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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There may be some truth in that ; but we have also to remember that what Spenser is trying to do in The Faerie Queene , at least so far as his explicatory letter to Raleigh is concerned , is ' to fashion a gentleman or noble person in ...
There may be some truth in that ; but we have also to remember that what Spenser is trying to do in The Faerie Queene , at least so far as his explicatory letter to Raleigh is concerned , is ' to fashion a gentleman or noble person in ...
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With these images , the experience of a fantastic world by Lewis is one of awakened desire and loss . Lewis is not simply concerned with the portrayal of otherness or the desirable for their own sakes . He is determined that his readers ...
With these images , the experience of a fantastic world by Lewis is one of awakened desire and loss . Lewis is not simply concerned with the portrayal of otherness or the desirable for their own sakes . He is determined that his readers ...
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has moved away from presentation of Christian world- view , 286 ; more concerned with finding out than with moral teaching , 286 ; not concerned with humble or Christ - like figures , 286 ; Christian patterns commandeered for secular ...
has moved away from presentation of Christian world- view , 286 ; more concerned with finding out than with moral teaching , 286 ; not concerned with humble or Christ - like figures , 286 ; Christian patterns commandeered for secular ...
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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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