Beyond His Dark Materials: Innocence and Experience in the Fiction of Philip Pullman

By Susan Redington Bobby

Beyond the His Dark Materials series lies a vast fictional realm populated by the many diverse character creations of Philip Pullman. During a more than 30-year career, Pullman has created worlds filled with quests, trials, tragedies and triumphs, and this book explores those worlds. The picture books, novellas and novels written for children, adolescents and adults are analyzed through the themes of innocence and experience. The journeys Pullman sets his characters on teach them that one must embrace change, loss and suffering to grow in wisdom and grace.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786465085
• ISBN13: 9780786465088
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher