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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... universe they portray is an ultimately bounded and circular one : and that sense of a bounded universe is , more and less , behind all Christian fantasy . It is concomitant with the dialectic of the imagination , at once expansive and ...
... universe they portray is an ultimately bounded and circular one : and that sense of a bounded universe is , more and less , behind all Christian fantasy . It is concomitant with the dialectic of the imagination , at once expansive and ...
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... universe . In each case they are helped by a form of angel : in the first book by three shape- changing old women ... universe , is seen as a way of finding out about God . The very choice of apparently insig- nificant children as ...
... universe . In each case they are helped by a form of angel : in the first book by three shape- changing old women ... universe , is seen as a way of finding out about God . The very choice of apparently insig- nificant children as ...
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... universe which is . ' Anderson , Dante the Maker , pp . 284–6 , 384 , on numerology in the Commedia ; Cosmo , Handbook , p . 165 , declares that ' the very structure of the work is modelled on the order of the universe ' . This is ...
... universe which is . ' Anderson , Dante the Maker , pp . 284–6 , 384 , on numerology in the Commedia ; Cosmo , Handbook , p . 165 , declares that ' the very structure of the work is modelled on the order of the universe ' . This is ...
Contents
The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
Copyright | |
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