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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( 1983 ) , repr . in Dante : The Poetics of Conversion ( Cambridge , Mass : Harvard University Press , 1986 ) pp . 258–71 . CHAPTER 4 THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PEARL 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . On the backgrounds of the poem as ' Vision of ...
( 1983 ) , repr . in Dante : The Poetics of Conversion ( Cambridge , Mass : Harvard University Press , 1986 ) pp . 258–71 . CHAPTER 4 THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PEARL 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . On the backgrounds of the poem as ' Vision of ...
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James Nohrnberg , The Analogy of ' The Faerie Queene ' ( Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press , 1976 ) pp . 103–5 , 119–30 , puts a similar view much more fully . Isabel G. MacCaffrey , Spenser's Allegory : The Anatomy of ...
James Nohrnberg , The Analogy of ' The Faerie Queene ' ( Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press , 1976 ) pp . 103–5 , 119–30 , puts a similar view much more fully . Isabel G. MacCaffrey , Spenser's Allegory : The Anatomy of ...
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Harvard University Press , 1963 ) , but He stayed very much in the hearts of millions of ordinary churchgoers : see Owen Chadwick , A History of the Victorian Church , 2 vols , п : 1860–1901 , rev . edn ( London : A & C. Black ...
Harvard University Press , 1963 ) , but He stayed very much in the hearts of millions of ordinary churchgoers : see Owen Chadwick , A History of the Victorian Church , 2 vols , п : 1860–1901 , rev . edn ( London : A & C. Black ...
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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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