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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... fact, these “eighteenth-century examples” of science fiction are not to our point, for in them, as in Cyrano de Bergerac's Comicall Historie of the States and Empires of the Sunne and the Moone, we have at best an accidental precursor ...
... fact an Ulsterman, and did not think of himself—so Mr. Barfield told me—as English (and I have lately written on Lewis's “Irishness”). It may well be asked, how can I use as epigraph for this book that passage from Kit Smart about God's ...
... fact, such as the passions which you actually experience, and can then invent visibilia to express them. [This is allegory.] But there is another way of using the equivalence which is almost the opposite ... which I would call ...
... fact, a poem of pure imagination—and this is Warren's point—must necessarily have a moral point, however the author (or the Muse) may choose to point the moral. Moreover, if the world is a copy, sacramentalism is precisely the right way ...
... fact, in sources and analogues but in quality of mind and the kind of book being written that the appeal to the age of Johnson (or of Swift) is made in the pages following. Moreover, it was in the eighteenth century that the first ...
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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 |