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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... invented imagery of Paradise Lost . But what can we make of them ? Clearly , at the level of Milton's conscious intention , little ; at the level of any knowledge he may have had of the actual biological facts concerning fertilisation ...
... invented imagery of Paradise Lost . But what can we make of them ? Clearly , at the level of Milton's conscious intention , little ; at the level of any knowledge he may have had of the actual biological facts concerning fertilisation ...
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... invented , to some extent fictive . Dante may in part be divinely led , but his earthly imagination also has its part ; his Hell , Purgatory and Heaven may often be traditional , but he has also invented much about them , and to some ...
... invented , to some extent fictive . Dante may in part be divinely led , but his earthly imagination also has its part ; his Hell , Purgatory and Heaven may often be traditional , but he has also invented much about them , and to some ...
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... invented , fictive , literary . Of course , there is the frequent suggestion that in a universe of boundless possibility , an invented world need be no less real than the one we see ; but what is at issue here is neither possibility nor ...
... invented , fictive , literary . Of course , there is the frequent suggestion that in a universe of boundless possibility , an invented world need be no less real than the one we see ; but what is at issue here is neither possibility nor ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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