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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... Purgatory and Heaven for enjoyment and edification , but not with that quickening of fear and desire that must have beset his contemporaries as they read of worlds in whose ultimate reality they believed , and in which meetings are ...
... Purgatory and Heaven for enjoyment and edification , but not with that quickening of fear and desire that must have beset his contemporaries as they read of worlds in whose ultimate reality they believed , and in which meetings are ...
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... Purgatory and Heaven , meet devils , angels and even God himself . In Spenser , Bunyan and George MacDonald we travel into a Fairy Land of the soul which is imbued with the supernatural . Marlowe's Dr Faustus depicts a man who bargains ...
... Purgatory and Heaven , meet devils , angels and even God himself . In Spenser , Bunyan and George MacDonald we travel into a Fairy Land of the soul which is imbued with the supernatural . Marlowe's Dr Faustus depicts a man who bargains ...
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... 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 , have not felt that ...
... 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 , have not felt that ...
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... Purgatory , for instance : no one before had pictured it as a huge and many - tiered mountain in the midst of a vast ocean in the southern hemisphere ; 3 and in its creation Dante provided an answer to another , equally vexing problem ...
... Purgatory , for instance : no one before had pictured it as a huge and many - tiered mountain in the midst of a vast ocean in the southern hemisphere ; 3 and in its creation Dante provided an answer to another , equally vexing problem ...
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... Purgatory . ― While Dante's poem is supremely original , it is also written at the summit of the allegorical and symbolic tradition . Looking back from our more secular culture today , the ' solid ' features - the exciting narrative ...
... Purgatory . ― While Dante's poem is supremely original , it is also written at the summit of the allegorical and symbolic tradition . Looking back from our more secular culture today , the ' solid ' features - the exciting narrative ...
Contents
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21 | |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
The Faerie Queene Book I | 50 |
Dr Faustus | 73 |
The Metaphysical Poets | 94 |
42 | 107 |
The Pilgrims Progress | 115 |
Heaven and Hell | 131 |
The Little Black Boy and The Marriage | 144 |
Modern Christian Fantasy | 156 |
George MacDonalds Fairy Tales | 164 |
The WaterBabies | 330 |
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