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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It is a paradox that Bunyan should have increased the imagin- ative power of his work over its significance precisely by the means that he might have expected to restrict the licence of the imagin- ation . Puritan thinkers before him ...
It is a paradox that Bunyan should have increased the imagin- ative power of his work over its significance precisely by the means that he might have expected to restrict the licence of the imagin- ation . Puritan thinkers before him ...
Page 169
His artistic analogies are drawn from music : ' A genuine work of art must mean many things ; the truer its art , the more ... We all know that a sonata means something ; and where there is the faculty of talking with suitable vagueness ...
His artistic analogies are drawn from music : ' A genuine work of art must mean many things ; the truer its art , the more ... We all know that a sonata means something ; and where there is the faculty of talking with suitable vagueness ...
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His procedure is to describe allegorically and by means of an integument what the human spirit does and endures while temporarily placed in the human body .... The integu- ment is a type of exposition which wraps the apprehension of ...
His procedure is to describe allegorically and by means of an integument what the human spirit does and endures while temporarily placed in the human body .... The integu- ment is a type of exposition which wraps the apprehension of ...
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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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