Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentUniversity of Notre Dame Press, 1992 - 356 páginas 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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... Further , as the devils say who with their pitchforks keep them from surfacing , they are hidden in the pitch because their dealings were secret ( xx1.52–4 ) . Of the pitch we may say , with Dorothy L. Sayers in her gloss , that ' Money ...
... Further , as the devils say who with their pitchforks keep them from surfacing , they are hidden in the pitch because their dealings were secret ( xx1.52–4 ) . Of the pitch we may say , with Dorothy L. Sayers in her gloss , that ' Money ...
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... Further , while the journey of the imagination is thus serial , the final vision serves to remind us that , however obfuscated , divine vision has been at the root of the creation of the poem from the outset , from the first moment ...
... Further , while the journey of the imagination is thus serial , the final vision serves to remind us that , however obfuscated , divine vision has been at the root of the creation of the poem from the outset , from the first moment ...
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... Further , the emphasis in Pilgrim's Progress , as we shall see , is on doing and action rather than contemplation : the narrative and the ethic behind it are against the stillness that could be argued to be required for the perception ...
... Further , the emphasis in Pilgrim's Progress , as we shall see , is on doing and action rather than contemplation : the narrative and the ethic behind it are against the stillness that could be argued to be required for the perception ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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