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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... course, not to be denied. There have been, indeed, other forms of syncretism. One, from our Renaissance but bearing a considerable resemblance to this twentieth-century form, is provided by Sir Philip Sidney in what we may call Arcadian ...
... course of the book (such as Ransom as philologist in Out of the Silent Planet or the economics of Distributism in That Hideous Strength); a nexus between the opening rooted in daily life and the perilous realms of the spirit to which ...
... course, the eighteenth century was not the principal subject of his scholarship. That he was an eighteenth-century man is quite a di›erent point—a highly valid point, and a point made in reviews and lectures with considerable skill and ...
... course, eighteenth-century men were not confined to the eighteenth century. They did not read only eighteenth-century literature. They also (Dr. Johnson being the indication) read Shakespeare and Sidney and Spenser—and (Bishop Percy ...
... course—our present subject of study. Now it may be said that surely any story takes place in some surroundings, and if the surroundings are those of the countryside, is that all we need to have a pastoral? Even a pilgrimage must take ...
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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 |