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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... truth ' is almost as problematic a word for the Christian as ' fantasy ' , and that , where the one is not settled ... truths , for ' a Christian Poet , whose Religion little needs the aid of Invention , hath less occasion to imitate ...
... truth ' is almost as problematic a word for the Christian as ' fantasy ' , and that , where the one is not settled ... truths , for ' a Christian Poet , whose Religion little needs the aid of Invention , hath less occasion to imitate ...
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... truth . God's imagery is often wholly different from ours , or may be quite other from our capacity to represent it except through fantastical imagery : therefore , if He speaks to men , they can only represent His truth through images ...
... truth . God's imagery is often wholly different from ours , or may be quite other from our capacity to represent it except through fantastical imagery : therefore , if He speaks to men , they can only represent His truth through images ...
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... truth present in Virgil's Fourth Eclogue . The believed truth of their fantastic worlds is an issue with many of the writers we shall consider . The dream given to the mortal man in Pearl is a ' veray avysyoun ' , at the same time as it ...
... truth present in Virgil's Fourth Eclogue . The believed truth of their fantastic worlds is an issue with many of the writers we shall consider . The dream given to the mortal man in Pearl is a ' veray avysyoun ' , at the same time as it ...
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... truths they embody ? or what with his assertion that they were a vision given to Dante direct by God ? Nevertheless it remains the case that , whatever truth a fantasy may contain , it is only an image of the real . To Dante's image of ...
... truths they embody ? or what with his assertion that they were a vision given to Dante direct by God ? Nevertheless it remains the case that , whatever truth a fantasy may contain , it is only an image of the real . To Dante's image of ...
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... truth in his retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth , Till We Have Faces ( 1956 ) , is still more deeply hidden . There is a certain amount of mutual indebtedness : Dante's Commedia may be a source for the Middle English Pearl , and ...
... truth in his retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth , Till We Have Faces ( 1956 ) , is still more deeply hidden . There is a certain amount of mutual indebtedness : Dante's Commedia may be a source for the Middle English Pearl , and ...
Contents
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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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