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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... Poets ix 1 12 42 50 73 2 2 2 2 × × 21 93 8 Milton : Paradise Lost 102 9 Bunyan : The Pilgrim's Progress 115 10 Swedenborg : Heaven and Hell 131 11 Blake : The Little Black Boy ' and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 144 12 Modern ...
... Poets ix 1 12 42 50 73 2 2 2 2 × × 21 93 8 Milton : Paradise Lost 102 9 Bunyan : The Pilgrim's Progress 115 10 Swedenborg : Heaven and Hell 131 11 Blake : The Little Black Boy ' and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 144 12 Modern ...
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... fantastic fictions and pagan fables in Gerusalemme Liberata to embody divine truths , for ' a Christian Poet , whose Religion little needs the aid of Invention , hath less occasion to imitate such Fables ' ; and 2 Christian Fantasy.
... fantastic fictions and pagan fables in Gerusalemme Liberata to embody divine truths , for ' a Christian Poet , whose Religion little needs the aid of Invention , hath less occasion to imitate such Fables ' ; and 2 Christian Fantasy.
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... poets and Kingsley seem to stand alone , and the first two of these owe much to the Bible , as do all the others . We may then speak of a certain sense of ' genre ' in these writers : they know those with whom they have most kinship ...
... poets and Kingsley seem to stand alone , and the first two of these owe much to the Bible , as do all the others . We may then speak of a certain sense of ' genre ' in these writers : they know those with whom they have most kinship ...
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... poet employs figurative modes of expression for the sake of visible representation . But Holy Scripture employs images and parables because it is needful and profitable.'13 The imagination is often attacked as free and self- indulgent ...
... poet employs figurative modes of expression for the sake of visible representation . But Holy Scripture employs images and parables because it is needful and profitable.'13 The imagination is often attacked as free and self- indulgent ...
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... poet of Christian culture : he knows the enormous potency of fable , of simply telling a story in the furtherance of a Christian purpose . Beyond that , he knows the power of invention , of the imagination , as few before him . So he ...
... poet of Christian culture : he knows the enormous potency of fable , of simply telling a story in the furtherance of a Christian purpose . Beyond that , he knows the power of invention , of the imagination , as few before him . So he ...
Contents
12 | |
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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allegory angels Anodos Beatrice become Bible biblical Blake Bunyan C. S. Lewis Cambridge century character Charles Williams Christ Christian fantasy Church Commedia creation Dante Dante's death described desire devil divine dragon Duessa earth eternal evil fact Faerie Queene Fairy Land faith fantastic worlds Faustus Faustus's feel figure further George MacDonald God's Grail Heaven and Hell Holy human idea imagery imagination invented J. R. R. Tolkien journey Kingsley Kingsley's lady Lewis's Lilith Lion literary literature London Manlove Medieval Mephostophilis Milton mind Modern Fantasy moral mystic myth narrative nature North Wind novel Paradise Lost pattern Pearl Perelandra Phantastes picture Pilgrim's Progress planet play poem poet portrays Princess and Curdie Purgatory realise reality Redcrosse Satan science fiction seems seen sense Shardik significance soul Spenser spiritual story supernatural Swedenborg Tamburlaine tells theology things Tolkien true truth University Press Victorian vision Water-Babies whole writers