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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... mode—an adventure story partaking of both pastoral and pilgrimage. And Lewis was writing satirical pageant, whose roots may lie in the medieval morality play, in Sidney and in Spenser (and thus in the obscure literary form of pastoral) ...
... mode informing both the Arcadian pattern of pageant and the Arcadian epic tracing its roots to Sannazaro and Heliodorus makes this Arcadian science fiction a somewhat more complex thing than Blish's (or Frye's) ironic and hivernal ...
... mode, and in some ways he did. But to speak of “writing in an eighteenth-century mode” is about as useful, without further definition, as speaking, without further definition, of “writing in a twentieth-century mode.” The first includes ...
... mode (which says something about both quality of mind and of book). Before we go further, we might perhaps pause to consider a question. Why are these the matters we are discussing here, if our purpose is to set out something of the ...
... mode of the preaching is the detailed observation of the minutiae of daily life. Let me give some examples of the kind of thing I am talking about here, choosing from Lewis the critic of medieval literature. He praises the poet ...
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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 |