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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He meets Lucifera in the form that he does because his mind is full of bright and evil shapes through his worldliness . At this level , this is all his imagination can perceive : it is only when his spirit has been healed in the House ...
He meets Lucifera in the form that he does because his mind is full of bright and evil shapes through his worldliness . At this level , this is all his imagination can perceive : it is only when his spirit has been healed in the House ...
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The true fairytale is , to my mind , very like the sonata . We all know that a sonata means something ; and where there is the faculty of talking with suitable vagueness , and choosing metaphor sufficiently loose , mind may approach ...
The true fairytale is , to my mind , very like the sonata . We all know that a sonata means something ; and where there is the faculty of talking with suitable vagueness , and choosing metaphor sufficiently loose , mind may approach ...
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The imagined realms of Phantastes and Lilith may be ' untrue ' by themselves , but they are also pictures of the unconscious mind which we are all encouraged to enter . The actual created worlds of Charles Williams ' The Place of the ...
The imagined realms of Phantastes and Lilith may be ' untrue ' by themselves , but they are also pictures of the unconscious mind which we are all encouraged to enter . The actual created worlds of Charles Williams ' The Place of the ...
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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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