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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There is much less of this kind of physical detail in the Purgatorio . For one thing , we see only the human form : no monsters here . For another , topography is relatively uniform .
There is much less of this kind of physical detail in the Purgatorio . For one thing , we see only the human form : no monsters here . For another , topography is relatively uniform .
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This holds good even though the reality that MacDonald presents is that of the inner world of the mind , and Kingsley's that of the physical world . The tangle of mental imagery and potential error in MacDonald's fantastic worlds is no ...
This holds good even though the reality that MacDonald presents is that of the inner world of the mind , and Kingsley's that of the physical world . The tangle of mental imagery and potential error in MacDonald's fantastic worlds is no ...
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Kingsley , however , who was a committed naturalist all his life , and author of several books on marine biology and geology , felt that , in investigating the physical forms of nature and the material laws which governed it , man was ...
Kingsley , however , who was a committed naturalist all his life , and author of several books on marine biology and geology , felt that , in investigating the physical forms of nature and the material laws which governed it , man was ...
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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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