Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentUniversity of Notre Dame Press, 1992 - 356 من الصفحات This is the first account of invented stories of the Christian supernatural, of fantasies that depict imagined forms of heaven or hell, angel or devil, world and creator; it considers their growth and changes from the time of Dante to the present day. Relatively infrequent, such works nevertheless for centuries represented some of the highest aspirations of art. Works considered here include the French Queste del Saint Graal, Dante's Commedia, the Middle English Pearl, the first book of Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell and poems by Blake; and, from the post-Romantic and increasingly less 'Christian' period, the fantasies of George MacDonald, Charles Kingsley, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis and many others. In the development of these works, a primary issue is found to be the fantasy-making imagination itself, at first seen as a potential obstacle to plain Christian purpose, but more recently given freer rein in the new aim of demonstrating God's existence in a more secular world. The picture that emerges is of a literary mode which becomes more fictive and indirect in its presentation of Christian vision. |
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... reason ' and ' imagination ' - be energetically in tension with one another . Thus what he is concerned to do is not , for example , to recover the primitive form of faith , or adherence to any image , Christian or otherwise , but to ...
... reason ' and ' imagination ' - be energetically in tension with one another . Thus what he is concerned to do is not , for example , to recover the primitive form of faith , or adherence to any image , Christian or otherwise , but to ...
الصفحة 149
... reason in charge of the passions - more simply , a heaven of the ' respectable ' . Blake's poem is to be a picture of the passions breaking out . ' Those who restrain desire , do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained ; and ...
... reason in charge of the passions - more simply , a heaven of the ' respectable ' . Blake's poem is to be a picture of the passions breaking out . ' Those who restrain desire , do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained ; and ...
الصفحة 152
... reason is of a piece with energy , being its bound or outer circumference ; and yet prolific energy and devouring reason are elsewhere not to be reconciled . Amid the proverbs on the gratification of one's own energies appears ' The ...
... reason is of a piece with energy , being its bound or outer circumference ; and yet prolific energy and devouring reason are elsewhere not to be reconciled . Amid the proverbs on the gratification of one's own energies appears ' The ...
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The Faerie Queene Book I | 6 |
The Metaphysical Poets | 94 |
Paradise Lost | 111 |
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