His dark materials illuminated
Subtitle: critical essays on Philip Pullman's trilogy
By: edited by Millicent Lenz with Carole Scott.
Contributors: Lenz, Millicent.; Scott, Carole.
Series: Landscapes of childhood
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Pullman, Philip, 1946-; Young adult fiction, English -- History and criticism.; Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Awakening to the twenty-first century : the evolution of human consciousness in Pullman's His dark materials / Millicent Lenz; title: Reading His dark materials / Lauren Shohet; title: Second nature : daemons and ideology in The golden compass / Maude Hines; title: Dyads or triads? His dark materials and the structure of the human / Lisa Hopkins; title: Northern lights and northern readers : background knowledge, affect linking, and literary understanding / Margaret Mackey; title: 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; title: Pullman's enigmatic ontology : revamping old traditions in His dark materials / Carole Scott; title: "Without Lyra we would understand neither the New nor the Old Testament" : exegesis, allegory, and reading The golden compass / Shelley King; title: Rouzing the faculties to act : Pullman's Blake for children / Susan Matthews; title: Tradition, transformation, and the bold emergence : fantastic legacy and Pullman's His dark materials / Karen Patricia Smith; title: "And he's a-going to destroy him" : religious subversion in Pullman's His dark materials / Bernard Schweizer; title: Rediscovering faith through science fiction : Pullman's His dark materials / Andrew Leet; title: Circumventing the grand narrative : dust as an alternative theological vision in Pullman's His dark materials / Anne-Marie Bird; title: Unexpected allies? Pullman and the feminist theologians / Pat Pinsent; title: "Eve, again! Mother Eve!" : Pullman's Eve variations / Mary Harris Russell; title: Philip Pullman : a biographical note.