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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... the complex ' pattern of the glory ' in the everyday world ; in the fantasies of C. S. Lewis we are invited to delight in the invented worlds of his Mars , Venus or Narnia as expressions of divine creative power , all playing their ...
... the complex ' pattern of the glory ' in the everyday world ; in the fantasies of C. S. Lewis we are invited to delight in the invented worlds of his Mars , Venus or Narnia as expressions of divine creative power , all playing their ...
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Not only are Williams ' novels filled with characters or incidental events which can take other and ' larger ' being ; they are also sequences of pattern and rule : thus story and ' history ' are made significant ( as Williams made a ...
Not only are Williams ' novels filled with characters or incidental events which can take other and ' larger ' being ; they are also sequences of pattern and rule : thus story and ' history ' are made significant ( as Williams made a ...
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Among the themes explored is the relation of poetry to culture and order , and the extent to which its sympathies , structures and exchanges may be said to mirror the pattern of divine glory : this is why Williams has the spiritually ...
Among the themes explored is the relation of poetry to culture and order , and the extent to which its sympathies , structures and exchanges may be said to mirror the pattern of divine glory : this is why Williams has the spiritually ...
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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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