"Baptist Spirituality in America, I:
Bunyanesque." Baptist Studies Bulletin.
Dedicated to the memory of Krafft-Ebing, whom Prime-Stevenson had met and been encouraged by (see Gifford, "Introduction" 25), The Intersexes serves as a kind of guidebook--a layman's sexological Pilgrim's Progress--for homosexuality (for particularly
Bunyanesque passages, see The Intersexes 5, 122).
The obvious exceptions to Lewis's antipathy towards allegory include his self-consciously
Bunyanesque first novel, The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)--which bears the unambiguous subtitle "An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason, and Romanticism"--and also The Great Divorce (1945), a somewhat more novelistic work that nevertheless belongs to the ancient genre of the dream vision, itself the major locus of allegorical narrative in the Middle Ages (Boethius's Consolatio, Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae, the Roman de la Rose, Dante's Commedia, Piers Plowman).
Positive and upbeat, Mr Bal was quite different from most other teachers who criticised 'this class' en bloc, always using the 'superlatives of inferiority'--a type Pennac, who can be quite
Bunyanesque, calls 'Mr Rebuking.'
Tye confronts the
Bunyanesque image of Paige head-on.
(24) That particular swing furthermore illustrated a Bowery B'hoy's overwhelming sense of personal independence, "that he do as he pleases and is able, under all circumstances, to take care of himself." (25) While William Poole, aka "Bill the Butcher," and heavyweight champion Tom Hyer were Bowery B'hoys, the most famous B'hoy was Mose Humphreys, whose
Bunyanesque reputation portrayed him with hands as large as Virginia ham and arms so long they dangled below his knees.
Montville's subject is John Montague, an enormously skilled--and enigmatic--golfer whose
Bunyanesque exploits at Hollywood's Lakeside Golf Club in the 1930s became the stuff of legend.
As they were 83-5 only a few overs before, you can deduce there was a collapse of
Bunyanesque scale, as a massively fired up Asim Khan bowled a marathon 18-over spell in the almost tropical heat.