Shadows of Imagination, Revised: The Fantasies of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams (A Chicago Classic) - Softcover

Kreeft, Peter

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ISBN 10: 0809309084 ISBN 13: 9780809309085

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979

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Reseña del editor:

Now in its fourth printing, this standard critical anthology dealing with the big three among fantasy writers has been brought up to date through the addition of an Afterword discussing the book Tolkien considered his greatest work, the posthumously published The Sil­marillion.

 

Shadows of Imaginationconsists of essays by thirteen scholars who treat seriously the fantasies of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams have made the writing of fantasy a legitimate art. These writers, according to Mark Hillegas, editor of and contributor to this collection, have revived the ancient arts of epic and romance, have returned to the tradition created by theOdyssey, the Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, and Faust.

 

Hillegas points out that although they often are compared with science-fiction writers, Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams do not write about science, never glorify the machine; instead, they fill a void, satisfy a human longing for a “myth to bring meaning again to the universe and human existence.”

Biografía del autor:

Mark R. Hillegas is Professor of En­glish at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

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• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0809309084
• ISBN 13: 9780809309085
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
• Herausgeber: Hillegas Mark R.