The Scientifiction Novels of C.S. Lewis: Space and Time in the Ransom StoriesMcFarland, 17 սեպ, 2014 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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... England's literary history, not so much as with The Lord of the Rings in The Rise of Tolkienian Fantasy, but more than is generally done. Chapter II is given the title “Malacandra, or Space Travel Out of the Silent Planet,” and covers ...
... England—or at least in Great Britain. It is true that, so far as we know, the last new book Lewis read was Les Liaisons Dangereuses—but that was much later, after the marriage to Joy and after W. H. Lewis became a scholar of seventeenth ...
... England, England was landfall for those who escaped the drowning of Atlantis. In that context, the Englishness of Elwin Ransom is important—and, who knows, in that context even the Irish Lewis might be taken as English. It is, after all ...
... England before the Industrial Revolution (thus eighteenth-century England), that he did perforce what he did not intend (or believe he intended) to do. He was, of course, during the war years, a preacher in the popular sense of the word ...
... England's eighteenth century. And Swift, of course. And Dr. Johnson himself. The epigraph to this book is taken from lines by poor Kit, and it may be worthwhile here to recall the Johnsonian anecdote. When the doctor was informed of the ...
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Malacandra or SpaceTravel Out of the Silent Planet | 31 |
The Dark Tower or An Exchange in Time | 57 |
Perelandra or Paradise Retained | 85 |
Lewiss Arcadian Science Fiction | 135 |
Bibliography | 183 |
Index | 191 |