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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Page 57
... narrative sequence , and he may thus remove from the reader the kind of narrative excitement which might otherwise blind him to the spiritual dimension of the work . Thus we do not find much suspense or anticipation of events in the ...
... narrative sequence , and he may thus remove from the reader the kind of narrative excitement which might otherwise blind him to the spiritual dimension of the work . Thus we do not find much suspense or anticipation of events in the ...
Page 127
... narrative the kinds of consideration which ought to have been carried by the story as allegory , but now have to be presented directly . ( The same might be said of certain of the marginal insertions also.17 ) The clash between narrative ...
... narrative the kinds of consideration which ought to have been carried by the story as allegory , but now have to be presented directly . ( The same might be said of certain of the marginal insertions also.17 ) The clash between narrative ...
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... narrative , sees that narrative only as subserving a Christian allegory of the pilgrimage of a human soul through the world , from an infantine confinement to the body , via a lapse into concupiscence ( Dido ) and a descent into ...
... narrative , sees that narrative only as subserving a Christian allegory of the pilgrimage of a human soul through the world , from an infantine confinement to the body , via a lapse into concupiscence ( Dido ) and a descent into ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
Copyright | |
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