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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... nature of fantasy, this book is designed to provide a kind of key to Lewis, the nature of science fiction, and his (and its) place in English literary history, though concentrating on one particular type. That type is what I have called ...
... nature — before the great divide into fantasy and science fiction, as the eighteenth century came before the great divide into romance and novel. When I began writing this book, academic titles with the colon were popular and becoming ...
... nature. That too is part of pastoral. And that is part of the way this all comes together. The flood in Sir Gibbie, “up Daurside,” the great storm (hurricane) in Handley Cross, the malevolence of the willows 10 The Scientifiction Novels ...
... nature. Almost it is nature asserting control over man. But there is an order in it, a pattern, a mythos, that the ancients expressed with their naiads and dryads and their shepherds of Arcady. Arcady is ordered, and when the order is ...
... nature and of the permanent things: “The moral order is perceived to be something larger than the circumstances of ... nature, and to raise it to dignity in our estimation.' “Drawn from centuries of human experience, these ideas ... are ...
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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 |