| Description |
xi, 242 pages |
| Series |
Landscapes of childhood |
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Landscapes of childhood.
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| Contents |
Awakening to the twenty-first century : the evolution of human consciousness in Pullman's His dark materials / Millicent Lenz -- Reading His dark materials / Lauren Shohet -- Second nature : daemons and ideology in The golden compass / Maude Hines -- Dyads or triads? His dark materials and the structure of the human / Lisa Hopkins -- Northern lights and northern readers : background knowledge, affect linking, and literary understanding / Margaret Mackey -- 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 / Burton Hatlen -- Pullman's enigmatic ontology : revamping old traditions in His dark materials / Carole Scott -- "Without Lyra we would understand neither the New nor the Old Testament" : exegesis, allegory, and reading The golden compass / Shelley King -- Rouzing the faculties to act : Pullman's Blake for children / Susan Matthews -- Tradition, transformation, and the bold emergence : fantastic legacy and Pullman's His dark materials / Karen Patricia Smith -- "And he's a-going to destroy him" : religious subversion in Pullman's His dark materials / Bernard Schweizer -- Rediscovering faith through science fiction : Pullman's His dark materials / Andrew Leet -- Circumventing the grand narrative : dust as an alternative theological vision in Pullman's His dark materials / Anne-Marie Bird -- Unexpected allies? Pullman and the feminist theologians / Pat Pinsent -- "Eve, again! Mother Eve!" : Pullman's Eve variations / Mary Harris Russell -- Philip Pullman : a biographical note |
| Summary |
British author Philip Pullman's celebrated trilogy for young readers, His Dark Materials (Northern Lights/Golden Compass (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997), The Amber Spyglass (2000)), has reached a broad spectrum of readers, from those appreciating his metaphysical imagination and literary depth to those charmed by his suspenseful and emotional storytelling. Pullman's trilogy is distinguished not only for its narrative and poetic power but also for its awareness of literary tradition. His Dark Materials confronts some of the most urgent dilemmas of our time without suggesting answers but rather a way of meeting them with courage and surviving them with grace. Edited by Millicent Lenz renowned for her study of Pullman's work this is the first book to place His Dark Materials in critical perspective. The fourteen diverse essays within offer literary and historical analysis as well as approaches from such disciplines as theology, storytelling, and linguistics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Pullman, Philip, 1946- His dark materials.
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Pullman, Philip, 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Young adult fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Author |
Lenz, Millicent, editor
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Scott, Carole, editor
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| LC no. |
2004029438 |
| ISBN |
0814332072 (paperback; alk. paper) |
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9780814332078 (paperback; alk. paper) |
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