Philip Pullman, Master Storyteller A Guide to the Worlds of His Dark Materials

by Squires, Claire

• ISBN13: 9780826417169
• ISBN10: 0826417167
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Philip Pullman's bestselling and critically acclaimed His Dark Materials trilogy has been an international success, eliciting rapturous responses from fans and critics, but also provoking critical debate and controversy. Philip Pullman, Master Storyteller is a major study of Pullman's writing. Claire Squires, one of Pullman's most acclaimed critics, assesses the trilogy's thematic treatment of politics and science, as well as the religious controversy caused by its publication. She considers in depth Pullman's development of storytelling both as a theme and as a form of morality in the trilogy, and examines His Dark Materials' intertextuality and the ways in which it plays with genre. A lengthy biographical section develops links between Pullman the man and his writing.

Author Biography

Claire Squires is Senior Lecturer in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(14)
1. Pullman the Man	15	(16)
2. Stories of Multiple Worlds	31	(25)
3. Politics and Morality	56	(34)
4. Telling Stories	90	(25)
5. Intertextuality	115	(23)
6. What Type of Story Is His Dark Materials?	138	(11)
7. Other Stories	149	(36)
Conclusion: Pullman the Master Storyteller	185	(4)
Bibliography and Further Reading	189	(18)
Index	207