tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247216777605704.post996208791276494958..comments2023-04-05T08:04:07.514-04:00Comments on Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2012.07.25Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247216777605704.post-71629020105057681742012-07-20T06:51:10.757-04:002012-07-20T06:51:10.757-04:00"Vaclavik opens her rich and persuasive study..."Vaclavik opens her rich and persuasive study by meditating upon the fate of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, which has suffered from a lack of critical attention precisely because it has been branded 'children's literature'." - Pullman's trilogy has not at all suffered from a lack of critical attention. There are a great may articles and monographs on "His Dark Materials" from children's literature scholars as well as physicists and many others. Just because classicists tend to ignore children's literature does not mean others do not take it into account either.<br />Please see below for evidence.<br />A. Blumer<br /><br />Bird, Anne-Marie: „Without Contraries there is no Progression“; Dust as an All-Inclusive, Multifunctional Metaphor in Philip Pullmans ‘His Dark Materi-als’“. In: Children’s Literature in Education, Vol. 32, No. 2 2001, S. 111-123.<br />Davis, Robert A.: „Dust, Daemons and Deicide: Pullman’s Theologies of Child-hood“. In: Bradford, Clare/Coghlan, Valerie: Expectations and Experiences: Children, Childhood and Children’s Literature. Lichfield: Pied Piper Publis-hing 2007, S. 122-134.<br />Kölzer, Christian: „Warum Erwachsene ‚Jugendbücher‘ lesen dürfen - und anders-herum! Dual address in Philip Pullmans Fantasy-Trilogie His Dark Materi-als.“. In: Maren Bonacker (Hrsg.): Peter Pans Kinder. Doppelte Adressiert-heit in phantastischen Texten. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2004, S. 16-26.<br />Kölzer, Christian: ‚Fairy Tales are more than true’. Das mythische und neomythi-sche Weldeutungspotential der Fantasy am Beispiel von J.R.R. Tolkiens Lord of the Rings und Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials. Trier: WVT 2008.<br />Payne, Max: „Science and Spirituality in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials”. In: Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Marek Oziewicz (Hrsg.): Towards or Back to Human Values. Spiritual and Moral Dimensions of Contemporary Fantasy. Cambridge: Scholars Press 2006, S. 2-16.<br />Reynolds, Kimberley: „His Dark Materials in Performance: Finding a Balance bet-ween Heritage and Mass Media". In: Fiona M. Collins/Jeremy Ridgman (Hrsg.): Turning the Page - Children's Literature in Performance and the Media. Bern: Peter Lang AG 2006, S. 185-197.<br />Squires, Claire: Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials Trilogy. A Reader’s Guide. New York: Continuum 2003.<br />Stenzel, Gudrun: „Jugendliche Erlöser – Religiöse Themen, Stoffe und Motive in der fantastischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur“. In: Heumann, Jürgen (Hrsg.): Über Gott und die Welt. Religion, Sinn und Werte im Kinder- und Jugendbuch. Frankfurt/M: Peter Lang: 2005, S. 177-200.<br /><br />... and many more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com