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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... di›erent books I have published or republished over the last two years based on a view of the work of each of three authors, Charles Williams, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis, that runs counter to the idea that they wrote the same ...
... di›erent form as “Prolegomena to a Study of C. S. Lewis's Arcadian Science Fiction: How Would The Dark Tower Have Come Out?” in Extrapolation, 4¡, no. 2 [2000], pp. ¡75–¡96.) I have in the past suggested that—even though spoken of as ...
... di›erent point—a highly valid point, and a point made in reviews and lectures with considerable skill and knowledge by my friend, Professor Claude Rawson. As that eighteenth-century man, he might be expected to write in something like ...
... di›erent kind of interaction from man's asserting control over nature. Almost it is nature asserting control over man. But there is an order in it, a pattern, a mythos, that the ancients expressed with their naiads and dryads and their ...
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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 |