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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4 The Middle English Pearl Strictly speaking Pearl ( 1375–95 ) is not a narrative but a visionary and consolatory episode , 1 in which a man , lamenting the loss of a precious pearl - in part perhaps his daughter - is granted a vision ...
4 The Middle English Pearl Strictly speaking Pearl ( 1375–95 ) is not a narrative but a visionary and consolatory episode , 1 in which a man , lamenting the loss of a precious pearl - in part perhaps his daughter - is granted a vision ...
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The difference comes partly from the fact that Pearl's very subject is a precious stone or pearl ; and that part of its theme concerns the nature of true preciousness . From the outset the dreamer speaks of his loss in terms of a ...
The difference comes partly from the fact that Pearl's very subject is a precious stone or pearl ; and that part of its theme concerns the nature of true preciousness . From the outset the dreamer speaks of his loss in terms of a ...
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CHAPTER 4 THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PEARL 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . On the backgrounds of the poem as ' Vision of the Other World ' and ' Consolatio ' , respectively , see Thomas C. Niemann , ' Pearl and the Christian Other World ' ...
CHAPTER 4 THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PEARL 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . On the backgrounds of the poem as ' Vision of the Other World ' and ' Consolatio ' , respectively , see Thomas C. Niemann , ' Pearl and the Christian Other World ' ...
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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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