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Toward Other Worlds: Perspectives on John Milton, C. S. Lewis, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, and Others

Michael R. Collings

First published 2010
Publisher Borgo Press / Wildside Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Angela Harburn
Pages 309
Price $16.99
ISBN 9781434457929

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9 Introduction (Toward Other Worlds) Michael R. Collings Essay
13 The Persistence of Darkness Michael R. Collings Essay
25 Quantum Memories: Notes Toward an Anti-Definition of Science Fiction Poetry Michael R. Collings Essay
35 Writing the Fantastic and Religion: Some Ruminations on the Roles of Poetry Michael R. Collings Essay
47 Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror in Paradise Lost: "And on His Crest Sat Horror Plum'd" Michael R. Collings Essay
60 Rethinking "Lewis After Milton": Suggestions Concerning Religion, Science Fiction, and Poetry Michael R. Collings Essay
78 "To Be Still a Man": Abstraction and Concretion in C. S. Lewis Michael R. Collings Essay
87 C. S. Lewis and the Music of Creation Michael R. Collings Essay
92 The Mechanisms of Fantasy Michael R. Collings Essay
98 Beyond Deep Heaven: Generic Structure and Christian Message in C. S. Lewis's Ransom Novels Michael R. Collings Essay
105 Of Books and Reputations: The Confusing Cases of King, Koontz, and Others Michael R. Collings Essay
110 The Radiating Pencils of His Bones: The Poetry of Stephen King Michael R. Collings Essay
119 On Kubrick's The Shining Michael R. Collings Essay
129 Interview with Shuei Sai: The Films of Stephen King Michael R. Collings & Shuei Sai Interview
136 Considering the Stands Michael R. Collings Essay
145 Faith Within Fantasy: Stephen King, Richard Bachman, and Seventeenth-Century Devotional Poetry Michael R. Collings Essay
155 Stephen King's The Dark Tower in the Epic Tradition Michael R. Collings Essay
165 Christ-Figures in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card Michael R. Collings Essay
174 The Rational and the Revelatory in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card Michael R. Collings Essay
185 Literary Heroism in the Works of Orson Scott Card Michael R. Collings Essay
195 The Story That Binds Them Together: Orson Scott Card's The Folk of the Fringe and the Structure of the Medieval Mystery Cycles Michael R. Collings Essay
206 Orson Scott Card and Mythopoeic Fiction Michael R. Collings Essay
227 The Epic of Ender Michael R. Collings Essay
244 Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show: Realism in Horror Fiction Michael R. Collings Essay
259 Who Is Billy Jones?: Some Suggestions Toward an Understanding Michael R. Collings Essay
263 An Essay into LDS Writers and the Fantastic Michael R. Collings Essay