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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... Chapter III. But my principal debts are in my family. To my wife, Jane Starke Lobdell, I owe much for her encouragement, and her putting up with a writer-in-progress on a work-in-slow-progress. This book is dedicated to her. Finally, I ...
... Chapter III, I have ventured to suggest what might have happened with the time-fragment had Lewis finished it: I believe the venturing has improved my understanding both of the fragment and of the other books as well, by making it ...
... Chapter I, I have tried to place the four books in a context of 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 ...
... Chapter V is “Thulcandra, or Our Time under That Hideous Strength”—it covers That Hideous Strength as the final book in each or either trilogy, or the tetralogy. In the sixth chapter, I discuss Lewis's Arcadian science fiction, as a ...
... chapter on Blake (“Blake and the Flaming Line,” pp. ¡¡7–¡46). Here he is speaking of Gainsborough (p. ¡23): “What raises his portraits to the height of the best painted anywhere in Europe in the 11 I. The Ransom Stories in Their English ...
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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 |