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Leland Ryken

“It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.”

Leland Ryken, Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective
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Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective (Wheaton Literary Series) Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective by Leland Ryken
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