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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Thus he at once gives and refuses us a determinate view of heaven ; and also makes heaven grow and the world diminish , a proper placing of significance . For us here the main point is Milton's interest in ' the outside ' , where half ...
Thus he at once gives and refuses us a determinate view of heaven ; and also makes heaven grow and the world diminish , a proper placing of significance . For us here the main point is Milton's interest in ' the outside ' , where half ...
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The opening poem of this work is aggressively dialectical and cyclic , beginning and ending , ' Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden'd air ; / Hungry clouds swag on the deep ' . It tells of a meek and just man who once kept ...
The opening poem of this work is aggressively dialectical and cyclic , beginning and ending , ' Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden'd air ; / Hungry clouds swag on the deep ' . It tells of a meek and just man who once kept ...
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In The Place of the Lion Anthony Durrant is transfigured at the end to Adam , so that he may enter Eden once more to name the beasts , and in naming them make the world safe once more from the dangerous incursions of the untamed ...
In The Place of the Lion Anthony Durrant is transfigured at the end to Adam , so that he may enter Eden once more to name the beasts , and in naming them make the world safe once more from the dangerous incursions of the untamed ...
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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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