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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... matter of the moral imagination in Chapter I. The fragment of the fourth Ransom novel, the “scientifictional” time-travel novel published by Walter Hooper as The Dark Tower, we are considering as intended, first, to be part of such a ...
... matters we are discussing here, if our purpose is to set out something of the genre in which Lewis was writing, to ... matter of Englishness. A. Kind. of. Englishness. We tend to think of pageants as plays—the medieval mystery or miracle ...
... matter of birth. Swift had it too, in full measure, and Swift was Irish. Gavin Douglas had it (Lewis's own example in English Literature in the Sixteenth Century), and Douglas was Scots. It is a matter of the didactic purpose of art and ...
... matter of Lewis and Irishness I am taking up in my introduction and notes to an edition of a brief account of his father's language patterns—one might say, his father's dicta—that Lewis and his brother, W. H. Lewis, compiled in ¡922 ...
... matter of his temporal salvation, as the bridge for our return to the realms we know. Here an underlying theme is ordinariness and all four parts have (mostly) a quotidian academic nature, though rich and strange are the clothes in the ...
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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 |