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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132 ) 10 This certainly has the effect of evacuating the story of its literal context . No action or object is left merely itself : a tent is much more than a tent . Indeed it is mortal blindness to all but the literal or physical level ...
132 ) 10 This certainly has the effect of evacuating the story of its literal context . No action or object is left merely itself : a tent is much more than a tent . Indeed it is mortal blindness to all but the literal or physical level ...
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Certainly his vision of her and her place is inadequate : even near the end he still thinks to take her back home with him . But such severance of earth from heaven comes not just from him but from the pearl also .
Certainly his vision of her and her place is inadequate : even near the end he still thinks to take her back home with him . But such severance of earth from heaven comes not just from him but from the pearl also .
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And certainly Mephostophilis did not claim responsibility for the earlier distortion of texts from logic by Faustus , 12 or his contemptuous citation from law ( 1.1.34-8 , 55-63 ) . Thus what seems to be a consideration is not really a ...
And certainly Mephostophilis did not claim responsibility for the earlier distortion of texts from logic by Faustus , 12 or his contemptuous citation from law ( 1.1.34-8 , 55-63 ) . Thus what seems to be a consideration is not really a ...
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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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