Colin N. Manlove

Christian Fantasy

From 1200 to the Present

• Broschiertes Buch

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-12572-2
• 1st ed. 1992
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781349125722
• ISBN-10: 1349125725
• Artikelnr.: 44459285

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.