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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But now the stones are evidently symbolic : they are of spiritual , not material value.14 Arguably the landscapes of the poem take the form that they do because of this theme . Because the jeweller is blinded by the material value of ...
But now the stones are evidently symbolic : they are of spiritual , not material value.14 Arguably the landscapes of the poem take the form that they do because of this theme . Because the jeweller is blinded by the material value of ...
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In this way he enacts in miniature the tension portrayed in the poem . More largely , we may notice how much the poem as a whole is set within caves and interiors , even while it recommends the explosion outwards of energy and ...
In this way he enacts in miniature the tension portrayed in the poem . More largely , we may notice how much the poem as a whole is set within caves and interiors , even while it recommends the explosion outwards of energy and ...
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it mingles energetic vision , of the sort that we see in the opening poem , with direct and explicit discourse : in this way the first five chambers of the printing - house of hell oscillate with the sixth , that which transforms fiery ...
it mingles energetic vision , of the sort that we see in the opening poem , with direct and explicit discourse : in this way the first five chambers of the printing - house of hell oscillate with the sixth , that which transforms fiery ...
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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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