Philip Pullman, Master Storyteller

A Guide to the Worlds of His Dark Materials
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-1716-9
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 291 g

The book informs readers about the contexts, sources and influences behind the trilogy, and examines the controversies and debates that have surrounded the trilogy and its creator, since its publication.

- The first full-length guide to Philip Pullman's hugely popular trilogy of fantasy novels.
- Soon to be turned into epic films by New Line Cinema, makers of the Lord of the Rings movies.

Philip Pullman is one of the most commercially and critically successful British authors of the past decade. With a writing career extending back to the early 1970s, Pullman's great achievement has been in the publication of the His Dark Materials trilogy: Northern Lights (1995; US title The Golden Compass), The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber Spyglass (2000). With these novels, which have appealed equally to children and to adults, Pullman has carved a space for himself as a writer of moral seriousness, imaginative depth and storytelling virtuosity.

Claire Squires' book is the first comprehensive and authoritative study of this great writer. The focus is on Pullman's central achievement with His Dark Materials, but it also considers his entire oeuvre. Importantly, the book informs readers about the contexts, sources and influences behind the trilogy, and examines the controversies and debates that have surrounded the trilogy and its creator, since its publication.

Zielgruppe

General

Autoren/Hrsg.

Squires, Claire

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Philip Pullman and His Dark Materials
Chapter 1: Pullman the Man
Chapter 2: Stories of Multiple Worlds
Chapter 3: Politics and Storytelling
Chapter 4: Telling Stories
Chapter 5: Intertextuality
Chapter 6: What Type of Story is His Dark Materials?
Chapter 7: Other Stories
Conclusion: Pullman the Storyteller
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Claire Squires is based at the University of Oxford, and also teaches at Oxford Brookes University. She previously worked at Hodder and Stoughton Publishers.