Susan Redington Bobby

Beyond His Dark Materials

Innocence and Experience in the Fiction of Philip Pullman

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Produktbeschreibung

Beyond the His Dark Materials series lies a vast fictional realm populated by the many diverse character creations of Philip Pullman. During a more than 30-year career, Pullman has created worlds filled with quests, trials, tragedies and triumphs, and this book explores those worlds. The picture books, novellas and novels written for children, adolescents and adults are analyzed through the themes of innocence and experience, and the journeys Pullman sets his characters on, journeys through which they learn that one must embrace change, loss and suffering to grow in wisdom and grace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780786465088
• ISBN-10: 0786465085
• Artikelnr.: 36391008

Autorenporträt

Susan Redington Bobby is an associate professor of English at Wesley College. She is the editor of Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings (McFarland, 2009), the author of Beyond His Dark Materials: Innocence and Experience in the Fiction of Philip Pullman (McFarland 2012), and the author of a critical essay in the His Dark Materials Casebook (Palgrave 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Introduction: Embracing Change, Loss and Growth on the Path from Innocence
to Experience     
Part I: Stories of Innocence: The Quest and the Path to Maturity     
1. Mossycoat, Puss in Boots and Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp: Fairy Tale
and Folktale Re-visions     
2. The Firework-Maker's Daughter and The Scarecrow and His Servant:
Quest-Driven Tales     
3. Count Karlstein, or The Ride of the Demon Huntsman: The Influence of
German Romanticism and the Gothic on an Evolving Text     
4. Spring-Heeled Jack and The New Cut Gang: Thunderbolt's Waxwork and The
Gas-Fitters' Ball: Narratives of Orphaned, Displaced, and Dispossessed
Children     
Part II: Stories of Experience: Betrayal and the Path to Maturity     
5. The Sally Lockhart Quartet: Socially-Conscious Penny Dreadfuls     
6. I Was a Rat! and How to Be Cool: The Intersection of Fantasy and Realism
Through Social Satire     
7. The Broken Bridge and The White Mercedes: The Impact of the Sins of the
Father (and Mother) in Young Adult Contemporary Novels     
8. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ: A New Path from Innocence
to Experience     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index