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Fantasy Literature and Christianity - A Study of the Mistborn, Coldfire, Fionavar Tapestry and Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Series (Paperback)
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Fantasy Literature and Christianity - A Study of the Mistborn, Coldfire, Fionavar Tapestry and Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Series (Paperback)
Series: Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
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The on-going debate surrounding the Christian aspects of C.S.
Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the
Rings, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, and J.K. Rowling's
Harry Potter has revealed not only the prominence of religious
themes in fantasy fiction, but also the readers' concern over the
portrayal of religion in fantasy. Yet while the works of Lewis,
Tolkien, Pullman, and Rowling have been discussed in excess, other
fantasy series have so far received markedly less attention. Thus,
the following book offers a critical study of the fantastic
religions and religious themes present in the works of selected
American and Canadian writers: Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of
Thomas Covenant, Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry, Celia S.
Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy, and Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn
series. The aim of the proposed study is to reveal and investigate
these series' references to biblical tradition and Christian
teachings in order to examine their overall approach to
Christianity and to comment on the relationship between
Christianity and the fantasy genre. The study is conducted in
reference to the theories and methods designed by the discipline of
the phenomenology of religion.
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