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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... thought that I believe that all forms of popular or formula fiction are pretty much the same thing. Indeed, this is one of several very di›erent books I have published or republished over the last two years based on a view of the work ...
... , be part of the fundamental argument of the book. Mr. Barfield has convincingly argued (What Coleridge Thought, ¡97¡, ch. ¡ and 2) that Coleridge was essentially concerned with 20 The Scientifiction Novels of C. S. Lewis.
... Thought, pp. 64–67), so that the centrifugal force of sensibility is simply a particular perspective on the centripetal inward-directed imagination, a kind of “separative projection.” That is, sensibility — directed outward —is a way of ...
... thought hard before he published it. I know that MacPhee in The Dark Tower di›ers (not for the better) from MacPhee in That Hideous Strength, and that Lewis used bits and pieces of the unfinished work in the finished (or even of the ...
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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 |