His dark materials illuminated
| Titel: | His dark materials illuminated : critical essays on Philip Pullman's trilogy / ed. by Millicent Lenz ... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Detroit : Wayne State Univ. Press, 2005 |
| Umfang: | XI, 242 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Landscapes of childhood |
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| ISBN: | 0814332072 ; 9780814332078 |
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| Lokale Klassifikation: | Sekundärliteratur |
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Editor's Note
- p. xi
- Introduction: Awakening to the Twenty-first Century: The Evolution of Human Consciousness in Pullman's His Dark Materials
- p. 1
- I
- Reading Fantasy, Figuring Human Nature
- 1
- Reading Dark Materials
- p. 22
- 2
- Second Nature: Daemons and Ideology in The Golden Compass
- p. 37
- 3
- Dyads or Triads? His Dark Materials and the Structure of the Human
- p. 48
- 4
- Northern Lights and Northern Readers: Background Knowledge, Affect Linking, and Literary Understanding
- p. 57
- II
- Intertextuality and Revamping Traditions
- 5
- 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
- p. 75
- 6
- Pullman's Enigmatic Ontology: Revamping Old Traditions in His Dark Materials
- p. 95
- 7
- "Without Lyra we would understand neither the New nor the Old Testament": Exegesis, Allegory, and Reading The Golden Compass
- p. 106
- 8
- Rouzing the Faculties to Act: Pullman's Blake for Children
- p. 125
- 9
- Tradition, Transformation, and the Bold Emergence: Fantastic Legacy and Pullman's His Dark Materials
- p. 135
- III
- Pullman and Theology, Pullman and Science Fiction
- 10
- "And He's A-Going to Destroy Him": Religious Subversion in Pullman's His Dark Materials
- p. 160
- 11
- Rediscovering Faith through Science Fiction: Pullman's His Dark Materials
- p. 174
- 12
- Circumventing the Grand Narrative: Dust as an Alternative Theological Vision in Pullman's His Dark Materials
- p. 188
- 13
- Unexpected Allies? Pullman and the Feminist Theologians
- p. 199
- 14
- "Eve, Again! Mother Eve!": Pullman's Eve Variations
- p. 212
- Philip Pullman: A Biographical Note
- p. 223
- Works by Philip Pullman
- p. 225
- Further Reading
- p. 227
- Contributors
- p. 229
- Index
- p. 233