Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentMacmillan, 1992 - 356 páginas This 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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... journey towards a terminal point , here of very Heaven itself . At the same time we are aware of all sorts of other patterns : of the fact that Dante's whole journey takes place in Easter week of 1300 , his time in Hell representing the ...
... journey towards a terminal point , here of very Heaven itself . At the same time we are aware of all sorts of other patterns : of the fact that Dante's whole journey takes place in Easter week of 1300 , his time in Hell representing the ...
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... journey is a vision of God in which the imagination is lost - and yet found , in that only its operations over the whole journey of the poem have led us to Him.23 Further , while the journey of the imagination is thus serial , the final ...
... journey is a vision of God in which the imagination is lost - and yet found , in that only its operations over the whole journey of the poem have led us to Him.23 Further , while the journey of the imagination is thus serial , the final ...
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... journey , the path and the goal works against the detailed effectiveness of the allegory . For instance , because of the image of the journey , we naturally tend to think of the movement as one to greater and greater trials . However ...
... journey , the path and the goal works against the detailed effectiveness of the allegory . For instance , because of the image of the journey , we naturally tend to think of the movement as one to greater and greater trials . However ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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