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"Without Contraries Is No Progression": Dust as an All-Inclusive, Multifunctional Metaphor in Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials."
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Bird, Anne-Marie – Children's Literature in Education, 2001
Draws on Milton's "Paradise Lost" and on motifs found within Gnostic mythology and the poetry of William Blake to explore how Philip Pullman reworks the Judeo-Christian myth of the Fall in his trilogy, "His Dark Materials." Finds at its center "Dust": a conventional metaphor for human physicality in which good and evil, and spirit and matter…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, English Instruction, Fantasy, Higher Education