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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... less colonized title, but I could not forbear to keep the original epigraph, because it links that eighteenth-century man, Clive Staples Lewis, with the very eighteenth-century strangeness of Kit Smart's Jubilate Agno, and that is ...
... less so than his father's (which is part of the misunderstandings revealed in Pudaita Pie). And it occurs to me that one of the principal di›erences between Irish English and what I guess we would call English English is that in Irish ...
... less of the “real” as we generally understand that word. Finally, the scenes and themes I have concentrated on in That Hideous Strength are (¡) the beginning, including the satiric portrait of intellectual or academic bureaucracy and ...
... less than the others, is a novel of ideas: moreover, it requires some kind of putative finishing-o› fully to see the ideas and the function of Ransom. I know that Walter Hooper hesitated long and thought hard before he published it. I ...
... less, though by including the fragment, we may be doing somewhat more. And we have one more point to consider before viewing the novels seriatim. The. Fairy-Tale. Mode. The fairy tale as we know it comes to us from the eighteenth century ...
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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 |