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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... passage in Scott's Ivanhoe where the horizon is enlarged to include the greenwood, the landscapes of Crockett's Kit Kennedy, Country Boy and his Black Douglas, the Great War landscapes of Greenmantle, Robin Hood and the selva oscura ...
... passage from Kit Smart about God's Good Englishman? The answer to this is partly that God's Good Englishman is Elwin Ransom, not C. S. Lewis. But it is also partly that artistic “Englishness” is not a matter of birth. Swift had it too ...
... passage should guide us in determining what is the “reality” of “real life” and in seeing why Lewis preferred the dogs he knows to the hounds of heaven, kennels to labyrinths, and why he is concerned with “realising” the (apparently) ...
... passage: “The Imagination then I consider as either primary or secondary. The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition of the finite mind of the eternal act of ...
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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 |