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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... perhaps, An Exchange with Time). In Chapter III, I have ventured to suggest what might have happened with the time-fragment had Lewis finished it: I believe the venturing has improved my understanding both of the fragment and of the ...
... perhaps third in the tetralogy). Chapter V is “Thulcandra, or Our Time under That Hideous Strength”—it covers That Hideous Strength as the final book in each or either trilogy, or the tetralogy. In the sixth chapter, I discuss Lewis's ...
... -century strangeness of Kit Smart's Jubilate Agno, and that is fitting, proper, and—I believe—illustrative. Jared Lobdell Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania June 2004 I The Ransom Stories in Their English Literary Context Perhaps 6 Preface.
... Perhaps it would be well to begin with some ways in which Lewis's work is linked with the eighteenth century, before looking at those before and after, I am no expert in eighteenth-century English literature—cer- tainly not so much an ...
... 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 genre in which Lewis was writing, to which, if you like (remembering his words in the Preface to ...
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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 |