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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Space and Time in the Ransom Stories Jared Lobdell. For my father and mother, Charles and Jane Hopkins Lobdell, and for my wife, Jane Starke Lobdell Acknowledgments I am indebted to my friends Walter Hooper and.
... Walter Hooper and the late Owen Barfield for their assistance with various questions over the past three decades and more. Thanks to them also in their capacity as Professor Lewis's executors, and to Professor Lewis's publishers, for ...
... Walter Hooper gave the title The Dark Tower, and to which I have given (for its hypothetically completed version) the putative title, An Exchange in Time (even, perhaps, An Exchange with Time). In Chapter III, I have ventured to suggest ...
... Walter Hooper as The Dark Tower, we are considering as intended, first, to be part of such a trilogia in the Greek sense (with Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength), then as part of an intended tetralogia (including ...
... Walter Hooper's somewhat hesitant blessing. Why is this book appearing now? Partly, of course, because I have finally finished writing it, after more than thirty years. Partly because the Ransom stories are very much the creations of ...
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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 |