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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... critical condemnation for going beyond my appointed bounds, but praemonitus praemunitus and my readers have been warned that my net here is cast wide and deep. At the same time, I do not want it thought that I believe that all forms of ...
... critical work was begun that enables us now to recognize the “fairy-tale mode” to which Lewis referred at the beginning of That Hideous Strength and in which, indeed, all four novels are written, though in a rationalized faerie—but ...
... critical look not only at the finished novels, but at the unfinished fragment. And I have already heard the suggestion that my taking it on myself to change Walter Hooper's title and to suggest what Lewis would have written are ...
... critical parlance) novel and romance separated. And it is this same interaction that produces science fiction, so our study here may illuminate that genre or subgenre. Also, as we suggested earlier, the phenomenon of the pictorial ...
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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 |