<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Andy Robertson <<a href="mailto:andywrobertson@clara.co.uk">andywrobertson@clara.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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In earlier days here I mooted the concept of "Catholic fantabulation" - a type of fantastic fiction that descended from the Christianised paganism of the Catholic church's worldview, rather than via Wells from the secular protestantism-dying-into-atheism of mainstream Western society. <br>
Other members of this group of writers (apart from Wolfe) would include the Inklings (Lewis, Tolkien, etc), Chesterton, Lafferty, and also their ideological opponents like Pullman and Blish (because opposition is a tribute: it's parodic deconstruction that kills, something that those who puffed THE GOLDEN COMPASS as a counterweight to the Narnia films signally failed to understand). <br>
Crowley would make the cut since his best work is based on modernized takes of the medaeval/Catholic cosmology. <br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>"Catholic fantabulation," huh? I was actual thinking of doing something similar (which I'd planned to call the "Catholic fantastic") for a senior thesis. I don't think that's going to be my topic, but it's still something I'm interested in, and I didn't know about Wright before, so I'll have to look him up.<br>
<br>-Matt<br></div></div><br>