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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HOW comes it then that thou art out of hell ? ... of hell as separation from God.5 At least , he does not understand it yet : he has come very close to realising and experiencing this truth by the time of his last , agonised soliloquy .
HOW comes it then that thou art out of hell ? ... of hell as separation from God.5 At least , he does not understand it yet : he has come very close to realising and experiencing this truth by the time of his last , agonised soliloquy .
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The news comes from a far country , but the heart feels kinship with it as with nothing else . The news is sudden , like all news , as first described ; then we learn that it is recurrent – ' ' Twas wont ' , " Twould ' : such news is ...
The news comes from a far country , but the heart feels kinship with it as with nothing else . The news is sudden , like all news , as first described ; then we learn that it is recurrent – ' ' Twas wont ' , " Twould ' : such news is ...
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( It is not evidently Christ , for He comes later , when Christian loses his burden of sin . ) No distinction is made between Formalist and Hypocrisy , or between the wood and the field in which each of them meets his doom ( and indeed ...
( It is not evidently Christ , for He comes later , when Christian loses his burden of sin . ) No distinction is made between Formalist and Hypocrisy , or between the wood and the field in which each of them meets his doom ( and indeed ...
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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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