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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Page 61
... seem at variance with his meaning . It seems so clear , so much to answer to the character of the poem , that this reading seems the ' right ' one . And yet why should Spenser align his account of holiness to a form of literary ...
... seem at variance with his meaning . It seems so clear , so much to answer to the character of the poem , that this reading seems the ' right ' one . And yet why should Spenser align his account of holiness to a form of literary ...
Page 95
... seems fundamentally dialectical : it seems to play one kind of vision against another . Thus the vastness of eternity and of the infinity of souls , pouring across line ends , collecting all creation in its flow , dwindles back to ' me ...
... seems fundamentally dialectical : it seems to play one kind of vision against another . Thus the vastness of eternity and of the infinity of souls , pouring across line ends , collecting all creation in its flow , dwindles back to ' me ...
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... seems to lie in ceaseless movement between different positions , symbolised in the mobility , deceptiveness and ground - removing wit of his devils . God exists and does not ; Jesus is real and ' ordinary ' ; the devils are moral and ...
... seems to lie in ceaseless movement between different positions , symbolised in the mobility , deceptiveness and ground - removing wit of his devils . God exists and does not ; Jesus is real and ' ordinary ' ; the devils are moral and ...
Contents
The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
Copyright | |
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