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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But by introducing the water - babies earlier in the look , and by inserting a fairy , however well disguised , into the Yorkshire content , Kingsley has gone near to presenting the very kind of supernatural action he found impossible ...
But by introducing the water - babies earlier in the look , and by inserting a fairy , however well disguised , into the Yorkshire content , Kingsley has gone near to presenting the very kind of supernatural action he found impossible ...
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Look ! Look ! What do I remind you of ? '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 .
Look ! Look ! What do I remind you of ? '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 .
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If we look back at our account of modern Christian fantasy , it will be seen that the issue in such fantasy has been how to relate the old ' supernatural ' to a world of much greater change and complexity than has hitherto existed .
If we look back at our account of modern Christian fantasy , it will be seen that the issue in such fantasy has been how to relate the old ' supernatural ' to a world of much greater change and complexity than has hitherto existed .
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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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