Written in a colloquial style, this book is designed for the general reader, exploring seventeenth-century cultural history through the lens of Pullman's trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust. It discusses Renaissance language, literature, science, and religion as well as seventeenth-century hieroglyphics and atomic physics.
Written in a colloquial style, this book is designed for the general reader, exploring seventeenth-century cultural history through the lens of Pullman's trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust. It discusses Renaissance language, literature, science, and religion as well as seventeenth-century hieroglyphics and atomic physics.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kristen Poole is the Ned B. Allen Professor of English at the University of Delaware. She has published extensively on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, religion, and science, with particular focus on Shakespeare and Milton. She also has a keen interest in global history, and is the General Editor of the online platform Routledge Resources Online: The Renaissance World. In addition to holding an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, she has a Master of Sacred Theology degree from United Lutheran Seminary in Philadelphia, and has published a book on ethics and climate change. She lives in Philadelphia.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: All This History Around You PART 1. LANGUAGE AND MEANING A Short Introduction: What Is Truth? 1: The Alethiometer I: Allegory and Interpretation 2: The Alethiometer II: Literalism and Universal Language 3: The Language of Pictures: Dæmons and Hieroglyphs PART 2. SCIENCE A Short Introduction: Experiment and the New Science 4: Spyglasses and Other Worlds 5: The Secrets of Alchemy 6: Margaret Cavendish and the Physics of Dust: The Deepest Nature of Things PART 3. Religion A Short Introduction: Pullman and Religion 7: Angels and the War in Heaven 8: Rebelling against Authority: Satan and Asriel 9: Back to the Garden: Eve and Lyra
Introduction: All This History Around You PART 1. LANGUAGE AND MEANING A Short Introduction: What Is Truth? 1: The Alethiometer I: Allegory and Interpretation 2: The Alethiometer II: Literalism and Universal Language 3: The Language of Pictures: Dæmons and Hieroglyphs PART 2. SCIENCE A Short Introduction: Experiment and the New Science 4: Spyglasses and Other Worlds 5: The Secrets of Alchemy 6: Margaret Cavendish and the Physics of Dust: The Deepest Nature of Things PART 3. Religion A Short Introduction: Pullman and Religion 7: Angels and the War in Heaven 8: Rebelling against Authority: Satan and Asriel 9: Back to the Garden: Eve and Lyra
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