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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... importance in considering the relationship between the time-fragment (The Dark Tower) and Tolkien's The Notion Club Papers (now published in Christopher Tolkien, ed., The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. IX, ¡992, pp. ¡45–330). With his ...
... important—and, who knows, in that context even the Irish Lewis might be taken as English. It is, after all, the Celtic imram that lies at the roots of Tolkien's Numénor and Eressëa, and when Tolkien sought a mythology for England he ...
... important, he was denying he wrote in order to preach the Christian gospel, except, of course, when he was avowedly doing so (as in Narnia): his novels are not intended as apologetics. Yes, he preaches a moral code. No, he did not ...
... importance in Lewis—but one of the ideas is the importance of “ordinariness” and the “quiddity” of things. (It will be remembered that the appreciation of the “quiddity” of things was a gift given Lewis by his friend A. K. Hamilton ...
... important in That Hideous Strength (whatever may be the case in the other novels)—that his character can reasonably be made the centerpiece of a book, even one as short as this. I disagree. Ransom is indeed the unifying element. Even ...
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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 |