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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... spiritual perception that sees how all phenomena , even in a secular - seeming romance , bespeak the things of God . Indeed the author's very choice of Arthurian romance as his medium may in great part have been to show this ; certainly ...
... spiritual perception that sees how all phenomena , even in a secular - seeming romance , bespeak the things of God . Indeed the author's very choice of Arthurian romance as his medium may in great part have been to show this ; certainly ...
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... 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 things , the landscape during his approach to the girl ...
... 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 things , the landscape during his approach to the girl ...
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... spiritual conditions of reality . If we compare Kingsley's presen- tation of the idea with that of MacDonald in his fantasy , we find that the latter has set us in a medium so evidently that of the spirit under the aegis of the divine ...
... spiritual conditions of reality . If we compare Kingsley's presen- tation of the idea with that of MacDonald in his fantasy , we find that the latter has set us in a medium so evidently that of the spirit under the aegis of the divine ...
Contents
The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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