Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-228) and index.
Contents:
Philip Pullman : a biographical note. Mary Harris Russell -- Reading fantasy, figuring human nature. Reading His dark materials / Lauren Shohet -- Second nature : daemons and ideology in The golden compass / Maude Hines -- Dyads or triads? His dark materials and the structure of the human / Lisa Hopkins -- Northern lights and northern readers : background knowledge, affect linking, and literary understanding / Margaret Mackey -- Intertextuality and revamping traditions. Pullman's His dark materials, a challenge to the fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, with an epilogue on Pullman's neo-romantic reading of Paradise lost / Burton Hatlen -- Pullman's enigmatic ontology : revamping old traditions in His dark materials / Carole Scott -- "Without Lyra we would understand neither the New nor the Old Testament" : exegesis, allegory, and reading The golden compass / Shelley King -- Rouzing the faculties to act : Pullman's Blake for children / Susan Matthews -- Tradition, transformation, and the bold emergence : fantastic legacy and Pullman's His dark materials / Karen Patricia Smith -- Pullman and theology, Pullman and science fiction. "And he's a-going to destroy him" : religious subversion in Pullman's His dark materials / Bernard Schweizer -- Rediscovering faith through science fiction : Pullman's His dark materials / Andrew Leet -- Circumventing the grand narrative : dust as an alternative theological vision in Pullman's His dark materials / Anne-Marie Bird -- Unexpected allies? Pullman and the feminist theologians / Pat Pinsent -- "Eve, again! Mother Eve!" : Pullman's Eve variations / Mary Harris Russell -- Philip Pullman : a biographical note.
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