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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Spenser's Fairy Land is an image of a reality , the human soul . Marlowe's Faustus , who wants to have divine powers and be a god , arguably enacts at a human level the ' aspiring insolence ' of Lucifer , for which he was thrown from ...
Spenser's Fairy Land is an image of a reality , the human soul . Marlowe's Faustus , who wants to have divine powers and be a god , arguably enacts at a human level the ' aspiring insolence ' of Lucifer , for which he was thrown from ...
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He knew his Hell , Purgatory and Heaven to be fictions at the same time as he believed in their reality ; 2 and his readers are often persuaded of their reality even while knowing them to be fiction . How many of us , when reading ...
He knew his Hell , Purgatory and Heaven to be fictions at the same time as he believed in their reality ; 2 and his readers are often persuaded of their reality even while knowing them to be fiction . How many of us , when reading ...
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For him the displacement of one level of reading reality by another is the key , for in that sudden . enlargement of consciousness , that sense of ' fallings from us , vanishings ' , 20 he found one form of the experience of otherness .
For him the displacement of one level of reading reality by another is the key , for in that sudden . enlargement of consciousness , that sense of ' fallings from us , vanishings ' , 20 he found one form of the experience of otherness .
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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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