The Scientifiction Novels of C.S. Lewis: Space and Time in the Ransom StoriesMcFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 15 հլս, 2004 թ. - 204 էջ Used by C.S. Lewis himself, the term "scientifiction" is revived here as it once encompassed not only what we call science fiction, but also that indeterminate field of the 1940s and 1950s sometimes referred to as science fantasy (leading up to Ray Bradbury), along with a portion of that great realm that has come, since the advent of The Lord of the Rings, to be called fantasy. Rather as an eighteenth-century novel may pre-date the divide between novel and romance, so C.S. Lewis's "interplanetary" novels may be considered to pre-date the modern divide between fantasy and science fiction and thus be thought of as "scientifictional" in nature. The stories dealt with are those in which Elwin Ransom is a character, the three usually called the "space trilogy": Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength--and the time-fragment entitled The Dark Tower. Lengthy chapters are devoted to each of the four Ransom stories. The book presents a study of Lewis, the nature of science fiction, the nature of Lewis's "Arcadian" science fiction and his (and its) place in English literary history. |
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... certainly and obviously true , and that fact may indeed be tied to the greater theolog- ical content of the book , as Lewis suggested . But I doubt it is very much tied to differences in tone - they are essentially the differences ...
... certainly far from what Lewis ( in That Hideous Strength ) speaks of as the " sweet Protestant " world of John Bun- yan . " Sweets to the sweet " doubtless — but it would not be my choice of - phrasing , and Lewis's emulation of Bunyan ...
... Certainly Defoe ( in Robinson Crusoe ) added much in the way of cor- roborative detail not strictly required by the story : he was far from fol- lowing that Chekhovian economy of line whereby a gun hung above the mantel must go off ...
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Acknowledgments | 1 |
The Ransom Stories in Their English Literary Context | 7 |
Malacandra or SpaceTravel Out of the Silent Planet | 31 |
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