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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... fantasy (which leads up to Ray Bradbury), and also 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 predate the divide between novel ...
... fantasy and science fiction. Science fiction stories have been described by a number of their writers as stories that would not have happened if there had not been science-induced change from present circumstances. These stories by ...
... fantasy (The Rise of Tolkienian Fantasy) provides a kind of key to both Tolkien and the nature of fantasy, this book is designed to provide a kind of key to Lewis, the nature of science fiction, and his (and its) place in English ...
... fantasy), so Lewis is to be viewed as a novelist working the vein implied by the development of character into pageant through satire—which is part of the mainstream history of the British novel, as of the development of science fiction ...
... fantasy and science fiction, as the eighteenth century came before the great divide into romance and novel. When I began writing this book, academic titles with the colon were popular and becoming more so. Thus my original title of this ...
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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 |