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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... pageant, whose roots may lie in the medieval morality play, in Sidney and in Spenser (and thus in the obscure literary form of pastoral), and whose nearer ancestors may be found in the eighteenth century. But I would claim, and this ...
... pageant and pastoral is the broad area of literature—call it the genre if you will—of which science-fiction is the modern subgenre. The Ransom stories are inspired by “scientifiction,” and may be considered as science fiction, but in my ...
... pageant through satire—which is part of the mainstream history of the British novel, as of the development of science fiction. (Though he is nonetheless writing a kind of pastoral.) Because the novel as we know it is essentially an ...
... pageant and pastoral as — in sum — Arcadian science fiction. And I suggest that the fairy-tale mode informing both the Arcadian pattern of pageant and the Arcadian epic tracing its roots to Sannazaro and Heliodorus makes this Arcadian ...
... pageant, pastoral, and pilgrimage, and all may be said to take the scenic route. They seem to be related, but what can we say—in our context here—about the relation? The figures in a pageant are usually stock figures—attitudes in fancy ...
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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 |