Colin N. Manlove

Christian Fantasy (eBook, PDF)

From 1200 to the Present

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 1992
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781349125708
• Artikelnr.: 54172287

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; the French queste del Saint Graal; Dante - the commedia; the middle English pearl; Spenser - the faerie queene, book 1; Marlow - Dr Faustus; the metaphysical poets; Milton - paradise lost; Bunyan - the pilgrim's progress; Swedenborg - heaven and hell; Blake - the little black boy and the marriage of heaven and hell; modern Christian fantasy; George MacDonald's fairy tales; Charles Kingsley - the water babies; twentieth-century Christian fantasy; Charles Williams; C.S. Lewis; other modern Christian fantasies.