Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9780192889317
ISBN-10:	0192889311
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen:	49 b&w illustrations
Maße:	237 x 160 x 25 mm
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.2025
Gewicht:	0,624 kg

Artikel-ID: 132570094

Über den Autor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9780192889317
ISBN-10:	0192889311
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen:	49 b&w illustrations
Maße:	237 x 160 x 25 mm
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.2025
Gewicht:	0,624 kg