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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For , divided from her for the next eight cantos , he is continually overcome . After the defeat of Error , the path leads Una and Redcrosse , as it did not before , out of the wood . We may therefore call this illusion an illusion of ...
For , divided from her for the next eight cantos , he is continually overcome . After the defeat of Error , the path leads Una and Redcrosse , as it did not before , out of the wood . We may therefore call this illusion an illusion of ...
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By contrast Williams , Lewis and Tolkien give us structured universes in their fantasy , whether the ' diagram of glory ' that Williams continually celebrates , or the highly wrought cosmic plan in Lewis , in which ' all is pattern ' ...
By contrast Williams , Lewis and Tolkien give us structured universes in their fantasy , whether the ' diagram of glory ' that Williams continually celebrates , or the highly wrought cosmic plan in Lewis , in which ' all is pattern ' ...
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'35 By that means he continually displaces our appetite for the ' other ' towards a hunger for the Wholly Other . A sense of division seems to underlie much of Lewis's work . The Earth , ' a jungle of filth and imbecility ' , is cut off ...
'35 By that means he continually displaces our appetite for the ' other ' towards a hunger for the Wholly Other . A sense of division seems to underlie much of Lewis's work . The Earth , ' a jungle of filth and imbecility ' , is cut off ...
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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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