and in the ...
... MacDonald's work and the character within it that he had a fictional George MacDonald take part in his The Great Divorce , meeting the narrator in a borderland of Heaven and discussing the nature of providence and damnation ; and in the ...
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... MACDONALD'S FAIRY TALES 1. George MacDonald , The Princess and Curdie , 2nd edn ( London : Chatto and Windus , 1888 ) p . 46 . 2 . MacDonald , ' The Imagination ' , A Dish of Orts , Chiefly Papers on the Imagination , and on Shakspere ...
... MACDONALD'S FAIRY TALES 1. George MacDonald , The Princess and Curdie , 2nd edn ( London : Chatto and Windus , 1888 ) p . 46 . 2 . MacDonald , ' The Imagination ' , A Dish of Orts , Chiefly Papers on the Imagination , and on Shakspere ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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