His Dark Materials Illuminated Critical Essays on Philip Pullman's Trilogy

Name: His Dark Materials Illuminated Critical Essays on Philip Pullman's Trilogy
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ISBN: 9780814332078

ISBN-10: 0814332072

ISBN-13: 9780814332078

Edition: 2005

Authors: Millicent Lenz, Carole Scott

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British author Philip Pullman's trilogy 'His Dark Materials' confronts some of the most urgent dilemmas of our time. These fourteen diverse essays offer literary and historical analysis as well as approaches from such disciplines as theology, storytelling, and linguistics.

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Editor's Note


Introduction: Awakening to the Twenty-first Century: The Evolution of Human Consciousness in Pullman's His Dark Materials




Reading Fantasy, Figuring Human Nature



Reading Dark Materials




Second Nature: Daemons and Ideology in The Golden Compass




Dyads or Triads? His Dark Materials and the Structure of the Human




Northern Lights and Northern Readers: Background Knowledge, Affect Linking, and Literary Understanding




Intertextuality and Revamping Traditions



Pullman's His Dark Materials, a Challenge to the Fantasies of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, with an Epilogue on Pullman's Neo-Romantic Reading of Paradise Lost




Pullman's Enigmatic Ontology: Revamping Old Traditions in His Dark Materials




"Without Lyra we would understand neither the New nor the Old Testament": Exegesis, Allegory, and Reading The Golden Compass




Rouzing the Faculties to Act: Pullman's Blake for Children




Tradition, Transformation, and the Bold Emergence: Fantastic Legacy and Pullman's His Dark Materials




Pullman and Theology, Pullman and Science Fiction



"And He's A-Going to Destroy Him": Religious Subversion in Pullman's His Dark Materials




Rediscovering Faith through Science Fiction: Pullman's His Dark Materials




Circumventing the Grand Narrative: Dust as an Alternative Theological Vision in Pullman's His Dark Materials




Unexpected Allies? Pullman and the Feminist Theologians




"Eve, Again! Mother Eve!": Pullman's Eve Variations



Philip Pullman: A Biographical Note


Works by Philip Pullman


Further Reading


Contributors


Index