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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... writing an adventure story in the Edwardian mode—an adventure story partaking of both pastoral and pilgrimage. And Lewis was writing satirical pageant, whose roots may lie in the medieval morality play, in Sidney and in Spenser (and ...
... writing a kind of pastoral.) Because the novel as we know it is essentially an invention of the eighteenth century ... written, or the one I believe he planned, or in the tetralogy. Chapter III, “The Dark Tower or An Exchange in Time ...
... hesitant blessing. Why is this book appearing now? Partly, of course, because I have finally finished writing it, after more than thirty years. Partly because the Ransom stories are very much the creations of one particular 5 Preface.
... writing this book, academic titles with the colon were popular and becoming more so. Thus my original title of this was God's Good Englishman: Elwin Ransom in Space and Time. Fashions change and it bears a more prosaic and less ...
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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 |