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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... spiritual perception that sees how all phenomena , even in a secular - seeming romance , bespeak the things of God . Indeed the author's very choice of Arthurian romance as his medium may in great part have been to show this ; certainly ...
... spiritual perception that sees how all phenomena , even in a secular - seeming romance , bespeak the things of God . Indeed the author's very choice of Arthurian romance as his medium may in great part have been to show this ; certainly ...
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... spiritual , not material value.14 Arguably the landscapes of the poem take the form that they do because of this theme . Because the jeweller is blinded by the material value of things , the landscape during his approach to the girl ...
... spiritual , not material value.14 Arguably the landscapes of the poem take the form that they do because of this theme . Because the jeweller is blinded by the material value of things , the landscape during his approach to the girl ...
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... spiritual conditions of reality . If we compare Kingsley's presen- tation of the idea with that of MacDonald in his fantasy , we find that the latter has set us in a medium so evidently that of the spirit under the aegis of the divine ...
... spiritual conditions of reality . If we compare Kingsley's presen- tation of the idea with that of MacDonald in his fantasy , we find that the latter has set us in a medium so evidently that of the spirit under the aegis of the divine ...
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The Faerie Queene Book I | 6 |
The Metaphysical Poets | 94 |
Paradise Lost | 111 |
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