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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... (certainly above The Lord of the Rings), an Inklings creation. Moreover, the Inklings—Oxford-connected men meeting in Lewis's rooms and at the Eagle and Child (“Bird and Baby”)—were essentially Lewis's creation, a point generally ...
... certainly Coleridge and Wordsworth separately. The key is that Lewis had a strong and wonderful capacity for visualizing from books as well as learning from books. Moreover, the books that were the greatest aid in the visualizing they ...
... certainly a major point of distinction. It may be suggested that artistic “Englishness”—so well adapted to pageant (as in Lewis's science fiction)—will be adapted to pilgrimage only when there is judgment, which is when types are raised ...
... certainly come from the interplay of a child's mispronunciation of laboratory as bubble-tree, with the trees bubbling with fragrant exhalations in the Third Heaven of The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (letter CSL to the author, 22 ...
... certainly rooted in the eighteenth century. This may be somewhat round-about, inasmuch as Lewis's mentor here is neither Burke nor Coleridge—rather Owen Barfield. But I am looking at original, not proximate origins, the common ...
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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 |