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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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 to show , to make us feel , that God is present ...
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 to show , to make us feel , that God is present ...
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17 C. S. Lewis Lewis owed much in his fantasy to both George MacDonald and Charles Williams ( which gives some idea of how much of a small modern group these writers make ) . His debt to MacDonald was not just literary : his first ...
17 C. S. Lewis Lewis owed much in his fantasy to both George MacDonald and Charles Williams ( which gives some idea of how much of a small modern group these writers make ) . His debt to MacDonald was not just literary : his first ...
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MacDonald , ' The Fantastic Imagination ' , A Dish of Orts , p . 321 . CHAPTER 13 GEORGE MACDONALD'S FAIRY TALES 1. George MacDonald , The Princess and Curdie , 2nd edn ( London : Chatto and Windus , 1888 ) p . 46 . 2 .
MacDonald , ' The Fantastic Imagination ' , A Dish of Orts , p . 321 . CHAPTER 13 GEORGE MACDONALD'S FAIRY TALES 1. George MacDonald , The Princess and Curdie , 2nd edn ( London : Chatto and Windus , 1888 ) p . 46 . 2 .
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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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