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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... given (for its hypothetically completed version) the putative title, An Exchange in Time (even, perhaps, An Exchange with Time). In Chapter III, I have ventured to suggest what might have happened with the time-fragment had Lewis ...
... given the title “Malacandra, or Space Travel Out of the Silent Planet,” and covers Out of the Silent Planet as the first book in either the trilogy that was written, or the one I believe he planned, or in the tetralogy. Chapter III ...
... given to horses, but in Scotland, supports the people.” Or “Let Paul rejoice with the scale, who is pleasant and faithful, like God's good Englishman” (and think of Eddi and Padda in Kipling's “The Conversion of St. Wilfrid”). Or ...
... Given his experiences in academe, his may be disingenuous, as we shall see from his diary, but it shows that he recognized his appeal to this moral imagination. Englishness (Pevsner's sense) strikes me as a particular form of the moral ...
... given Lewis by his friend A. K. Hamilton Jenkin. See Surprised by Joy, p. ¡99.) But if these are stories revolving around ideas and intellect, how can we look at them as character studies? I should make it clear that they are not ...
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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 |