Deterritorializing the 'Kingdom' in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.
The paper analyzes Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials through a Deleuze and Guattarian lens, reading it as a utopian imaginary that attempts to provide an alternate vision of the world. Acclaimed to be a path-breaking work, the trilogy transcends traditional genre classification by addressi...
| Publicado en: | IUP Journal of English Studies Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 76 - 91 |
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