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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Further , the emphasis in Pilgrim's Progress , as we shall see , is on doing and action rather than contemplation : the narrative and the ethic behind it are against the stillness that could be argued to be required for the perception ...
Further , the emphasis in Pilgrim's Progress , as we shall see , is on doing and action rather than contemplation : the narrative and the ethic behind it are against the stillness that could be argued to be required for the perception ...
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Further , it could be said that there is sometimes almost as much emphasis on protection of the land as of its people in modern fantasy , as in Tolkien or Ursula Le Guin . A further aspect of twentieth - century fantasy is its sense of ...
Further , it could be said that there is sometimes almost as much emphasis on protection of the land as of its people in modern fantasy , as in Tolkien or Ursula Le Guin . A further aspect of twentieth - century fantasy is its sense of ...
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... you need to go further afield : like a man moving his house further and further out into the country as the new building estates catch him up . Thus in Grimm's Märchen , stories told by peasants in wooded country , you need only ...
... you need to go further afield : like a man moving his house further and further out into the country as the new building estates catch him up . Thus in Grimm's Märchen , stories told by peasants in wooded country , you need only ...
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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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