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| Genre/Form: | Handbooks, manuals, etc |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Philip Pullman; Philip Pullman; Philip Pullman; Philip Pullman |
| Material Type: | Juvenile audience, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Claire Squires |
| ISBN: | 9780826427649 0826427642 0826417167 9780826417169 |
| OCLC Number: | 70158423 |
| Notes: | A comprehensive study of Philip Pullman, with focus on the contexts, sources, influences and controversies of the His dark materials trilogy. |
| Description: | x, 214 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Pullman the man -- Stories of multiple worlds -- Politics and morality -- Telling stories -- Intertextuality -- What type of story is His Dark Materials? -- Other stories -- Conclusion: Pullman the master storyteller. |
| Responsibility: | Claire Squires. |
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"Claire Squires's Philip Pullman, Master Storyteller: A Guide to the Worlds of His Dark Materials is a significantly re-envisioned as well as updated version of an earlier Pullman guide that she published in 2003 (Philip Pullmans' His Dark Materials Trilogy: A Reader's Guide, also through Continuum)...In this latest guide, we are granted a guided tour of key issues that have been raised in the assessment of Pullman's trilogy b fans, scholars, journalists, social respondents, and Pullman himself...Consider its range of coverage: The guide addresses all of the major questions currently on the map about His Dark Materials...She provides a treatment of the major symbolic aspects of Pullmans' fantasy as well, explaining daemons, the alethiometer, dust, witches, armored polar bears, the subtle knife, multiple worlds, and so on...For further exploration, in addition to the cited works Squires has even provided recommendations for further reading, Web sites and online resources, and a full index. Given the guide's readable and fast-moving prose to boot, I'll go so far as to say that, as a first dip into the growing critical pool of commentary on His Dark Materials, popular or scholarly, readers can do no better." -Kelly Searsmith, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 18.3 Read more...
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