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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... 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 controlled , that the universe in Christian fantasy should be of such a ...
... 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 controlled , that the universe in Christian fantasy should be of such a ...
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... sense ' literally intended ' : it is too specific to be simply allegorised . Since he considerably reworked the story , the author of the Queste could not entirely have believed it , but he would have believed that it was the sort of ...
... sense ' literally intended ' : it is too specific to be simply allegorised . Since he considerably reworked the story , the author of the Queste could not entirely have believed it , but he would have believed that it was the sort of ...
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... sense affords you naught ? A light moves you which takes form in heaven , of itself , or by a will that downwards guides it . ( Purg . xvII.13-18 ) Thus this invention is not a self - governing adventurer , nor is it insulated from ...
... sense affords you naught ? A light moves you which takes form in heaven , of itself , or by a will that downwards guides it . ( Purg . xvII.13-18 ) Thus this invention is not a self - governing adventurer , nor is it insulated from ...
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... senses while they are inside'.19 Tolkien wants us imaginatively to enter and live in Middle - earth ; and Mervyn Peake puts us so fully into his world of Gormenghast that we ... sense of the overall form of each of Hell 28 Christian Fantasy.
... senses while they are inside'.19 Tolkien wants us imaginatively to enter and live in Middle - earth ; and Mervyn Peake puts us so fully into his world of Gormenghast that we ... sense of the overall form of each of Hell 28 Christian Fantasy.
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... sense selfhood matters , mere self is to be transcended . The transcendence , the burning - out , of the egoistic self is enjoined by what we see in Hell , and per- formed in Purgatory . Thereafter , with Purgatory come to a point , but ...
... sense selfhood matters , mere self is to be transcended . The transcendence , the burning - out , of the egoistic self is enjoined by what we see in Hell , and per- formed in Purgatory . Thereafter , with Purgatory come to a point , but ...
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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