Christian Fantasy

From 1200 to the Present

Colin N. Manlove (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

356 Seiten

1992 | 1st ed. 1992
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-12572-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.02.2016
• Zusatzinfo: X, 356 p.
• Verlagsort: Basingstoke
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 216 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-349-12572-5 / 1349125725
• ISBN-13: 978-1-349-12572-2 / 9781349125722
• Zustand: Neuware