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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Our concern for much of this book will be with the treatment of the imagination in Christian fantasy . ... others who contrast the divine and human imaginations to the disfavour of the latter , others still who let their imagination ...
Our concern for much of this book will be with the treatment of the imagination in Christian fantasy . ... others who contrast the divine and human imaginations to the disfavour of the latter , others still who let their imagination ...
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If we take these two points first , that all the hideous creatures of the book are in part at least the creation of Spenser's imagination ; and , second , that the landscape of the book is that of the imagination itself , which can ...
If we take these two points first , that all the hideous creatures of the book are in part at least the creation of Spenser's imagination ; and , second , that the landscape of the book is that of the imagination itself , which can ...
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For MacDonald's ' answer ' to some of the issues raised by Blake was to put God into the imagination . ' God sits in that chamber of our being in which the candle of our consciousness goes out in darkness , and sends forth from thence ...
For MacDonald's ' answer ' to some of the issues raised by Blake was to put God into the imagination . ' God sits in that chamber of our being in which the candle of our consciousness goes out in darkness , and sends forth from thence ...
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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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