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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8 Milton : Paradise Lost Milton's Paradise Lost ( 1667 , 1674 ) is a late representative of a long tradition of biblical epic , beginning with Gaius Juvencus's Evangeliorum libri quatuor of around AD 330 and ending with Friedrich ...
8 Milton : Paradise Lost Milton's Paradise Lost ( 1667 , 1674 ) is a late representative of a long tradition of biblical epic , beginning with Gaius Juvencus's Evangeliorum libri quatuor of around AD 330 and ending with Friedrich ...
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opened from beneath , Just o'er the blissful seat of Paradise , A passage down to the earth , a passage wide . ( III.526-8 ) He then ' Down right into the world's first region throws / His flight precipitant ' ( 11. 562-3 ) .
opened from beneath , Just o'er the blissful seat of Paradise , A passage down to the earth , a passage wide . ( III.526-8 ) He then ' Down right into the world's first region throws / His flight precipitant ' ( 11. 562-3 ) .
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... 105 Miller , Walter M. Jr , A Canticle for Leibowitz , 282 , 284–5 ; Christian pattern in cyclic history of , 284-5 ; dual view of science as wonder and curse , 285 Milton , John , on vatic inspiration , 318-19n.12 ; Paradise Lost ...
... 105 Miller , Walter M. Jr , A Canticle for Leibowitz , 282 , 284–5 ; Christian pattern in cyclic history of , 284-5 ; dual view of science as wonder and curse , 285 Milton , John , on vatic inspiration , 318-19n.12 ; Paradise Lost ...
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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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