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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While this mode of description gives Pilgrim's Progress considerable power , it does reduce its effect as allegory . It becomes hard to translate physical into spiritual travelling where the journey and experience of it are realised in ...
While this mode of description gives Pilgrim's Progress considerable power , it does reduce its effect as allegory . It becomes hard to translate physical into spiritual travelling where the journey and experience of it are realised in ...
Page 127
The breadth of Bunyan's appeal may be enormously increased by this , but at the expense of individuality and subtlety in the allegory . This established , other aspects of the narrative begin to fall into place .
The breadth of Bunyan's appeal may be enormously increased by this , but at the expense of individuality and subtlety in the allegory . This established , other aspects of the narrative begin to fall into place .
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Throughout , the direct naming of the allegorical figures , as Pliable , Faithful , Talkative , By - ends or ... for it makes Bunyan something of a Christian Romantic : in this sense he is a writer more of fantasy than of allegory .
Throughout , the direct naming of the allegorical figures , as Pliable , Faithful , Talkative , By - ends or ... for it makes Bunyan something of a Christian Romantic : in this sense he is a writer more of fantasy than of allegory .
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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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