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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... moral imagination—which is part of the reason for my introducing the whole 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 ...
... moral imagination, (3) moral imagination and quality of mind and book, (4) the fairy-tale 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 ...
... imagination was schooled in the moral imagination (Burke's sense)—and it was—his books would volens-nolens point a moral. Thus, for all his denial, here I am in this book, claiming knowledge of Lewis and in some sense adding my voice to ...
... Moral. Imagination,. and. Coleridge. As I say, it has only recently occurred to me that the trilogy—either trilogy—may be a trilogia in the Greek sense. Indeed it has only been since I began re-writing this book, particularly the part on ...
... moral imagination, Burke meant “that power of ethical perception which strides beyond the barriers of private experience and events of the moment—'especially,' as the dictionary has it, 'the higher form of this power exercised in poetry ...
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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 |